Failure to protect

[Rychard the Lionheart]

Barack Obama video supports gay teenagers.

Below is extracts from the Guardian website, dated Friday 22 October 2010 08.56 BST.

It Gets Better Project receives backing of US president amid concerns over spate of gay American teenagers killing themselves

Barack Obama has released a video to draw attention to pressures facing gay teenagers, lending his weight to a campaign that has attracted more than 2,000 video contributions and 10m views on YouTube.

The campaign, prompted by a spate of gay American teenagers killing themselves in recent weeks, has also received the backing of the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, who has posted her own two-minute video.

But with the midterm elections less than two weeks away, and the Democrats facing significant losses, the administration needs to appease its liberal base and defuse anger over what some see as a betrayal of Obama's presidential election pledge to remove the restriction.

Is this just some more talk, we want action Barack Obama not words.

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