Frank Rich, the New York Times columnist, and the civil rights lawyer, Evan Wolfson, castigate President Obama for his lack of commitment to the cause of gay equality. “This is a civil rights moment,” Wolfson said, “and Obama has not yet risen to it.” Frank Rich elaborates even further. “Worse, Obama’s opposition to same-sex marriage is now giving cover to every hard-core opponent of gay rights, from the Miss USA contestant Carrie Prejean to the former Washington mayor Marion Barry, each of whom can claim with nominal justification to share the president’s views. The gay civil rights movement has fewer obstacles in its path than did Dr. King’s Herculean mission to overthrow the singular legacy of slavery. That makes it all the more shameful that it has fewer courageous allies in Washington than King did. If “American Idol” can sing out for change on Fox in prime time, it ill becomes Obama, of all presidents, to remain mute in the White House. ” Wolfson reminds us that Dr. Martin Luther King addressed such dawdling in 1963. “For years now I have heard the word ‘Wait,’ ” King wrote. “It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This ‘Wait’ has almost always meant ‘Never.’ ” (via New York Times)