The Saturday night before the Texas Two-Step, I spent following around GLTB canvassers in the predominantly gay-district of Montrose, Houston. The very next day I spent Sunday morning at the Antioch Baptist Church, the first black Baptist church in Houston.

While the two groups may have on the surfaced seemed completely different, both were adamant Obama supporters.

On Wednesday Gov. Christine Gregoire signed a measure which extends more than 170 of the benefits given to married couples to cover domestic partnerships.

The measure adds domestic partners to sections of laws where previously only spouses were mentioned, including areas referring to probate and trusts, community property and homestead exemptions, and guardianship and powers of attorney.

The Seattle PI wrote a piece yesterday about an interview with Pastor Ken Hutcherson at his Redmond office of his Antioch church. Throughout the interview, Hutcherson remains firm on his analogy that the Bible is a playbook, and homosexuality just isn’t in it.

“Homosexuality is a sin…God hates sin,” he told the PI.

What does this all have to do with each other?

Sen. Obama is running on a message of unity. So what happens if Obama is elected president and the first piece of GLBT legislation hits his desk?

Suddenly his stance on unity begins to crumble. Either way, he’s going to upset a section of his constituency.

While Hutcherson’s view certainly doesn’t not extend to all members of the Antioch fellowship, he does have a “strong following at his Eastside megachurch, [and] millions of folks across America …share his doctrinal beliefs.” (SPI)

Likewise, all members of the GLBT community don’t support Obama. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, told me just last week, he  “was very disappointed when Barack Obama said he didn’t see any difference between civil union and marriage…to me it was very hurtful particularly coming from someone in the African American community who understands separate is not equal.”

Clinton supporters have been boisterous about the lack of real substance in Obama’s message of unity and hope. So maybe this is where it all boils down.

Obama can talk the talk, but if the American people, if his supporters don’t take this message and weave it into their own lives than that’s all it is…talk.

Obama’s serious when he says we have to be the change in Washington—he, nor anyone else, can unify the people if they don’t want to be unified.