Alan Cumming Slams Obama on DADT

Actor Alan Cumming, who applied to become a United States citizen in order to vote for Barack Obama in 2008, said the president has not done enough to further gay rights in the country.

The Scottish-born actor took the president to task on "don't ask, don't tell," especially as the Justice Department is engaging in a full-on defense of the law that bars gays and lesbians from openly serving in the military.

"How can we counsel our children not to bully their gay classmates or mock their gay friends when they see their President, their beloved President Obama, refusing to do the equivalent in regards to troops and other adults?" Cumming said in a statement, according to Scotland's Herald newspaper.