Jophiel wrote:
gbaji wrote:
It's pretty much his mission to out gay conservatives who oppose his view of what gay rights should entail.
Per your link, it's not his mission to "out gay conservatives", he outs "those he considers to be closeted gay politicians".
How do you justify your own positions when you have to lie in order to support them? How about you *not* cut off the end of the sentence when it's incredibly relevant:
"...best known for his activity in outing closeted gay politicians
who actively oppose gay rights."
The issue isn't so much about being a closeted gay politician, but being opposed to gay rights as he defines it.
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If the majority of those happen to be Republicans, maybe that's because gay Republicans are more likely to be closeted and oppose gay rights than their counterparts across the aisle.
You have no idea how many closeted Democrats there are, do you? And since no one's running around actively seeking to out them, you're unlikely to. That's kinda the point here.
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I'd spend some time wondering why they can't be honest with their sexuality than playing the martyr.
It's not about honesty Joph. If that was the case, he'd be on a mission to out any and everyone who was gay and in the closet. Are you arguing that it's somehow wrong for a gay person to be in a closet? I suspect an awful lot of gay rights people would disagree with you.
The issue is that he had decided that he is the arbiter of what gay people should believe politically and he attacks anyone who doesn't fit that model by attacking their homosexuality in a way which would be condemned if he were attacking any other gay person. Why the double standard?
What he (and those who agree with him and use the same methods) is doing is creating fear among gay people. He's making them afraid to have opinions of their own. He's making them afraid to be conservatives or express conservative opinions, and certainly afraid if they happen to agree with conservative positions to ever involve themselves in any sort of political career. He's playing on the naturally existing fear of a gay person to be open about their sexuality in order to pressure them into conforming to a single political viewpoint. This is something which should be condemned as a violation of gay rights, but so many of you are so set in your "us vs them" mentality of politics that you're willing to overlook it if it benefits you.
Ends justify the means, I suppose.