This wasn't EXACTLY my position, but this article should give closeted staffers who work for anti-gay members of Congress a scare. My precise position is that if they work for members of Congress who support the anti-gay constitutional amendment, I have no problems with them being outed. As I said in the article, if you’re gay and you support making sexual orientation a political weapon, then your sexual orientation is fair game. Folks can't have it both ways - help to attack the community by day, then expect the community to defend them by night.
Two additional points the article missed.
1. The outing should include closeted members of Congress and Bush administration officials.
2. The outing isn't just about whether they're gay or not - if they have any problems with their personal "family values" and are working for the "family values" crowd, then the public has a right to know that fact. After all, they're the ones who say our family values are a legitimate political weapon.
A friend of mine just emailed me the following rather salient point:
I love this quote from the republican staffer in the Blade article:Excellent point. Would that these gay staffers and members of the administration cared so much about what they're doing to other gay people. Again, they live by one code: "Please protect me while I attack you." Lovely way to live your life.
"It angers me whenever I hear of gay people doing that to other gay
people. It's accomplishing nothing while demonstrating insensitivity to
a very personal process."
What angers me is gays who are working to enact a constitutional
amendment that will make us second class citizens.
That's what he should be worried about gay people doing to other gay
people. Jesus Christ...these people are unbelievable....they work to
enshrine discrimination and you are the bad guy?????????
Curious what the rest of you think?
