Published today in the Washington Blade. (Anywhere it doesn't flow is their fault - I don't write that short of paragraphs!) A snippet:
....What will outing really achieve? An outing campaign takes troops away from the enemy, teaches members of Congress and their staff that there is a price to be paid for legislating “family values,” and ultimately helps create an environment in which legislative gay-bashing and working for the enemy is less and less acceptable.
In the end, LGBT staffers working for anti-gay members of Congress ask of us what they are unwilling to give in return. They condemn the use of their sexual orientation as a weapon while brandishing our own against us. They demand their private lives be protected and kept off limits while helping their bosses turn our private lives into criminal acts. And they ask us to ignore our own self-interest and defend them with our silence, while they refuse to consider anyone’s well being but their own.
These staffers are complicit in destroying the very people whose protection they now demand as a birthright. I, for one, have had enough.
