Definitely.
Posted on 10/04/2005 12:59:03 PM PDT by SmithL
New York -- Though decried by many gay-rights leaders, "outing" — the practice of exposing secretly gay public figures — is expanding into new terrain as Internet bloggers target congressional staffers, political strategists, even black clergy whose sermons and speeches contain anti-gay rhetoric.
Few issues are as divisive within the gay community. Numerous gay organizations, such as the Human Rights Campaign and the Log Cabin Republicans, staunchly oppose outing, yet many other activists support it when the targets are public figures — or their aides — who work against gay rights or condemn homosexuality.
"It's not the gay thing that's the problem — it's the hypocrisy," said Michael Rogers, creator of a Web log that has been at the fore of several recent outing campaigns. "I'm going to be calling out the politicians who vote against us and work against the interests of the very community they come from."
Christopher Barron, political director of the Log Cabin Republicans, said he understands the anger that activists such as Rogers feel but believes they are wasting their energy.
"Outing is not an effective tool," Barron said. "I don't know a single vote on gay-rights issues that was changed because of outing. ... Folks should be focusing on the hard work that needs to be done and not get bogged down in personal attacks."
Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, said outing can backfire by distracting attention from more substantive political issues or by prompting conservative politicians to harden their anti-gay views after aides and associates are outed.
Two black gay-rights activists are now taking aim at prominent black pastors who — in the activists' view — have gone too far in assailing homosexuality from their pulpits. . . .
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A golf outing?
David Brock is too........
Well, are the pastors gay, or do the gay activists assume that the pastors are gay under the theory that anyone who attacks gays is a closet homo?
I don't ask, because I don't care.
Ahh, yes. The age old practice of calling someone gay if you don't agree with them. So far, these people have been "outed":
George W. Bush
John G. Roberts
Harriet Miers
Rush Hudson Limbaugh III
Feel free to add more.
Black people are very, very protective of their own sometimes to the point of paranoia. Bugchasers who are going around trying to destroy prominent black pastors had better watch their backs.
Abraham Lincoln
King David
Tinkie Winkie
The above three were featured dancing together on a magazine cover, National Review, I think.
It would not surprise anyone here to find out Tinkie Winkie is a homosexual. He does seem a little "off".
Spongebob Squarepants
The assumption is that a person who may have homosexual inclinations, or even acts on them in moments of weakness, cannot speak out against gay marriage or the pro-gay political and social agenda without being a hypocrite. This is a non-sequiter, just as it would be a non-sequiter to assume that it is hypocritical for a recovering alcoholic to speak out for stronger drunk driving laws. Political views should be based on reason and principal, not inclination.
Condoleeza Rice?
Richard Simmons
He was watching porn (a pink/female anemone dancing) on TV when Gary confronted him. Plus, he seems to have a thing for Sandy.
Definitely.
Explains why MLK succeeded.
Meaning ?
I don't know, but Sandy seems a bit "butch" to me.
She may be a tomboy (a very buff one at that) but not all toms are homos.
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