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http://www.washblade.com/2004/7-23/news/national/leaderout.cfm

Leader of GOP Senate effort is outed (Gay)
Allen’s former chief of staff refuses comment

By ADRIAN BRUNE
Friday, July 23, 2004

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Local gay activist Michael Rogers, who has led the effort to out gays working for conservative politicians, has compared Timmons to the late Roy Cohn, the high-profile gay attorney who started his career as an aide to former anti-communist Senator Joseph McCarthy.

“What this community is saying is that we will no longer tolerate the Roy Cohns of the world,” Rogers said. “We’re talking about gay men working for homophobes in the day, raising money for them and advocating their policies, and then going to the bars at night. Jay Timmons is a Roy Cohn.”

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Gay Community Still Divided Over 'Outing'

Tuesday, October 4, 2005

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"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."

During a Thursday appearance on MSNBC’s Tucker Carlson show, radical gay activist Michael Rogers declared that “the greatest kept secret for the GOP for the past six or seven years has been the extraordinary number of closeted men who have been helping to facilitate that anti-gay agenda. And I know that there are a lot of my friends on the Republican side who are fed up and have been feeding me information on people like Mark Foley for well over a year.” Rogers has a blog identifying secret GOP homosexuals.

What Rogers is saying is that secret Republican homosexuals are working behind-the-scenes to sabotage a conservative pro-family agenda in the Congress. They are acting more like Democrats than Republicans, if indeed they are Republicans. Whatever their actual party affiliation, these operatives are using the liberal media, homosexual publications, and radical bloggers like Rogers to accomplish their objectives.

In fact, this modus operandi was already employed in the case of Rep. Jim Kolbe, the only openly homosexual Republican member of Congress who came out of the closet after he was threatened with being “outed” for voting for the pro-family Defense of Marriage Act. Kurt Wolfe, the reporter behind that outing, said that, as a result of the campaign, “Jim Kolbe did the right thing and his voting record changed."

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