"Out" all Republican Gays in Congress
The best thing for the whole country is to force the Republican Party to "out" every gay on their side of the aisle in Congress, whether on staff or a politician. This is not a homophobic reaction to the Mark Foley scandal. Quite the contrary, it is to expose Republican hypocrisy and to take the gay issue off the political table.
Every two years since George Bush took office in 2000, Republicans have bashed gays for political advantage. They have quite intentionally misled their social conservative base into thinking that the Democratic Party is the party of homosexuals.
They were getting ready to do it again in this year's mid-term elections. They were campaigning on a theme that Nancy Pelosi would be the next Speaker of the House if the Dems took control. She is the representative from, horror of horrors, San Francisco, Sodom reborn.
Then the Mark Foley page scandal erupted and they were left without a campaign strategy and on the defensive. Does anyone believe that Foley is the only gay Republican? It is well known in Washington that other Congressmen, Senators, and staff are gay. It is coming out in the investigation of the Foley scandal that gays were working for the top leadership in the party.
Yet every two years these deeply closeted gays have had to endure the cynical hypocrisy of the Republican Party denounce gays in order to gain votes. They will have endure it in the future as well, unless everyone knows how many Republican gays are in Conress and what positions they hold.
That will prevent the Republicans from bashing gays every two years and then employing them to advance their agenda until the next election. It will effectively remove the gay issue from the political table, at least as a Republican versus Democrat issue.
Then both parties can admit they knowingly employ and rely upon intelligent and loyal gays in advancing their political agendas. This will only come as news to the followers of Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, Pat Robertson and Tony Perkins. The Falwells, Dobsons, and Robertson and Perkins's know that there are gay Republicans. They are just as cynical as the Republican Party itself in acting surprised that one turned up.
It will be cathartic for both the Republican Party, and the oppressed gay Republicans that have to stay closeted, to out them all. It will also end a major point of hypocrisy that has become ingrained in the political culture, i.e., gay-bashing rather than discussion of real issues like Iraq, healthcare, and the real War on Terror.
Every two years since George Bush took office in 2000, Republicans have bashed gays for political advantage. They have quite intentionally misled their social conservative base into thinking that the Democratic Party is the party of homosexuals.
They were getting ready to do it again in this year's mid-term elections. They were campaigning on a theme that Nancy Pelosi would be the next Speaker of the House if the Dems took control. She is the representative from, horror of horrors, San Francisco, Sodom reborn.
Then the Mark Foley page scandal erupted and they were left without a campaign strategy and on the defensive. Does anyone believe that Foley is the only gay Republican? It is well known in Washington that other Congressmen, Senators, and staff are gay. It is coming out in the investigation of the Foley scandal that gays were working for the top leadership in the party.
Yet every two years these deeply closeted gays have had to endure the cynical hypocrisy of the Republican Party denounce gays in order to gain votes. They will have endure it in the future as well, unless everyone knows how many Republican gays are in Conress and what positions they hold.
That will prevent the Republicans from bashing gays every two years and then employing them to advance their agenda until the next election. It will effectively remove the gay issue from the political table, at least as a Republican versus Democrat issue.
Then both parties can admit they knowingly employ and rely upon intelligent and loyal gays in advancing their political agendas. This will only come as news to the followers of Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, Pat Robertson and Tony Perkins. The Falwells, Dobsons, and Robertson and Perkins's know that there are gay Republicans. They are just as cynical as the Republican Party itself in acting surprised that one turned up.
It will be cathartic for both the Republican Party, and the oppressed gay Republicans that have to stay closeted, to out them all. It will also end a major point of hypocrisy that has become ingrained in the political culture, i.e., gay-bashing rather than discussion of real issues like Iraq, healthcare, and the real War on Terror.
Labels: Campaigns, Congress, Gays, Politics, Republicans
posted by Marshall Darts at
12:26 PM
1 Comments:
Hello Marshall,
Here's some more red-hot ink for your pen. Now help me vanquish the sword!
This Foley fiasco has given people the chance to change the make-up of this government, which will ultimately lead to the end of the Bush-Cheney reign. It may not be pretty, but it is a gift, nonetheless. Don't waste this advantage. Use it wisely to end the more pressing problems that face us all.
Want to better understand some of the desperation among top Christian politicos? Want to know what else they are pretending not to know about? Follow the links and read about who I am and what I have to say. Notice that my last name is Page? Think this "page" scandal and other recent events are mere coincidences? Also notice that the "Macaca" incident occurred on my birthday, August 11th. The luck of these duplicitous, arrogant hypocrites has failed and will continue to do so. The timing and ramifications are much worse than most realize yet.
If Christian political leaders are going to go around attacking others for not living up to their professed values, it's a damn good idea to be truthful and actually walk the walk. Logs and motes in the eye, camels through the eye of a needle, glass houses, kettles and pots, and what goes around comes around, et al. Karma's a bitch when She finally decides enough is enough! This wouldn't have been so bad on Republicans if they hadn't been such arrogant hypocrites in order to corner the so-called values voters! Now the "Two Candlesticks" and "Two Witnesses" (Truth and Justice) are "breathing fire" and "raining hailstones!"
Christian Political Leadership, Hypocrisy, Duplicity, and Purposeful Evil
The current scandal involving Congressman Foley is merely the latest in an amazingly long list of blatant deception and duplicity by Republicans and the Christian Right in recent years. While bedeviling us all with their holier-than-thou pretenses, they consistently support and/or perform blatant greed and abominable evil. Never forget the extent of their arrogance over the last two decades and especially the last 6 years. It is beyond amazing that Christians continue to blindly support such obviously blatant scoundrels, even as they are repeatedly exposed going against the most basic of human values. The level of hypocrisy and duplicity boggles the mind. There is no longer any doubt, whatsoever, that Christianity is little more than a purposeful deception used by political and religious leaders to dupe, manipulate, and coerce entire populations into giving them wealth and power, which they always use for greed, injustice, and abominable evils.
The actions of Foley and those who covered up for him directly parallel the actions of scores of priests that have raped innocent children, preyed upon others for centuries, and had their actions hidden and abetted by the Vatican. Now, in eerie repetition of Vatican history, we have a power hungry Christian Emperor (GW) working closely with the Vatican and Judeo-Christian aristocrats to lead crusades in the so-called Holy Land. Furthermore, to leave little doubt about the reality of this assessment, the USA, as the new Holy Roman Empire, is about to legalize the torture it has perpetrated in recent years while steadily reversing many of the democratic and civil freedoms that people gained when the Vatican and royalty lost control of their European empire at the turn of the nineteenth century. Now we see them following the same old path of evil as they strive to cement the status of the USA as the latest proxy Vatican empire. Make no mistake about it, the new dark ages are looming on the horizon unless we do something proactive to prevent it.
Remember that those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it!
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Peace...
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Seven Star Hand, at 10/14/2006 10:47 AM
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