"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
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