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Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Still outing people in Washington, D.C. Since my site traffic has shot through the roof, mostly because people are searching for information about the campaign by John Aravosis and Michael Rogers to out those who are helping to promote an anti-gay agenda, I feel compelled to update and provide commentary on the goings on. Michael Rogers was on the O'Reilly factor this week to discuss the outing campaign. (He's a brave soul for entering the 'no spin zone', you gotta give him that. And, as scary as this is, Bill O'Reilly and I agreed that perhaps the whole outing campaign is going a bit far. Even though agreeting with Bill O'Reilly should be reason enough to reconsider one's position, I'm not. I still think it's poor form to run around outing people who have made a choice to remain closeted but also aren't going around preaching hatred... Perhaps staffers of GOP legislators don't actually support gay marriage, they don't have to just because they're gay. "That is a personal decision," Lynden Armstrong, out staffer of republican Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico, says, "They're outing people who aren't in the place in their life where they're ready for that to happen. Besides, is outing a staff member going to really affect a senator's or a representative's vote?" Agreed. Which brings me to the new focus of the outing campaign, following the Federal Marriage Amendment's defeat in the Senate, Rogers said the campaign will be broadened to tack on a 'fidelity pledge' to expose lawmakers who promote 'family values' but have extramarital affairs and outing actual members of congress who have had less than stellar moral records despite their claims that the 'sanctity of marriage' needs protecting... and now! That's a strategy I can get behind. What's the difference? I've always believed an opinion is only that unless it makes you a hypocrite. And in your hypocrisy you feel the need to impose morality upon others that you haven't been able to follow yourself. For example... you preach that you want to protect the sanctity of marriage but you've had extramarital affairs? Revealing THAT hypocrisy is fair game. Heal thyself, and leave the constitution (and me) alone. [Chicago Tribune: O'Reilly scolds guest who outed gays...] [Data Lounge: Outing Campaign Continues After Marriage Equality Vote] [Boston.com: Some criticize campaign to 'out' gays who work in Congress] [Washington Blade: Gay Hill staffers should be outed by John Aravosis] | private feedback | |
Hey! I'm Shane... a proud gay progressive Democrat who has recently relocated to New York City from Ithaca, NY. As I am no longer in Ithaca, I haven't quite decided the fate of this blog. Drop me a line!
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