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Outing gay politicians who don't toe the Gay-Agenda line is "in". . . ?
Money quote: "These particular hypocrites are making decisions that impact the lives of LGBT people directly, whether it's in thwarting LGBT inclusive anti-discrimination law or pushing anti-family marriage amendments. . . The expectation of privacy is not the same for a public figure as it is for a private individual."
Let's just call this for what it is -- blackmail. The "give me what I want or I'll ruin your life" brigade have no moral high-ground to claim. Initiating whisper campaigns, harassing people at their work places and releasing talking-points to the media composed of innuendo regarding a politician's sex life is not only vicious, but also contemptuous of the very idea of respect that the blackmailer is demanding.
What's up with the whole LGBT deal, anyway? Last I knew, it was GLBT, but I suppose that having to apologize for being a man doesn't stop with heterosexuals (No, really, ladies first!).
And can we stop pretending "gay" has anything, at all, in common with "transgender"? Indulging a lifelong discomfort with your biological gender does not make someone a minority with legally protected rights . . . of course, neither does choosing to buck the status quo and get busy with members of the same sex, but that's another topic altogether.
We're not "minorities" in need of civil rights protection, and if I hear one more moronic homo compare his or her experience of being gay with what it was like during the Black civil rights movement in this country . . . as if!
Note to all the professional victims out there -- STF Up and MoveOn.org. You want society to embrace you? Get a job, marry the opposite sex and have children. Otherwise, grow a backbone, take responsibility for the choices you make in life, and learn to live with the natural consequences of taking the road less traveled. Gay people have freedoms, choices and options in this country, and all this "I'm oppressed!" bullsh*t does nothing but reveal a petulant and perpetually whiny character.
You want what Joe and Suzy down the street have? Then, for God's sake, live like Joe and Suzy down the street. Make their choices, live their lives, walk a mile in their shoes instead of chaining yourself to a capitol building and insisting that they walk twenty in yours . . . or else.
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Just found this site .How come Orientation of a sexual nature cant bring a few more open,honest and less angry people to the public discussion.Of course relationships are one way of needing human contact.However if we are to have an more diverse way forward in discussion on how homophobia is within, as well as outside of Orientation, i wish WE all could join the discussion. Sportsman, Politicians,Administrators etcetra where is the next stage in recognition that the first 50 years of "Gay Rights" was as successfull as "Civil Rights". Now to build on that progress and devolp more open challenge to the resistance of ALL religions, cultures and sports and countrys(With a few remarkeable exceptions)is desperately needed. Andrew Sullivan may not be everyone ideal advocate. However he shows the sort of lead that is very difficult to find in modern times. Peter mandelson also has done his part. Larry Kramer in his way and so on. But whats keeping so many of us in this modern, "Closet".Even the rest of the world uses that word "Closet" in the way we introduced them to it. Meanwhile we seem, to me to rest on our previous progress whilst a frighting backlash begins to really build up. Maybe we really are ourselves needing it in order to "Wake up and smell the coffee". I just worry that our reaction now begins to mirror the late 1920's and early 1930's in Germany. can we really have become that "Closeted" and complancent. I just dont know but have a, "Gut", feeling when i switch off my overactive thinking that somethings beginning to go badly wrong !
Posted by: patrick hacker | May 9, 2005 1:21 PM