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I'm too busy having a fabulous, openly gay lifestyle to steal ideas from dull-as-dirt blogs!

This is where I have mixxed feelings. On the one hand I do agree that people should not hide their sexuality and that they should be open with their family and friends. But on the other hand what Mike Rodgers is doing is abhorrent and uncool to every bone in my little body. People should only "come out" when they feel comfortable about themselves and their surroundings. Never ever forced out. I think Rodgers is just as bad as those who are against gays. Its like a witch hunt

Coming out is a choice, a personal private choice. I was outed and it nearly fracked up everything around me. I still have not forgiven this person. Infact he is on my smackdown list.

I think also that if the "gay community" begins to acknowlege that not all gays are democrats or liberal, that not all gays listen to club music, and that just like Heteros, come in all shapes and ways of thought. It will help to show other folks that we are no different than the human next door.

I have a vague recollection of a very appropo Goldie Hawn quote from the movie Protocol -- something about all men in Washington either working for the government, being gay, married or all three.

Dax, you are sadly, grossly deluded. If you were living a life in which the honest fact of your homosexuality could "frack it up", that was a disastrous situation of your own creation, regardless of whatever ill-intent your out-er may have had.

What Mike Rogers has done is expose the hypocrisy of someone who is working every day on a NATIONAL SCALE to make sure that you have no legal protections as a homosexual, all while on his knees sucking cock. I'll agree that Rogers is not the most likable person sometimes, but maybe that's the sort of person we need out there doing his kind of work. His overall track record speaks for itself, despite Jimbo's frustrations with previous "teases".

It has everything to do with his hypocrisy rather than it does with him being in the closet. He has voted for every anti-gay legislation put before him. His votes negatively affect those very individuals he trolls around with in the Union Station bathrooms.

Just like you can't call yourself anti-abortion while having fetuses ripped from your cooter every now and then; the same thing applies here. It's one thing to stay in the closet and keep your mouth shut; it's another to stay in the closet, pretend you're something you're not professionally, and directly hurt people that are actually just like you.

He could have left the Senate a long time ago if he had a conscience about the whole thing. He chose to stay and continue with his 0% rating from HRC. It's called karma. It will get you every time.

If you are a hypocrite, regardless of what kind, you deserve to be called on it. Even more so when you are in a position to directly impact the people you are condemning.

Outing of hypocritical politicians, for any hypocrisy, is perfectly fine. As DB noted, if you voted against Medicaid funding abortions for poor women but your own daughters are spirited away for "cosmetic enhancements" whereby they magically are no longer pregnant, then go for the jugular.

I don't think anyone is arguing for outing for the sake of it. The question might become at what level or position does it become less valid. Senior staff, junior staff, anyone with any proximity to the politician?

Jimbo you may be off on DADT though. In the NCR (National Capital Region), enforcement is rather lax , but on bases far and wide, it is very much in force.

What Joe, Durban and Moby said about hypocrites. Couldn't say it any better.

On another note, what's the difference between a gay fatwa and a gay jihad? You'd think gays would avoid a "fatwa" just because it has "fat" in it, no?

You guys don't seem to understand the mindset of the closeted gay conservative. Most of them feel that they have the right to be with another man, but they don't feel that they have the right to do it publicly. So, in their screwed up world, Sen Craig can suck a guy off in a stall at Union Station and then turn around and vote against gay marriage without being a hypocrite.

A self-hating lunatic, maybe, but not a hypocrite.

I think it's different for politicians than for actors, artists, musicians. Artists aren't legislating, accepting political money to represent constituants etc. In fact, I think it actually benefits some performers to be out, we are a very loyal audience. The Senator's a liar and he's legislating that lie, repeatedly.

A couple things:

Hypocritical, lying politicians? Show me one that isn't. Seriously, I don't think they exist. I don't believe that there is a politician in either party that won't sell the gays down the river for the right amount of power and $. Even Frank.

Outing? It's all about the 'outer' anyway in this case. I don't buy his motives for a second. Rodgers is just another Coulter in my opinion...all ego...setting the stage for the inevitable book deal and $$, fame and talking head appearances.

If I sound cynical about politics and gays in politics and egos and celebrity and talking heads, it's because I am.

And that Bent Collective thing was just mindboggling strange.

He could have left the Senate a long time ago if he had a conscience about the whole thing. He chose to stay and continue with his 0% rating from HRC. It's called karma. It will get you every time.

Actually he was going to retire but the republican leadership convinced him to run again because they knew he would win his election. oooh the ironies.