Blog threat as Schrock quits seat..(more outings to come)

[RedEarth]

Blog threat as Schrock quits seat
By Jonathan E. Kaplan


The blogger who triggered yesterday’s resignation of Rep. Ed Schrock (R-Va.) by spreading rumors that he is gay promised “there’s more to come.”

The gossip first surfaced two weeks ago on a Washington, D.C.-based Web log, or blog, Blogactive.com. The site links to an audio recording that it claims is Schrock calling into the MegaMates/Megaphone Line, a telephone service that men can use to meet other men.

After the GOP push to ban gay marriages, Blogactive.com began “outing” political aides and has since targeted lawmakers who voted for legislation on the issue. Schrock was one of 233 lawmakers who this year supported the Marriage Protection Act, which would block federal courts from considering constitutional issues arising from gay-marriage cases.


Mike Rogers, the blogger who is promising more embarrassing revelations, said an anonymous source gave him the audiotape. “ people who say they are Republicans and then use sexual orientation to stay in power.”

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Not all delegates were disappointed. “I’m a conservative Christian, and the gay lifestyle is the wrong lifestyle,” said Fred Gerald, a delegate from southern Virginia. “It does not set a very good example for our young people, and it lowers the values in America having gay people in government.”



http://www.thehill.com/news/083104/schrock.aspx

[Rockholm]

1. Hypocrites Should Be Outed!!!

[jayfish]

2. I Love How They Throw In...

"a cancer survivor". Makes me want to :cry:

Jay

[prodigal_green]

3. I was opposed to outing in the early '90s

when I truly believed that it was a person's personal business. But if they are hypocritically using anti-gay rhetoric to gain political power while denying their true selves, then it is open season.

I think Barney Frank threatened to out a bunch of congressmen once when they were going on about something and the issue was dropped the next day. I'll find a link and add it on edit.

[Seabiscuit]

6. Bingo!

This kind of "outing" is not about being gay. It's about hypocrisy, gay bashing for political ends, and power ploys. Your quote: "But if they are hypocritically using anti-gay rhetoric to gain political power while denying their true selves, then it is open season" says it all.

[Wilber_Stool]

4. It's ironic.

Isn't this the reason that was given years ago for denying gays jobs of responsibility. That the very fact that they were secretly gay would allow them to be manipulated?

[David__77]

5. Wow, the anti-outers here sure are silent of late.

I recall that a year ago or two years ago, many, many people here were opposed to outing under any and all circumstances and were vocal about it. People were pissed at me for promoting it as legitimate.

I think that the viscious lies of the right have awakened many to the reality that politics is a form of war.

[belle]

7. Well, I look at it this way:

It's people like this--the movers and the shakers, the ones who craft travesties like the FMA, who are RESPONSIBLE for gayness being a stigma. Chuck 'em out and things start looking up. hoisting them on their own petard is just delicious hypocrisy icing on the cake.