Politics drives “Outing” Campaign
In his piece, Democratic party partisans ‘outing’ gay Republicans, Rick Moran gets at the real reason for this type of “witch hunt:politics. Those who engage in “outing” may dress up their tactics with noble-sounding rhetoric about exposing hypocrisy and exposing the deleterious effects of the proverbial closet, but they’re just looking for whatever weapon they can find in their campaign against conservatives:
They don’t agree politically with the targets of their slimey attacks, that’s why. And basically, it comes down to the issue of gay marriage and their notions of “gay rights.” Because their targets don’t promote their idea of a political agenda, this is “hypocrisy” in their book and must be “exposed” by ruining careers and families.
In other words, despite the fact that their disagreement is political, they have chosen to respond by personally attacking the objects of their rage and in the process, attempting to ruin their lives.
Emphasis added. Moran adds a notion which seems to be one of the primary themes of this blog:
There is more than one political “agenda” for gays as just about any gay Republican or conservative can tell you.
Those who promote “outing” believe they should decide what the appropriate views someone harboring homosexual views should have. They want to define the “gay rights” legislation someone should support if he wasn’t a hypocrite who hated himself. If you have these inclinations, they contend, you must vote this way.
In short, they’re trying to make the personal political.
Indeed, for all too many who promote or otherwise support “outing,” there is no such thing as the personal. It’s all politics, all the time.
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Am I supposed to believe that no gays had anything to do with the anti-gay laws the liberals have handed down to the Proles? I don’t know of any, of course, but wouldn’t be surprised if they did.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — April 24, 2009 @ 2:31 pm - April 24, 2009
Has there ever been an “outing” initiated from the political right? It seems to me that using this as a political weapon reinforces the perception that there is something shameful about being gay. No doubt the people trying to humiliate these politicians by “outing” them would also proclaim how proud they are themselves to be gay. Who decided it can’t be a neutral quality?
Comment by Jeff — April 24, 2009 @ 3:11 pm - April 24, 2009
GPWest, you’ve hit the nail on the head.
I well remember the case of Ward Connerly, once a member of California’s Board of Regents.
He, although a black man, opposed racial quota systems.
The liberals both in office and especially in the media found some fairly innovative ways to call him names.
He was ”a self-hating black, ” ”off the Plantation,” and (my favorite) he was ”only partly black.”
What nerve!
Comment by Nan G — April 24, 2009 @ 3:54 pm - April 24, 2009
#2 – “he was â€only partly black.—
And nowadays that gets you elected president, no?
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — April 24, 2009 @ 4:52 pm - April 24, 2009
It’s what liberals have been trained to do by their leaders — not engage their political opponents, but destroy them personally.
Thugocrats.
Government is personal to Democrats. It is their mommy, their daddy, and their protector, their God. For gay liberals, it validates their very existence. Even the few who are not on one form of welfare or another are emotionally dependent on government. You threaten it, you threaten them. And so they lash out like wild animals protecting their nest.
“Outers” are much of the same vein. Ive said it before, and I say it again, “outers” are of exactly the same mindset as rapists. They feel so vulnerable, weak and are so humiliated by it that they seek to HURT people whose very existence reminds them of how weak and pathetic they are.
The way to stop them is to point it out and make them understand what everyone else inherently understands — that “outing” is pathetic and something to be deeply ashamed of.
Comment by American Elephant — April 24, 2009 @ 6:17 pm - April 24, 2009
The way to end outing is to make these liberal idots realize that all gay people are not liberal Democrats nor are all blacks. With the help of this blog and the new GoProud, I would say that we have begun this “outing”. I think the conservative gay man has been silent long enough. This movement will leave the outing bastards with no power and they will be shown for the impotent worms they really are.
Comment by Craig — April 24, 2009 @ 6:58 pm - April 24, 2009
There’s a post somewhere in the comments talking about the ‘Lavender Scare’ of the 50′s (can’t find it to link so apologies to the original author).
I found it interesting and ironic reading. McCarthy’s part in the scare was aguing that closeted gays could be blackmailed by the communists.
Irony, thy name is liberalism.
Comment by The_Livewire — April 24, 2009 @ 6:59 pm - April 24, 2009
#2 – I can’t think of a right-wing outing off the top of my head – interesting question.
I do remember some years ago, a prominent Democrat senator and governor (for whom I’d voted for in both cases) had his sexuality questioned during the primary – by another Democrat.
The GOP in this conservative state didn’t go near it best I remember.
Comment by SoCalRobert — April 24, 2009 @ 7:39 pm - April 24, 2009
You must understand, Dan, that for leftists, there is no such thing as the non-political.
For the left family life is politics, sexuality is politics, religion is politics, economics is politics, work is politics, science is politics, art is politics, and on and on and on…
To leftists, politics is the all-subsuming essence, the ultimate reality and ground of all being.
It naturally follows from all of this that everything personal is political, and everything political is personal. If you understand this root assumption, you understand their behavior.
Comment by Classical Liberal Dave — April 26, 2009 @ 1:45 am - April 26, 2009