[whiteperil] Sean: She thinks she's Brenda Starr

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Posted by Sean:
She thinks she's Brenda Starr
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   I hesitate to link yet another post of Eric's, lest it appear that he
   has ties to [1]The Scourge of International Homoism, Expats in Japan
   chapter; but as usual, he has [2]one of the more sane takes on a topic
   that everyone's nattering about at the moment:

     I think that most American voters (even the 70% who oppose gay
     marriage) take a dim view of persecuting homosexuals by invading
     their privacy. Homosexual witch hunts should have died with
     McCarthy, and the reasoning behind reviving them in the current
     political context is so convoluted that it would make sense only to
     a bigot.
     I'm not saying that the Republican Party is free of bigotry,
     because it isn't. But if the activists keep this stuff up and
     ordinary voters find out about it (I'm not sure whether they have)
     pretty soon someone's going to ask which party has more bigots.

   Ann Althouse [3]makes sense, too:

     I think aggressive characters like our "lefty blogger" think that
     uncovering gay Republicans will disgust social conservatives and
     change their voting behavior. [...] But, honestly, I think these
     creepy, gleeful efforts at outing will only make social
     conservatives more conservative, and they will continue to look to
     the Republican party to serve their needs.

   The truly bizarre contention one occasionally hears is that somehow
   this will all contribute to making it easier for gays to come out of
   the closet. The more gays outed, the more out gays there are, and the
   less isolated and fringe-y we seem...or something. The problem,
   besides the ethical infraction of invading people's privacy, is that
   the tone is all wrong. The petty vindictiveness on display is of a
   kind that most people associate more with a junior high school girls'
   locker room than with adults making serious arguments about social
   policy. It gives social conservatives more reason to think of gays as
   suffering from arrested development and poisons the atmosphere for
   gays thinking about whether now would be a good time to come out.
   Brill.

References

   1. http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2006/10/its_the_homos_s_1.html
   2. http://www.classicalvalues.com/archives/004157.html
   3. http://althouse.blogspot.com/2006/10/lefty-blogger-outs-senator-as-gay.html