Thursday, February 17, 2011

Political Outings Threatened in Indiana After GOP Super DOMA Vote

Yesterday, in the wake of the passage of a marriage discrimination amendment by the Indiana House of Representatives, Bilerico Project editor Bil Browning called for the outing of hypocritical GOP representatives as a political pay back for the GOP's willingness to write discrimination into that state's laws as its members prostitute themselves to the Christian Right. Some argue that "outing" is never proper. I, however, cast my vote with Bil and agree that hypocrites and adulterers in the GOP need to be exposed and hopefully driven from office. They have no qualms interfering in LGBT lives, so pay back is only fair. Indeed, it was the Virginia GOP's anti-gay jihad that started in early 2004 that led me to turn Mike Rogers onto former Congressman Ed Schrock. Oh,and while never fully documented, rumors of "playing for both teams" have long circulated around former Congressman Virgil Goode and former Attorney General Jerry Kilgore to name a few others. Here are highlights of what Bil had to say and in my view what he asks should be the norm in every state where GOP hypocrites play at damaging LGBT lives:
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I"m sick and tired of hypocritical Hoosier legislators who think that our personal lives are any of their business. Do I intrude on who they're sleeping with? I didn't, but I'm going to start now. We need to show them that unnecessary intrusion into other people's relationships is not only unwelcome but unwarranted. We need to burn their hand so they won't touch the stove again.
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[I]t's time to put out the same call I made in 2007 that helped to kill attempts to amend the constitution until now. Last time we found out that Senator Brandt Hershman, one of the sponsors of the amendment and right-to-life darling, had forced his wife to have an abortion in 1997 before he filed for divorce one week later. I also found an anti-gay legislator who was shtupping a male hairdresser while his wife died of a long-term illness.
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Tell me the stories that will embarrass those conservative bigots - Democrats and Republican - that are backing a constitutional ban on our formalized relationships. Send me gossip about who's a philanderer, a kink fiend, a drug addict, a porn addict, or had a divorce, an abortion or even a stay in rehab. Ask your friends and family for the dirt. Look it up on the internet. Sniff out a lead and send it my way.
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I specifically want to learn more about the alleged blowjob one of our married legislative leaders got caught receiving from a staffer in the Statehouse parking lot. I also want to know more about the single Senator who got all of his money after a rich non-related older man died and left it all to him. Rumor has it that there's a handful of legislators who are in the closet and have been spotted visiting the Unicorn Club's strippers and the gay baths. Several southern legislators supposedly have a fondness for blow.
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Do you know who they are? Will you tell me? E-mail me and I'll blow the whistle.
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For Virginia readers I would ask that you do the same as Bil asks be done in Indiana. Hypocrites need to be exposed and taken down. Pass whatever you may know along and I'll put it to good use.

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