Satiated By Craig Scandal, Gay Outer Backs Off Staffers

The Washington Post reports that my friend Mike Rogers is going to cut closeted professional staffers some slack. Personally, I continue to think any closeted gay working for a agressive anti-gay elected official or political candidate should be open game. Based on my experiences in politics, they are generally in such jobs for their own personal advancement and the fact that they will assist in harming other gays to serve their own purposes shows their hypocrisy. Here's portions of the WaPo story (http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2007/09/post_3.html):

Closeted gay congressional staffers can rest easier. Their worst living nightmare, vigilante gay outer and activist blogger Michael Rogers, has called a truce of sorts: he says he'll stop targeting Capitol Hill aides and will instead limit his campaign solely to publicly elected officials and candidates. "Enough readers expressed concerns that I have decided to now focus on elected officials, those running for office and to high level political appointees in the administration," Rogers tells the Sleuth.

Until today, in addition to targeting politicians, Rogers had been aggressively either naming or threatening to out scores of gay staffers who he deemed to be hypocritical because they either pushed anti-gay rights agendas or worked for members of Congress with anti-gay rights voting records. His first threat was sent in the form of a mass email to congressional aides in 2004 warning them: if you are gay, secretly or openly, and you or your boss are pushing legislative agendas seen as unfair to gays and lesbians, then watch out. (It was that year that Rogers caught his first big fish: former conservative Rep. Ed Schrock (R-Va.), who was forced to abandon his re-election bid during the 2004 GOP party convention after Rogers unearthed audiotapes of Schrock, a married man, soliciting men for sex on telephone sex lines.)

P.S. Since I knew Ed Schrock fairly well personally in my past GOP phase, and when Mike Rogers played the tapes for me, they definitely sounded like Schrock.