Sometimes I think some of Virginia's Republican elected officials are bipolar (not to mention not too bright). Publicly, they are vehemently anti-gay and have near perfect zero scores with HRC while privately they follow a different path. In most cases, unconfirmed rumors circulate about their secret lives and remain just that, unconfirmed. Every once in a while however, their secret life gets exposed and the hypocrisy meter goes off the charts. Perhaps the best example of this phenomenon was former Congressman Ed Schrock who represented Virginia Beach. In Congress, he had one of the most consistent anti-gay voting records, but in private he was using Mega Phone to set up gay trysts - until Mike Rogers at BlogActive.com ended the charade and Schrock withdrew from his re-election campaign in 2004. 
*Another Republican about whom unconfirmed rumors have circulated is former Attorney General Jerry Kilgore who ran unsuccessfully against current Virginia Governor Tim Kaine. To date nothing apparently has been confirmed or Kilgore ceased to be of interest after he lost the race for Governor. Personally, having met Kilgore in person back before he launched his race for AG, let's just say my gaydar indicated that Kilgore must have an extensive collection of Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand albums.
*Now, Mike Rogers has his sights on ultra anti-gay Virginia Congressman Virgil Goode about who there have also been rumors of playing for more than one team. BlogActive is reporting on how Goode appears to have given support to the producer of Eden's Curve, a movie that is filled with lots of gay sex and lots of drug use, and which featured his gay Press Secretary, Linwood Duncan. In addition, the conservative Republican Congressman moved an earmark for $150,000 to the very theater in less than gay-friendly Danville, Virginia, run by the movie's producer. Obviously, something looks a bit suspicious. Here are some highlights from BlogActive (be sure to watch the video below on BlogActive):
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"How does Virgil Goode (R-VA) square his condemnation of gay and lesbian Americans while helping to make Eden's Curve?" asks Mike Stark as part of this story of anti-gay hypocrisy and that good old Washington power tool, money.
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[H]ow does an anti-gay Republican US Congressman come to support a movie that is filled with lots of gay sex and lots of drug use? Well, the best place to start is with Linwood Duncan, Goode's Press Secretary. Linwood is gay (an open secret in DC) and has aspirations to be a movie star.
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You're thinking "what's the big deal?" Who cares if Roll Call wrote about a movie starring a right-wing Congressional staffer that was "especially popular at gay and lesbian film festivals across the country because the lead character gets mixed up in relationships with his male roommate..."?I'll tell you who cares. The anti-earmark conservatives care and the anti-gay troglodytes care... A LOT!
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You read it here first: After his press secretary got his first film acting break in a movie filled with gay sex and drug use, the conservative Republican Congressman moved an earmark for $150,000 to the very theater run by the movie's producer. And get this, the press secretary is on the board!
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Mike Stark of Accountability Moments has joined forces with BlogActive to deliver this video with clips from Eden's Curve and questions for Virgil Goode. Watch it and learn the connections between Goode and the film makers and actors, see the earmark that moved $150,000 to the theater run by the movie's producer.
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