Can’t get enough gay scandal action? Mike Rogers has more to come.
The blogger who outed Larry Craig in October has more than 30 names on his list of closeted legislators.
After all the MSM attention, Rogers plans on outing more politicians in the coming months. All of the politicians are Republican, and all of them have voted on anti-gay legislation in the past.
In a way, he’s sort of like the Robin Hood of outings, but instead of stealing from the rich to help the poor, he’s destroying the lives of the self-hating and ignoring everyone else.
A former high-ranking congressional staffer who is on the list has a different analogy: A call from Rogers is "a call from Satan himself."
Disney character or embodiment of evil, you know, either way.
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Rogers defends his tactics saying, “I write about closeted people whose records are anti-gay. If you’re a closeted Democrat or Republican and you don’t bash gays or vote against gay rights to gain political points, I won’t out you.”
I am somewhat conflicted about the tactics of Rogers. The process of accepting and disclosing one’s gayness is very stressful and scary–you have to worry about rejection from the people you care about the most, and begin to deal with the changes that come with being identified as a gay American. When someone else outs you, you loose control over this very difficult process, and it adds to the emotional turmoil.
What’s more, Rogers’ tactics create a new sort of McCarthyism targeting gays. It makes me somewhat uncomfortable to see again this kind of a witch hunt going on within the walls of our government.
Those concerns noted, I ultimately support the outing of anti-gay politicians. These politicians take their own shame and self-hatred over being gay out on open gays who just want to live their lives with dignity (as opposed to finding sexual fulfillment through secret trysts in public restrooms and parks). To me, using your democratically elected office as a closet is an abuse of power, and we need people like Rogers to expose that.