Originally posted by: Lemon law
Originally posted by: Fern
Originally posted by: Craig234
Originally posted by: Throckmorton
ANOTHER gay Republican???
Just think about how many there are, conisdering that most probably don't act so recklessly and get caught.
This guy is a state rep. Given 50 states, each with it's own House & Senate, there are many thousands of such polititions throughout the US.
With that kind of large population you're gonna get a few who "stand out"
Fern
With so many Federal and State legislators, Fern is 100% correct that there are probably hundreds if not thousands of those that are gay. Then we can greatly increase that number if we want to include in their extended families or other high profile people. Perhaps the most high profile one is Barney Frank who is an openly gay Federal congressman. And we can add in the openly gay daughter of Dick Cheney or the sister of Newt Gingrich. The point being, few except bigots have any real problems with those that are openly gay. No news value or excitement there.
Yet in the past few years, those high ranking public officials that are in the closet and get outed are almost always republican. Can't remember the name of the democratic governor of NJ right now, but we can now add the name of Curtis to the names Foley, Craig, Swaggert, as well as a few Republican State legislators that have been outed in the past year or so, it does become a predominantly Republican problem especially when the Republican party claims to stand for family values being mutually exclusive of gays. And then to add insult to injury, when the outed gay Republicans were guilty of drafting and supporting gay bashing legislation and public positions,
one really has to wonder about the raw hypocrisies of these outed Republican luminaries.