Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
On topic, so what if he's gay? What is it with you ultra-liberals, you expend huge amounts of energy defending gay rights and then you demonize the hell out of republicans when they turn out to be gay. You lament how sad it is that it's emotionally and socially difficult for a gay person to come out of the closet, then abuse the hell out of a republican when they do. And then you have the gall to accuse them of being hypocrites.
Um, they aren't attacked for being gay, they're attacked for serving anti-gay interests as gay people, for choosing the gains of power over the justice to gay people.
There are harmful lies and myths in the Republican world that are the basis for many of them to be anti-gay, and they include things like how gays 'choose to be gay'.
Taking a gay person who chooses to lie about their sexual orientation and serve anti-gay power, often voting for bigotry, and showing the truth, can help expose those myths as lies.
Why is it gall to say they are hypocrites for speaking and voting against gays - which would be bigotry if they were heterosexual - while actually being gay?
That's little different than, say, a tobacco executive who says smoking is safe, but doesn't allow his family to smoke because of the health risks.
The 'stigma' - the noun for the result of bigotry - for gays is perpetuated by Republicans so often thinking no one among them is gay. If it weren't a choice, wouldn't a lot of their family and neighbors and leaders be gay? Seeing how many of their leaders are in fact gay and hid it to protect their power in an anti-gay environment, helps undermine the lie.
While there are ethical issues trading off the person's rights not to suffer the bigotry against the benefit of the truth helping reduce the bigotry, they are reduced for the gays who secretly are gay and help perpetuate the bigotry for selfish reasons, and hypocrisy is a reasonable statement.