Saturday, July 16, 2005
How much more contradictory can you get?
A top aide to one of the U.S. Senate's leading antigay members has told a Washington blog that he is gay and stands by his boss, Pennsylvania Republican Rick Santorum.
Robert Traynham serves Santorum as the main spokesman and deputy chief of staff for the Senate Republican Conference, which Santorum chairs. After receiving tips from readers of his Web log, BlogActive, Michael Rogers called Traynham and asked him if he is "out to the senator." In a tape Rogers provided to Advocate.com, Traynham responded, "I am." Asked whether the senator's constituents know he's openly gay, Traynham said, "I'm not sure that's really relevant."
Does this make any sense whatsoever? A spy maybe? But doesn't look like it by the story. So why Santorum, of all people? And Santorum comes out supporting the guy?
Santorum was a leading sponsor of the Federal Marriage Amendment, restricting marriage to straight couples. In 2003, criticizing the Supreme Court ruling that struck down Texas's sodomy law, he said the decision would open the door to incest, adultery, polygamy, and bigamy. "If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual [gay] sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery," Santorum said in an infamous interview with the Associated Press. "You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue, Yes, it does."
Reflects my views as well. Not to mention all the violence issues that occur in the private sphere.
Rogers himself has come under fire from gay and lesbian activists for his outing of various officials in Washington. In fact, his outing campaign has exposed more than 20 gays who work for conservative causes and politicians.
Actually I am in favor of outing all the crap of homos and bisexuals everywhere. No closeted anyone. Sexual abusers and pedophiles and ephebophiles as well. Out in the open where both conservatives and liberals can smell how much they stink sexually speaking.
"Society" isn't really so afraid of outing homos, the real panic would occur if someone started outing the bisexual crap out there. Not only that, but it would be so nice to out how sleazy, kinky, and violent people are sexually speaking (specially the heterosexuals). So many married people pretending to be cleancut heterosexuals, when in fact they are walking piles of violent sexual crap. Out in the open.
And I am definitely in favor of secret cameras to gather proof of sexual harassment. Change the privacy/filming laws and get it on camera.
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