gays/lesbians abusing their cause & "outing people"

[ShadowWarrior26]

Too many gay rights activists (including straight allies) are strident, self-righteous and emotional. In addition, some gay activists invest too much of their identity in their alternative sexuality. A gay person who can vote for George Bush, like these folks interviewed by the gay paper, the Washington Blade, is my idea of open-minded.

Too many gays involved in the polarizing campaign for "gay rights" (and their allies) confuse disapproval of their sexual orientation with hatred and bigotry. They fail to understand that many Americans remain deeply uncomfortable with government "anti-discrimination" sanctions for gays. This results from legitimate moral and religious beliefs opposing homosexuality; and from concerns such sanctions may pave the road for attempts to legalize gay marriage, or compel questionable standards and conduct in public life.

Given the passions surrounding homosexuality, it is not reasonable to expect that public schools in all states will necessarily, and without question, allow gay-friendly curricula. Should it even be the purpose of schools to sanction alternative sexual identities? If gays, why not also transsexuals? It is perfectly sane to argue that these are, or should be, private matters. Unless we decide as a society it is the business of public schools to promote a range of sexual identities. So, a state legislator in Alabama (cue "Dixie," and b-roll of hooded Klansmen) wants books portraying gays in a positive light removed from public schools, and, natch, is labelled a Nazi by an official of the Southern Poverty Law Center. In Washington, State Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles (D-Seattle) apologized after last week comparing discrimination against gays to The Holocaust. The ADL wasn't amused.

Last summer, gay activists mounted a vile "outing" campaign against Capitol Hill staffers who worked for Republicans thought to be favoring a federal constitutional amendment banning gay marriage - the idea being if you are gay and work for such a legislator, you must, de facto, be a self-loathing traitor to "the cause" - there is only one position that is acceptable. Cooler heads prevailed: the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment failed to make it to a vote because it would have deprived same-sex couples in state-approved civil unions of constitutional protections.


Gays have repeatedly used "outing" as a way to blackmail politicians

 

[ubertroll]

Too many gays involved in the polarizing campaign for "gay rights" (and their allies) confuse disapproval of their sexual orientation with hatred and bigotry. They fail to understand that many Americans remain deeply uncomfortable with government "anti-discrimination" sanctions for gays. This results from legitimate moral and religious beliefs opposing homosexuality; and from concerns such sanctions may pave the road for attempts to legalize gay marriage, or compel questionable standards and conduct in public life.

Yes--they get confused. They think that politicians and people who argue for codifying legal discrimination against them are bigots against them.

It's a pretty natural mistake

 

[RoryN]

The source of his dribble: Rosenblog.com

Consider yourself "outed".

 

[ShadowWarrior26]

the blackmailing and "outing" people without their consent is rampant and must be stopped. we must stop homosexuals blackmailing society this way

 

[ubertroll]

the blackmailing and "outing" people without their consent is rampant and must be stopped. we must stop homosexuals blackmailing society this way

Straight people do it, too.

A republican, and staunch anti-gay, mayor was just outed, when a newspaper journalist, masquerading as a 17 year old boy entered into an online relationship with him, and got him to say some pretty damning stuff.

Irony.



"Outing" someone only hurts them if they have shame about it, after all--if we as a society stopped stigmatizing gays, what'd be the damn problem?

 

[John Doe]

the blackmailing and "outing" people without their consent is rampant and must be stopped. we must stop homosexuals blackmailing society this way

So let me see if I understand this...you're crusading against people who are crusading against homophobic crusaders?

 

[ma_guy]

So let me see if I understand this...you're crusading against people who are crusading against homophobic crusaders?

It's more of him outing himself as an idjut.

 

[mornin_cutie]

Given the passions surrounding homosexuality, it is not reasonable to expect that public schools in all states will necessarily, and without question, allow gay-friendly curricula. Should it even be the purpose of schools to sanction alternative sexual identities? If gays, why not also transsexuals? It is perfectly sane to argue that these are, or should be, private matters.

And this is a problem why?
We expect gay teens (and in some areas younger) to sit through classes talking of hetero sexual sex, when they have no desire towards it. Why not allow for gay-friendly curricula as well?
I know of many people I grew up with that hid their sexual orientation because they felt it was not ok. All they heard of in school was hetero. Church - hetero..and in many cases family as well. Why not allow for curricilum that may allow them a little comfort in their lifestyle?

Perhaps sex in general at those ages should be a private matter, but we all know it is not.