Sunday, May 15, 2005
Why is the right wing so obsessed with gays?
His column in Sunday's NY Times ask the question so many of us have been pondering. Why is the right wing so obsessed with gays? Rich nails just how gay the right wing is:
THE ANSWER: Because alot of them are gay.
From americablog
"What adds a peculiar dynamic to this anti-gay juggernaut is the continued
emergence of gay people within its ranks. Allen Drury would have been
incredulous if gay-baiters hounding his Utah senator had turned out to be gay
themselves, but this has been a consistent pattern throughout the 30-year war.
Terry Dolan, a closeted gay man, ran the National Conservative Political Action
Committee, which as far back as 1980 was putting out fund-raising letters that
said, "Our nation's moral fiber is being weakened by the growing homosexual
movement and the fanatical E.R.A. pushers (many of whom publicly brag they are
lesbians)." (Dolan recanted and endorsed gay rights before he died of AIDS in
1986.) The latest boldface name to marry his same-sex partner in Massachusetts
is Arthur Finkelstein, the political operative behind the electoral success of
Jesse Helms, a senator so homophobic he voted in the minority of the 97-to-3
reauthorization of the Ryan White act for AIDS funding and treatment in
1995.
But surely the most arresting recent case is James E. West, the powerful
Republican mayor of Spokane, Wash., whose double life has just been exposed by
the local paper, The Spokesman-Review. Mr. West's long, successful political
career has been distinguished by his attempts to ban gay men and lesbians from
schools and day care centers, to fire gay state employees, to deny City Hall
benefits to domestic partners and to stifle AIDS-prevention education. The
Spokesman-Review caught him trolling gay Web sites for young men and trying to
lure them with gifts and favors. (He has denied accusations of abusing boys when
he was a Boy Scout leader some 25 years ago.) Not unlike the Roy Cohn of "Angels
in America" - who describes himself as "a heterosexual man" who has sex "with
guys" - Mr. West has said he had "relations with adult men" but doesn't
"characterize" himself as gay. This is more than hypocrisy - it's pathology.
ALLEN Drury might not have known what to make of Mr. West or of another odd
tic in the 30-year war, the recurrent emergence of gay-baiting ideologues with
openly gay children (Phyllis Schlafly, Randall Terry, Alan Keyes).
THE ANSWER: Because alot of them are gay.
From americablog
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c'mon dude - you read the story, the man said he wouldn't describe himself as being gay.
He's a straight guy who likes having sex with men. *snort*
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He's a straight guy who likes having sex with men. *snort*
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