With so many anti-gay rants here, isn't it curious that the most vehement anti-gay Republicans ended up being gay? (McCain, house of representatives)

[KRAMERCAT]

With so many anti-gay rants here, isn't it curious that the most vehement anti-gay Republicans ended up being gay?

[Huckleberry3911948]

the avalanche of rants we are seeing are gay, not anti gay.

[Frankie117]

err...what? Can we at least get an example to go by Or is this a joke post? It would seem we have been getting a lot of those lately...

[Chatteress]

Originally Posted by Huckleberry3911948

the avalanche of rants we are seeing are gay, not anti gay.

Yep, most of those who protest the loudest are the gays and pro-gays.

[R.J. MacReady]

Originally Posted by Huckleberry3911948

the avalanche of rants we are seeing are gay, not anti gay.

Are we reading the same forum?

[KRAMERCAT]

Originally Posted by Frankie117

err...what? Can we at least get an example to go by Or is this a joke post? It would seem we have been getting a lot of those lately...

'Examples'? Sure.

Mark Foley
U.S. Representative
(September 28, 2006)
The Crime: Sending sexually laced, gramatically challenged instant messages and e-mails to teenaged boys in the Congressional page program for more than 10 years.
The Hypocrisy: Chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children. One of the foremost opponents of child pornography in the Senate.
The Quote: “get a ruler and measure it for me”


Ted Haggard
Leader of the National Association of Evangelicals
(November 2006)
The Crime: Paying male prostitutes for sex and snorting crystal meth.
The Hypocrisy: A powerful force in the evangelical movement, Haggard participated in weekly meetings with President George Bush and top advisors where he gave spiritual advice. He taught that homosexuality was an abomination and actively lobbied against gay rights.
The Quote: “I did not have a homosexual relationship with a man in Denver.”

Larry Craig
U.S. Senator
Senate Liason for Mitt Romney’s Presidential Campaign
(June 11, 2007)
The Crime: Soliciting sex from an undercover cop in an airport bathroom
The Hypocrisy: Craig twice voted against adding the words “sexual orientation” to the federal hate crimes law. Craig also voted to give states the right to refuse to recognize gay marriage–a right they already had, but the Senator wanted to really, really prove he didn’t like gay people.
The Quote: “I am not gay, I don’t do these kinds of things.”

Bob Allen
Member of the Florida House of Representatives
Florida Chairman of John McCain’s Presidential Campaign
(July 11, 2007)
The Crime: Offering an undercover cop $20 to allow Allen to blow him in a men’s room in a public park. After being arrested, Allen tried to explain that he only offered to blow the cop because the cop was a “burly black man” and he “didn’t want to become a statistic.”
The Hypocrisy: Allen was one of 21 Florida legislators to sign Gov. Jeb Bush’s friend-of-the-court brief supporting the state’s ban on gays adopting children, and he co-sponsored an unsuccessful bill that would have enhanced penalties for “offenses involving unnatural and lascivious acts” such as indecent exposure.
The Quote: “I certainly wasn’t there to have sex with anybody and certainly wasn’t there to exchange money for it.”

Glenn Murphy Jr.
National Chairman of the Young Republicans
Chairman of the Clark County Republican Party
(July 28, 2007)
The Crime: Murphy got a fellow Young Republican drunk and then spent the night at his house. The other young man woke up in the middle of the night to find Murphy giving him mouth-to-penis resuscitation. After this incident, a 1998 sexual battery report came to light in which Murphy was alleged to have done the exact same thing.
The Hypocrisy: Murphy was a well-paid political consultant for Republican candidates and often advised them to use gay marriage as a wedge issue to paint their opponents as out of touch with traditional values.
The Quote: “I was in the Sound of Music in High School…don’t ask” (from his now-defunct Myspace page.)

[brianrees]

Originally Posted by msconnie73

Yep, most of those who protest the loudest are the gays and pro-gays.

I'm flattered you take such a deep interest in all things gay, msconnie, I congratulate you for showing up on any gay-related thread much faster than I do. But I'm gay, and maybe haven't got your keen instinct for these things.

[cyrusjul]

Because those closeted Republican homosexuals grew up with values and religious ideologies of hating gays and they had to get married to the opposite sex. So they decided since they were not so happy with their sexual lives that they had to create personal crusades to try to make other happily open gays closeted and miserable like them.

[JGY]

Cyrusjul, I became a Republican long before I even considered the gay lifestyle, and long before I became a Christian.

Your above example was the opposite for me, I did not grow up in a Fundy household, nor was I forced to marry, I chose to marry because I loved her, and I wanted some semblance of a normal life that was denied me.

[harborlady]

JGY and what is it going on in the minds of these men horrified and acting over the top at the notion that anyone in the world is gay? What's so threatening to their psyche to behave as they do? I'm female hetero and clueless what it's all about.