Sounds like exactly the sort of person who should be appointed as an interim candidate who isn't going to seek election. Why are people upset?
We already have a token openly elected gay Senator (and several closeted Senators before her).
That you would automatically assume tokenism says a lot about you…
Do you think there would be more clamoring for support of Franken as the interim Senator if he wasn't gay?
That's not the question. You were implying that a majority of Frank supporters are driven by tokenism. Which is absurd, I mean just look at his record.
