Congressman Aaron Schock outed?

[pbrower2a]

Those of us who have no problem with homosexuality have a big problem with people pretending to be straight and being militant opponents of gay rights while being gay. The issue is hypocrisy, and it is much like discovering that someone who makes antisemitic smears has a Jewish grandmother.

Dislike something about your ancestry? Tough! You can't change it. Dislike being gay? Tough! You can't change that. I say, live with it. Anyone who can't adapt to an intractable reality of personal history or characteristics has no business setting public policy for the rest of us. There's more to politics than proving something about oneself -- especially if one seeks to deny something about oneself.



 

[pbrower2a]

You think the conclusion someone has come to from their own "lived-in" experience is "disgusting?" Those are strong words...

If they "chose" their sexuality, then I question their ability to have a sexuality at all.  That just screams "sociopath"...

Sociopaths often don't have a preference for either, thus making a "choice" much easier.  Choosing to be gay in such situations may be beneficial for whatever purposes they're working towards.

And I don't sympathize with sociopaths.

So again... yeah, it is disgusting.  If a "gay" guy says he "chose" it, cut that guy out of your life.  He's probably trying to take advantage of you or manipulate you somehow... as sociopaths are wont to do.

Give him a break on this -- there are no allegations of illicit or abusive sexuality. If he is outed he is outed as much for hypocrisy as for homosexuality, and he is no more hypocritical than the antisemite with a Jewish grandmother. Even if one is anti-gay but homosexual one has shown a huge gap between beliefs and actions. The beliefs are unsupportable but the actions are supportable. I have no problem voting for an out-and-out homosexual or for a rumored homosexual who does not bash gays rhetorically. 

Voters will get to decide whether they want a hypocrite representing them in Congress. I'd find it just as difficult to vote for someone who campaigns on "family values" yet appears on the regular customer list of a whore.  In the Prohibition era I would have found it possible to support a politician who stood on either side of the issue of alcohol -- but I would have found it impossible to vote for a "Dry" exposed as a regular heavy drinker.

It is hard to respect humanity or needful institutions if one hates oneself.   

[pbrower2a]

If one is gay and has done none of the following:

1. Running on a 'family values' platform that insists upon heterosexual families with male dominance

2. Denouncing homosexuality

one can win. America is becoming increasingly tolerant of homosexuality while it is becoming harsher on sexual violence and child sexual abuse.  Such used to be strictly a liberal position. Now it is becoming more commonplace among moderates and conservatives.  

"I am gay, and so what!" doesn't hurt.

Think about it. What is less threatening to a heterosexual marriage between a very straight man and woman than homosexuality? Would a man feel troubled hiring an aggressively-straight male interior decorator who would have access to the house while his wife is in it?