« The View From Your Window | Main | Malkin Award Nominee »

18 Oct 2006 04:01 pm

The Left Versus Gays

The outing crusade gains momentum. Look: I loathe the closet. I despise the hypocrisy in the Republican party. But a witch-hunt is a witch-hunt. If the gay left thinks it will advance gay dignity by using tactics that depend on homophobia to work, that violate privacy, that demonizes gay people, then all I can say is: they are wrong. They will regret it. It will come back to haunt them. And they should cut it out. The fact that their motives might be good is no excuse. Everybody on a witchhunt believes their motives are good. But the toxins such a witchhunt exposes, the cruelty it requires, and the fanaticism of its adherents are always dangerous to civilized discourse. What you're seeing right now is an alliance of the intolerant: the intolerant on the gay left and the intolerant on the religious right. The victims are gay people - flawed, fallible, even pathetic gay people. But they are still people. And they deserve better.

Permalink :: Trackback (7) :: Sphere It! ::

Share This

TrackBack URL for this entry:

http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d83451c45669e200d83433194053ef

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference 'The Left Versus Gays'

Is he or isn't he?
Excerpt: To some Craig might seem like a monster (assuming he is gay); to others he just seems pathetic, and another example of why homophobia in our society is so stupid and destructive. I'm not saying I support this practice, I just don't see, pace Sullivan, ...
Weblog: The Reaction
Tracked: Oct 18, 2006 7:22:37 PM

Outing Gay Republicans to Advance a Partisan Agenda
Excerpt: When I used to read Andrew Sullivans blog with great regularity, I would find that while I didnt always agree with him, when I did agree with him, it sometimes seemed that he nearly perfectly expressed my own thoughts. Just today when li...
Weblog: Gay Patriot
Tracked: Oct 18, 2006 8:16:10 PM

No Pity for the Outed
Excerpt: Outing a gay person who holds political power is fine by me, provided that the evidence exists. As to the outing of Larry Craig, I dont know the evidence, I have not seen the evidence and do not expect to be able to, and this in itself makes m...
Weblog: Positive Liberty
Tracked: Oct 18, 2006 9:59:18 PM

Sullivan
Excerpt: Since I picked on Andrew this week, it is only fair that I praise him for this. The maintenance of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing. And it requires a self-denying ordinance of the most extreme kind. It requires a willing...
Weblog: A Second Hand Conjecture
Tracked: Oct 19, 2006 5:09:42 AM

http://instapundit.com/archives/033408.php
Excerpt: DAN RIEHL THINKS that the Dems are blowing it. His analysis may be a bit hopeful, but we've certainly seen some significant mistakes in the past few days. Plus, the "outing fever" among the activist left is very distasteful, and is generating blowback....
Weblog: Instapundit.com
Tracked: Oct 21, 2006 11:54:04 AM

Mountain of brokeback identities
Excerpt: I think Iowahawk was really onto something with his open letter from Howard Dean, as the "outing" of gay Republicans is clearly a condescending attempt to confuse and aggravate religious conservatives -- especially those living in rural areas and in...
Weblog: Classical Values
Tracked: Oct 21, 2006 6:02:44 PM

Backlash!
Excerpt: The biggest reason Democrats are a minority rather than a majority is their pers
Weblog: whereIstand.com/adamelijah
Tracked: Oct 22, 2006 11:30:16 PM