Comments on: In the closet?

By: Princess Sparkle Pony

Princess Sparkle Pony — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:51:46 +0000

Is someone’s private sex life a legitimate campaign or political issue? Most us would answer “no,”

Oh really! I think a lot of people would disagree with you on that one. So if a candidate were gay, they’d be electable and, for instance, the religious right wouldn’t have anything to say about their gayness?

I guess, to paraphrase, “most of us” depends on your definition of “us.”

***Blog Editor: The “us” referred to in this post was a generic “us” in referring to those of us that generally support and admire Condi.

By: section9

section9 — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 22:18:55 +0000

Not only that, but farther down the article in the interview with Bean, Randy “self-outed” herself as a straight woman. She took umbrage at the fact that were she gay she would have remained closeted.

By: Olivia Zantoro

Olivia Zantoro — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:03:10 +0000

Here’s another article by Ben Greenman on AOL’s News Bloggers: Is Condi Gay — and Who Cares?. However, I disagree with some of its assumptions:

If she is gay and is part of an administration whose policies have been hostile to gay Americans, does that make her a hypocrite?

Is the Bush administration “hostile” to homosexuals? Conventional wisdom may assume so as a “natural” extension of opposition to gay marriage. Coupled with nonstop repitition by the mainstream media, at every opportunity, of the Leftist party line “Republican equals homophobe” turns this falsehood into a widely accepted “truism.”

By: flwrs

flwrs — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:02:57 +0000

Glen Kessler works for Washington Post, not AP

***B.E. True, our bad. Correction made. Thanks for pointing it out.