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Here's an article by Dennis Prager from HumanEvents.com that is bound to make your blood boil. The thesis is that the 'outing' of gay conservatives demonstrates how the gay rights movement is morally and ethically unappealing. Such 'outings' have no defensible justification, Prager argues, and 'outing' someone betrays the sinister way that gay rights advocates (and liberals in general) go about their advocacy.

Prager writes,

It is difficult to identify a more morally repellent act -- outside of violence -- than "outing" a gay person for political gain. Yet, those who "out" gay conservatives defend their actions -- and they do so by blaming their victims.

Of course, the premise required to pull off this "remarkable" argument is that being gay is indeed horrible. Hardly surprising - yet it is rare to see conservative blatherings that are so transparently reliant on a disapproval of homosexuality.

This is also a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Karl Rove is notorious for questioning the sexuality of political adversaries. Remember the Bush administration's efforts to discredit Joseph Wilson (Valerie Plame's husband) by portraying him as a flamboyant, girly-man?

At least when gay rights advocates or liberals "out" political opponents, it is not with a belief that they are accusing those opponents of something horrible.

On 'Outing' Gay Conservatives