HomoQuotable - Mike Rogers

"When those private lives are in direct conflict with the public policy that these officials espouse, I think it's fair game that their private lives be brought into this. And I have to blog to do that with. Here's the question: What community is expected to protect its own enemies? Don't beat up the gay community, and then expect us to protect your secrets and your double life. It's just not right." - Mike Rogers, serial outer of closeted political hypocrites, in today's Washington Post article titled The Most Feared Man On The Hill?

The WaPo article notes that Rogers' work is not universally supported by gays, some of whom call him a "pariah" whose outings do more harm than good and who complain that Rogers is no respecter of privacy. Of course, I disagree. Yes, the stories of Larry Craig and others present a seamy side of gay cruising for public scrutiny - a public that has little knowledge or interest in how few or how many self-identified gay men may actually take part in such antics. But it should be obvious to Rogers' detractors that the legislative damage inflicted upon LGBT people over decades-long careers by these closeted self-hating legislators far, far exceeds a week or two of naughty, embarrassing-to-some headlines. Rogers says he's got more revelations to come. Personally, I can't wait.