I'm usually on the fence when it comes to outing someone against their will. I know how horrified I would've been if someone had taken that choice away from me. John Aravosis
makes a strong argument about why those rules do not apply to staffers of anti-gay congressmen. I agree with him on this one; if you're gay and helping that anti-gay Republican garden gnome Rick Santorum, you're a schmuck and deserve to be exposed.
It's high time we stopped treating grown men and women as children who simply need a hug. These people don't need a hug; they need a swift kick in the ass. They are, for the most part, well-educated, highly paid adults who are perfectly aware of the harm they are causing.
Yet still they choose to perform their roles. To suggest that all, or even a majority, are closet cases living on the fringes of gay life, and thus deserving of our pity, is a fiction. They may work against our civil rights by day, but they surely enjoy its benefits by night.
