Burn Down The Log Closet
BURN DOWN THE LOG CLOSET
By Moksha Bruce Todd
mokshanews@sbcglobal.net
Most of us know what it is like to live in the closet. We are familiar with the personal emotional strain we go through when in the closet. Thankfully, we also know the release of tension when we are finally out.
For many years the Log Cabin Republican Club has functioned in an atmosphere of hate and mistrust of gay people. They have often defended being in the Republican Party with excuses such as, “The people in the party need to see and know gays and will in turn understand and accept gays more readily.” They considered themselves as “out” to a limited degree. In reality, they were just peeking out the door and timidly at that.
Now the Mark Foley incident comes up. We have learned that there has been a quietly kept secret; i.e., there is a group of gay people in the administration and Republican Party who work in the background! DUHHH The Religious Right has responded with surprise. Pat Buchanan has called it a “ring” of gays. He has said that their being gay is not important but that by hiding it they are lying.
The Log Closet Club has hurt us all. The enemy now uses their hidden ness as proof that gays lie and mislead. They are upset because they have just “learned” that there are gays all around them; something we have told them for years. They say we hide our sexuality; a fact that exists because of their hate and intolerance. That is similar to blaming the rape victim for “asking for it” by wearing a short skirt (something that many on the Right believe, by the way).
All gay people must stand up for those who have the courage to come out, to let their world know whom they really are. The time has come to OUT all who are in the closet, especially those in the Log Closet Republican Club. They do harm to us all while protecting their individual economic, professional, or political desires. They act in concert with our detractors. They are guilty of the old adage, “Silence Is Complicity”.
OUTing people who are doing harm to the whole group is the only way that the members of the Log Closet Republican Club can be expected to help the movement over their selfish desires. OUTing is considered by many to be too invasive to the individual’s right of privacy. All I say about that is: The Jews in 1930’s Germany failed to hold to account other Jews known as “Copos.” Years later, in the concentration camps the “copos” were the Jewish jailers who worked with the Nazis for their own individual survival.
By Moksha Bruce Todd
mokshanews@sbcglobal.net
Most of us know what it is like to live in the closet. We are familiar with the personal emotional strain we go through when in the closet. Thankfully, we also know the release of tension when we are finally out.
For many years the Log Cabin Republican Club has functioned in an atmosphere of hate and mistrust of gay people. They have often defended being in the Republican Party with excuses such as, “The people in the party need to see and know gays and will in turn understand and accept gays more readily.” They considered themselves as “out” to a limited degree. In reality, they were just peeking out the door and timidly at that.
Now the Mark Foley incident comes up. We have learned that there has been a quietly kept secret; i.e., there is a group of gay people in the administration and Republican Party who work in the background! DUHHH The Religious Right has responded with surprise. Pat Buchanan has called it a “ring” of gays. He has said that their being gay is not important but that by hiding it they are lying.
The Log Closet Club has hurt us all. The enemy now uses their hidden ness as proof that gays lie and mislead. They are upset because they have just “learned” that there are gays all around them; something we have told them for years. They say we hide our sexuality; a fact that exists because of their hate and intolerance. That is similar to blaming the rape victim for “asking for it” by wearing a short skirt (something that many on the Right believe, by the way).
All gay people must stand up for those who have the courage to come out, to let their world know whom they really are. The time has come to OUT all who are in the closet, especially those in the Log Closet Republican Club. They do harm to us all while protecting their individual economic, professional, or political desires. They act in concert with our detractors. They are guilty of the old adage, “Silence Is Complicity”.
OUTing people who are doing harm to the whole group is the only way that the members of the Log Closet Republican Club can be expected to help the movement over their selfish desires. OUTing is considered by many to be too invasive to the individual’s right of privacy. All I say about that is: The Jews in 1930’s Germany failed to hold to account other Jews known as “Copos.” Years later, in the concentration camps the “copos” were the Jewish jailers who worked with the Nazis for their own individual survival.
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