Michael Rogers, a gay rights activist with a blog at http://www.blogactive.com/, has been leading a crusaide to expose hypocracy in the Republican party vis a vis the Marriage Amendment endorsed by Bush. He has so far exposed several gay senior aids to Republican lawmakers who favor the amendment and other anti gay rights. The outed are
Jim Conzelman, Chief of Staff to Mike Oxley (R-OH).
Lee Cohen, Press Secretary of Mellissa Hart (R-PA).
Kirk Fordham, an official in the Mel Martinez for Senate Campaign in Florida (Mel Martinez used to be HUD Secretary in the Bush Whitehouse, until Bush asked him to run for Senate to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Bob Graham (D-FL), who unsuccesfully ran for President last year).
Robet O'Conner, Chief of Staff to Peter King (R-NY).
Former NY Mayor Ed Koch, a Democrat supporting Bush.
His latest exposure was Congressman Ed Schrock, from Virigina. Congressman Schrock is a co-sponser of the Marriage Amendment, yet Michael Rogers found a recording of Schrock calling a gay sex line. The audio recording is on the web site. As a result, Congressman Schrock abruptly ended his campaign yesterday, with no mention of the allegations (unlike Governor McGreevey, who admited his homosexuality). The Republicans will now have to find another candidate.
Michael Rogers promised that he will expose another gay Representative, as well as "highly placed officials in the Bush Administration", so stay tuned .....
Rogers justifies his outing by comparing this to a hypothetical senior PETA official who is actively involved in banning the sale of meat, yet sneaks to McDonalds to eat a Big Mac. Under that scenario, the PETA official's private eating habits become a public interest.
Alon.
P.S. Rogers claims that he was about to expose Gov. James McGreevey (D-NJ), a supporter of the Marriage Amendment, but McGreevey beat him to it. |
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