... and wins the Roy Cohn Prize!
Joe.My.God details for us just how much Mehlman richly deserves that prize.
--Mehlman endorses Rick Santorum.
--Mehlman backs the 2005 Federal Marriage Amendment.
--Mehlman backs a 2004 Ohio ballot initiative to ban gay marriage.
And there is so much more including the fact that 21 states banned gay marriage during his tenure as GOP chairman, all of them with the endorsement of the GOP.
I just don't get it. I understand being in the closet and avoiding issues. I even understand closeted guys saying they oppose something like equal rights or gay marriage just so suspicion is diverted from them. I understand silence even in the face of evil. What I just don't get is making it your life's work to hurt, undermine, and literally demonize people just like you who's only crime is trying to go about their own quiet lives and loves.
ReplyDeleteWhat I understand least of all is the "olly-olly oxen free" (yes, I checked the spelling – there are a number of variants) nature of coming out of the closet. All of a sudden, even extreme persecution of your own is forgiven and perhaps grounds for an understanding chuckle. Whatever Schadenfreud we enjoy from a public homophobe coming out of the closet, it doesn't justify the lighthearted tone I'm seeing in the gay media. The response should be, "Good for you. Now sir, I believe you have some reparations to make."
Roy Cohn prize- rich rich rich! Thank you for this post.
ReplyDeleteFran (I am at work so my normal id is not operational!)
P.S. Do you think he ever told Rick Santorum that that whole man-on-dog sex thing was more than a little off?
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Fran again!
"What I understand least of all is the "olly-olly oxen free" (yes, I checked the spelling – there are a number of variants) nature of coming out of the closet. All of a sudden, even extreme persecution of your own is forgiven and perhaps grounds for an understanding chuckle. Whatever Schadenfreud we enjoy from a public homophobe coming out of the closet, it doesn't justify the lighthearted tone I'm seeing in the gay media. The response should be, "Good for you. Now sir, I believe you have some reparations to make.""
ReplyDeleteI'm not forgiving him, and neither is Joe.My.God.
The whole thing mystifies me as well.
I think the difference is that gays can hide, and they can distance themselves from their own kind. I think in the case of people like Mehlman and Roy Cohn (and George "lift my luggage" Rekkers) there is a lot of self-hatred projected on to their own kind.
Indeed, he has reparations to make.
I feel sorry for Roy. Not that he doesn't have a lot to account for, but when I think about the level of self hatered one has to have inorder to live the kind of life he has been living its mind boggling.
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