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Originally Posted by PiKA2001
How nice of you to lump homosexuality with all of this deviant behavior. Maybe THIS is why he waited to come out. Maybe he wanted to be able to concentrate on his job without having to assure people in D.C. that he wasn't molesting little boys.
The fact that you even use words like that just shows me that some gay people wait to come out not because they aren't ready to but because you (general) are not ready for it.
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and you hit it right on the head.
This is why legislators have such a hard time passing laws for gay marriage and so many people rail against it.
There are still a lot of people who are unaccepting of homosexuality and even go as far as being against any laws that help advance thier cause. Look no further than the decision in California and what kind of uproar it's causing.
Look at Virginia who repealed civil rights law for gays.
PiKA...no matter how you cut it, there are segments of the population that still find homosexuality reprehensible and it riles these people (because they <ex. Fred Phelps> find it a deviant behavior) up more when they find out that officials in any high ranking postion not only supports this but that is part of their backgorund...we both know this, right?
And that same reasoning that you made in the beginning may also have been the reason why Barney frank came out also...it's just one less 'scandal' to deal with.
Not only that, when he had folks like Karl Rove who by some counts, anti-gay, Mehlman coming out would definently have been bad timing.
Question now is, what does Karl Rove have to say now after all this time, that the guy at the 'top' of their food chain was gay...hehehe.