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Tempest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-10 11:27 PM
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Is Lindsey Graham about to be outed?

http://wonkette.com/433064/loathsome-southern-dandy-lindsey-graham-about-to-be-outed

Lindsey Graham, South Carolina’s favorite lifelong bachelor and former military prosecutor, is always reliably against homosexuals having any basic human rights in America because Lindsey’s a Republican, y’all. Anyway, famous outer-of-self-hating-queers Mike Rogers says he’s got pictures of one of Lindsey’s boy toys leaving Lindsey’s house. This would be SHOCKING because come on, everybody knows Republicans cannot be gay because Jesus did not make gays.

Mike Rogers says on his Twitter:

I wonder if Lindsey Graham knows I have pictures of a man who spent the night at his house. pls RT
– 10:57 AM Dec 18th

Just reached lawyer at home. Meeting set for Tues. on releasing pix of man who spent night at Lindsey Graham’s.
– 11:05 AM Dec 18th

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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 12:06 AM
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1. Lindsey Graham is gay .......... end of story
Edited on Fri Dec-24-10 12:07 AM by Angry Dragon
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Recursion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 12:14 AM
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2. He's been asked and has said he's "a loner"
Which conceivably puts him in the "Q" of "LGBTQ", but I'm very uncomfortable questioning someone's professed sexual identity -- plenty of MSMs don't identify as "gay", and I don't see what's gained by trying to make them.
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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 09:16 AM
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6. When they take a position of gayness being bad or evil
then I think it is fair to question them

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Skip Intro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 01:24 AM
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3. I hate hyocrites, but this forced outing stuff doesn't sit well with me.
Just doesn't. It's like Linda Tripp cubed or something. Not good, imho.
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FLAprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 01:28 AM
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4. When you make a career out of demonizing gay men and women and partake in the same activity you so
viciously condemn you deserve every minute of scrutiny.
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 01:38 AM
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5. IMHO, its okay and not like Linda Tripp. He has power and uses
it against people like himself. If he was just a joe, maybe. but not this. he has earned this karma
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 10:16 AM
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9. Depends on how the info was obtained.
If it's nothing more than photos taken from across the street, or interviews conducted fairly, then I say go ahead.

If Graham needs to come to terms with what he is, then it's unfair that only others are harmed by his use of political power. He ought to partake.
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 09:26 AM
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7. I'd rather he be ousted.
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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 09:27 AM
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8. Shocking? Hardly
Sheesh, he was "outted" (what an awful term) here when this place started up. Even the Freepers all but accept it. So what's the big deal? His hypocrisy is another deal...and extremely transparent considering how this rumor has circulated for so long. Maybe...just maybe a person's private life can actually return to such.
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MH1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 10:24 AM
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10. I'm trying hard to care ... really ... ok not really
He'll still be a slimy douche either way, right?

The only way this helps is if it means he gets replaced by someone more liberal. How likely is that, in South Carolina, in the current political climate? and he's not up again til 2014 anyway.

And I also have some misgivings about the whole outing thing. I guess it depends on the circumstances. But really, someone's sexual orientation is no one else's business other than their intimate associates.
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PCIntern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 10:38 AM
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11. As a fellow Phillies fan,
I respectfully, but heartily disagree with you...if you make a living making it difficult for individuals to function as Americans, and you yourself are in fact, part of that group, it invites the charge of Hypocrisy in Extremis.

OTOH, we have the best starting rotation in the history of MLB...
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DefenseLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 12:30 PM
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12. Buy the ticket, take the ride. n/t
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