it's one of those days i have a few different ideas for the blog, from doomsday cheney to an amazingly horrible protest scheduled for UW campus that equates abortion to genocide.... but, it's a beautiful day out and our topics have been pretty serious this week... so i decided on my third idea.
for those that haven't heard, kirby dick has come out with a new film (see trailer below) that "outs" anti-gay politicians that also happen to be allegedly gay. i agree with the filmmaker that gay rights is one of the most important "civil rights issue of its time in this country" (see interview below), but i'm struggling a bit about whether outing these politicians is ethical. i guess i'm lean towards yes... they are public figures, they are taking advantage of prejudice as a political device, it is totally hypocritical and straight politicians that mess around get "outed" for their non-monogamy all the time. but, i kinda feel uncomfortable about that last one too. hmmmm. what do you guys think?
interview with kirby dick in the advocate
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i think if they're preaching the opposite they should be ousted...
On the one hand I feel like two wrongs don't make a right.
On the other hand these guys are just so incredibly hypocritical and an argument could be made that they opened themselves up to this.
Is it necessarily hypocritical for a closeted gay to be publically anti-gay marriage? It clearly is hypocritical to be a closeted gay who advocates for criminalization of homosexuality because then he is saying that out gays are criminals but he is not. But I do know gay men who are not in favor of gay marriage because they are anti-marriage; if they can take that position, so can a closeted gay person.
i believe their designation as "anti-gay" goes much further than being against gay marriage.
it is interesting to think about whether being anti-gay marriage is anti-gay or not though. i don't quite understand the gay person's argument against gay marriage. if you don't want gay marriage then don't have one, seems to make more sense to me. i certainly can understand why people can be individually against marriage, or think that advocacy and it's donations could be directed in other directions, but to be against the right to marry as a gay person... i would like to hear a stronger argument than the ones i have heard so far.
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