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Here’s the type of conversation you get when you place a homophobic politician in the same room with the homophobic president of a homophobic organization that preaches intolerance under the guise of love and family values.

If homosexuals want to avoid discrimination they should be more discreet about being homosexual, U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, said Tuesday on the radio program of Family Research Council President Tony Perkins.

King and Perkins were discussing the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), a bill that prohibits workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Perkins expressed fear that “someone could come in dressed one day as a woman or a man, the next day they come in dressed as the opposite sex” and an employer would be “helpless to do anything about it.”

King…

“If people wear their sexuality on their sleeve, then they want to bring litigation against someone that they would point their finger at and say “you discriminate,” it is an entrapment that is legalized by the ENDA Act, it appears to, and its a violation of the individual rights of employers to, at their own discretion, decide who they want to hire and who they want to fire. We don’t need more federal mandates. And we surely don’t need a political statement, and that’s what this is, too. This is the homosexual activist lobby taking it out on the rest of society. They are demanding affirmation for their lifestyle. That’s at the bottom of this.”

Only one who is of the belief that homosexuality is a perversion which requires secrecy and should be kept hidden from the good people of society could make these type of statements.  For what other other possible reason should gays and lesbians be any more discreet than heterosexuals in proclaiming who they are?

The argument that keeping silent on one’s non-straight sexual orientation is a way to avoid discrimination is nonsense.  If not, then we could easily extrapolate the same thinking to religion.  Jews and Muslims who kept their religion secret from others would never have to worry about facing discrimination from religious bigots Christians .  We might want to apply the same idea to race.  Perhaps if African-Americans wore ski masks, long-sleeved shirts and gloves in public they would not offend the gentle sensibilities of racists white folk and thus never face their scorn.

If you have issues with gays and lesbians being who they are then may I suggest that it is you who has the problem.  Seek counseling.  There are cures for irrational fear, hate and bigotry I hope.

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Jerry Falwell is turning in his grave.

PHILADELPHIA — The old tactic of dragging out an opponent’s sexual skeletons for political gain is being turned on its head in the City of Brotherly Love.

In a left-leaning district anchored by a roughly three-square-block area known as the Gayborhood, where gay pride rainbows grace even the street signs, a state representative accuses her foe of pretending to be bisexual to win votes.

Rep. Babette Josephs says Gregg Kravitz, her challenger in the May 18 Democratic primary for the 182nd District House seat, told her he was gay, then appeared at a campaign event with a woman who introduced herself as his girlfriend.

“I outed him as a straight person, and now he goes around telling people, quote, ‘I swing both ways,’” Josephs told supporters April 15 in recorded comments at a fundraiser at a downtown pub. “That’s quite a respectful way to talk about sexuality.”

So is it now a plus to be gay, lesbian or bisexual when running for office?

A spokesman for the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund…

“There are only a few places where being openly LGBT might be a net plus: in this district in Philadelphia, Dupont Circle in Washington, the Castro in San Francisco,” he said. “In the vast majority of places — and vast majority is an understatement — it’s still a hurdle.”

“I outed him as a straight person.”  There’s my quote of the week right there.

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