As the risk of Godwinizing, I have to openly wonder if the Republicans are beginning their purge of gays, open or in the closet from the party.
When Andrew Sullivan spoke on CNN yesterday, the banner read "Andrew Sullivan: Openly Gay" (as if no one knew that).
http://boozhy.typepad.com/...
Now MSNBC is saying that Representative Jim Kolbe, who is retiring this year, is under investigation from the Justice Investigation for a camping trip that he took in 1996.
A trip, in which two pages, Kolbe's sister and five staff members.
WASHINGTON - Federal prosecutors in Arizona have opened a preliminary investigation of a camping trip Congressman Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz., took 10 years ago that included two teenage congressional pages, a Justice Department spokesman told NBC News.
However, the former page -- who is the one to whom Kolbe allegedly paid special attention -- said he had a "blast" on the trip and did not report anything improper to his parents or any House officials after the trip. He said he has a favorable impression of the page program to this day and likes Kolbe.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...
From Wikipedia:
The Night of the Long Knives (June 30 and July 1, 1934) (German, Nacht der langen Messer), also known as Reichsmordwoche, "Operation Hummingbird" or "the Blood Purge", was a lethal purge of Adolf Hitler's potential political rivals in the Sturmabteilung (SA; also known as storm troopers or brownshirts). The SA was the paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party that had helped the Nazis rise to power in the Twenties, culminating with Hitler being appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933. The name, "Night of the Long Knives", is a reference to the massacre of Vortigern's men by Angle, Jute and Saxon mercenaries in the Arthurian myth.
Occurring over a weekend, the purge targeted SA leaders and members who were associated more with socialism than with nationalism, and hence were viewed as a threat to the continued support for Chancellor Adolf Hitler within the Army and conservative business community that had supported Hitler's rise to power. During this event, however, the Gestapo also targeted conservative rivals and elements within and outside the regime, and the purge did not focus on suppressing the Communists or Social Democrats, the Nazi Party's primary foes from the left.
Official records tally the dead at 77, though some 400 are believed to have been killed.
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Now, I realize that no one is expecting a Nazi-esque purge like in 1934, but I have to seriously wonder if the Republican Party's response will be like the response of the Catholic Church - get rid of the fags, whether or not they are open or not - instead of dealing with the real problem - sweeping conduct under the rug until it is too late.
They are already being assaulted by the worst of the right wing conservatives who see the Republican party under the throes of a sinister cabel of gay men and women (staffers and Representatives), and they are going to have to show that they are responsive to these demands.
It is not going to be pretty over the next few months if you are a gay Republican.