Mike Rogers the proprietor of BlogActive has just outed GOP Illinois Senatorial candidate Mark Kirk. Rogers is a Gay Activist who specializes in outing public figures who support anti-gay policies and programs. He is the one who outed Mark Foley, Larry Craig, David Dreier and a number of GOP senior staffers.
Mike Rogers has a 100% accuracy rate in his outings. Here he explains his thinking on Mark Kirk:
Until now, Mark Kirk elected not to play the typical Washington game. Instead of supporting his party's dismal record on gay rights, Kirk received Human Rights Campaign ratings of 67% in 2002, 88% in 2004, 76% in 2006 and 85% in 2008. That's more impressive than a lot of Democrats.
But when Kirk voted against ending DADT, Rogers decided to go ahead. As he explains:
In an effort to move the base in the Illinois Senate race, Kirk decided to tack right and that means throwing the gays (like him) under the bus. And once he voted that way, the phone began to ring. Not one or two, or three but 5 separate individuals contacted me about the now divorced Mr. Kirk.
Rogers interviewed several men and checked into their backgrounds. Once he found out that they were who they claimed to be and had known Kirk in college or law school and had identical descriptions of Kirk's anatomy, he decided to go ahead. Adding to this, Rogers personally had knowledge of Kirk's gayness:
It was at that party that I met Mark Kirk. I was introduced to him by the person I came with and at the time did not realize he was a member of the House. As my friend walked away, Kirk asked me if the man who introduced us was "single or attached." When I said that he had a partner, Kirk replied disappointingly, "oh, well." At the end of that interaction I walked away and didn't think much of it at the time.
Then Kirk became a hypocrite. Kirk voted against repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell, despite his being a closeted gay man in the military. As a Commander in the Navy Reserves Kirk has voted to keep a policy that if he were investigated under he would be tossed.
So, throwing this into the Illinois senate race along with the military issues should be interesting.
The irony is Mark Kirk voted against himself on DADT. He is a closeted gay man serving in the military.