Republicans Shouldn't Employ Gays?

Sunday December 12, 2004

The Christian Right's war on gays continues as the call goes out for Republican politicians to stop hiring or employing gays. Apparently being gay is so contrary to Republican principles that it isn't even acceptable to have a gay person on staff, regardless of that person's political views. Gays, you just aren't welcome.

Agape Press reports that Joe Glover, president of the Virginia-based Family Policy Network, wants Republican politicians to start purging gays from their staffs:

Glover says homosexual publications have outed at least six members of the senator's office as homosexuals. He says one homosexual activist even went so far as to say Allen had the "gayest office on Capitol Hill." Pro-family conservatives, he says, need to make sure Senator Allen hears their voices. "If someone is going to run the day-to-day operations for the Republican apparatus to elect U.S. senators across the country, then dog-gone-it, it better not be somebody who practices a lifestyle that is diametrically opposed to the evangelical Christian base that delivered George W. Bush and the Republicans in the Senate the victory they saw in November," he says. Glover says Allen's executive director recently resigned because he was outed as a homosexual

Dave Neiwert notes that things like this make the idea of gays being "the new Jews" far less hyperbolic than it at first appears — and he's right. What do they want next, to make it illegal to hire or employ "practicing" homosexuals? Criminalization of homosexuality? Why, yes — that's exactly what some want. Thus far, I haven't seen much from mainstream Republican leaders denouncing such attitudes. I wonder why?

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