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Originally Posted by cthulu23
It's not "outing" when the individual mentioned is already out of the closet. The practice of "outing" gays always leaves me uneasy.....doesn't every individual have a right to privacy? However, this doesn't apply in this case as Ms cheney has been openly gay for years.
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acknowledged...if you're sympathetic to the larger message, then it doesn't seem like an outing. but knowing the fundy types...it's largely going to be news to them. dick didn't exactly trumpet this to the world. and even if they did know...kerry is bringing it up as a wedge between them and bush. it strikes me that that's a negative use of mary's queer idenity, something closely akin to outing, IMO.
there's only one revision i would make to his comments. don't mention mary by name. other than that, he was spot on.