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I think this whole thing is asinine and really, just a bunch of right wing rabble rousing in the hopes that they can deflect some attention from the fact that their party is falling apart.
Although I'd prefer that people could just drop the tags of black/white or gay/straight people have built identities about themself and the people that have similar traits.
martin makes a great comparison to the use of outings to show closeted gay people as hypocrites. I think it's a lot easier to see the analogy by looking at a closeted republican gays. The truth is that republican gays are simply in sleeping with the enemy. It is the Republican party that seeks the ability to treat gays as subhumans, not the Democrats. Republicans actively seek:
Banning gay marriage
The ability to discriminate against gays in the workplace, and
Elimination of unmarried partner benefits.
I think it is necessary for the gay community to out closeted gay politicians that choose to align with republicans and seek out anti-gay policies. I also think that straight people should not get involved with these disputes within the gay community (ie outing of a closeted gay is ok if done by other gays, not ok if done by straight people).
Taking this back to the issue of 'oreos,' many Black leaders see the Republicans as being an enemy to black americans. If they choose to attack him for what they percieve as being a 'traitor to their kind' and call him an oreo, then that is their fight. White democrats should stay out of it.
The other issue is that Republicans are trying to attack the dem party as a whole becuase they stayed out. Deciding not to stay out and not condemn does not equal agreement with a tactic.
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