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Originally Posted by willravel
Republicans aren't likely to vote for homosexuals. They hid the truth from their bigoted voters. How can one "get what you vote for", when the politician is blatently misrepresenting himself? You can't. Poltiicans should be heald accountable for misleading voters.
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They
are getting what they vote for, whether they see it that way or not.
Or is there a material difference between a heterosexual who supports anti-gay legislation and a closet case who does the same? Politically speaking?
I don't see one.
Thus, I don't see any value in the outing.
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Originally Posted by pigglet
i can understand inconsistency. i can understand lying about your private life. but i think when you do it, you're basically opening yourself up to being called on it.
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Closet cases who make themselves public figures, hypocrites or not, open themselves up to outings. That doesn't justify it in either case. Pointing out hypocrisy is only useful when you're trying to coax the hypocrite into improving himself - and that's pretty clearly not the aim of people like Maher.
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but this is a question of fundamental character misrepresentation.
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Fundamental how? What does this mean?
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what i do think is relevant is the misrepresentation.
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But it's not
political misrepresentation. It's not relevant to his status as a politician.
Even if fundamentalist Christians are convinced it is.
He's still doing the job he was hired to do.