Reply #411: If your cousin runs around lecturing in public on this subject, [View All]

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and belongs to gay organizations, then he is, for all practical purposes, out. So the issue here is not your cousin's privacy so much as his desire that others keep his secrets for him. It's like me hanging out in a gay bar and then getting angry if someone says that he saw me there.

As for invalid comparisons, what I meant is that there's a big difference between, say, a smalltown school teacher and a Congressman. A Congressman is, without any doubt, a public figure, and a very powerful one. If he uses that power to hurt a community to which he belongs, he is at the very least a stinking hypocrite.

I feel no obligation to protect stinking hypocrites. That doesn't mean that I will run around town putting up posters outing him, but neither will I lie for him.