I believe people’s private lives are generally nobody else’s business, but there are exceptions. “The personal is the political,” they say, and that is true when policies affect lives or when hypocritically grandstanding to take away people’s rights under the veneer of “moral values.”

This brings us to the Republican Party. Pretty much, if you work at the upper echelons of this administration, you are complicit in its gay-bashing, and the American people deserve to know that for all the rhetoric, you, an LGBT person, are employed there. Same goes for Congress: if you advocate measures that deny gays and lesbians equal rights, or if you fail to raise your voice against such measures that others bring, your are participating in an injustice. If you yourself are in the closet, then the American people deserve to know where all your blustering is coming from. (On the other hand, if you’re out and advocate anti-gay measures, well, that’s just sad but at least voters would know what they’re getting and where you’re coming from.)

So, all that said, here’s an article on the administration’s “closet heterosexuals” and how the mainstream media is complicit in not discussing their personal lives and rumors around them when it is the administration itself insisting that personal lives are the purview of government.