Graham has had it coming for a while now. Not because he’s a
Republican. But because he’s an anti-gay Republican. And while it’s one
thing to be gay and a closet case, it’s quite another to be a hypocrite,
an anti-gay gay, someone who uses his power to harm others in the name
of morality, all the while knowing secretly that he is one of the others.
In this case, Graham’s hypocrisy that broke the camel’s back is
immigration reform. I have it on good authority from someone intimately
involved in the immigration reform process that Lindsey Graham is the
central reason that the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA), which
would help stop the forced deportation of foreign-born gay spouses, is
being blocked from being added to the immigration bill. While other
Senators might be bluffing about their opposition to addressing the
immigration needs of gay binational couples in immigration reform,
Graham isn’t bluffing.
The obvious question arises as to why Graham is holding gays hostage in the immigration bill.
One
theory is that UAFA is Graham’s legislative beard. A beard is a woman a
gay man socializes with in order to throw off suspicions that he’s
actually gay. In this case, the theory goes, Lindsey Graham is using
UAFA in order to throw off the suspicions of the Tea Party voters back
home who are challenging him in a high-profile primary. Their suspicions
are that: A) Graham is a liberal; and B) he’s gay.
Graham’s support for immigration reform is hardly helping him dispel
the closet liberal image. But his opposition to UAFA, the theory goes,
is a two-fer: It let’s Graham oppose something, anything, related to
immigration reform (his support for the measure has been a thorn in his
side with the far-right back home), and it has the added benefit of
bashing gays. Everyone knows that a closeted gay man wouldn’t bash his
own people, right? So bashing UAFA “proves” that Graham is straight.
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| Roy Cohn, a closeted gay man who destroyed the lives of other gay men. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection.) |
If Lindsey Graham thinks an open discussion about the evils of
homosexuality is necessary to further our country’s, or his own, best
interests, then let’s have at it.
Much more at Americablog.com
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