Reply #21: Absolutely NOT!

[Xithras]

One of my boyfriends in high school blew his head off because some asshole outed him and his family found out. I decided at that moment that being out is a PERSONAL choice, and that NOBODY has ANY right to interfere with a closeted persons decision to hide from reality. Generally, people only stay in the closet if they have reason to.

As far as I'm concerned, outing a closeted gay person is a form of gay bashing, and I'd happily visit a great deal of physical harm on anybody I caught doing it. It's not just uncool, it's flat out discriminatory assault. You are deliberately hurting a person for their sexuality if you out someone, and anyone who does so should be punished harshly for it. :grr:

I have a gay relative who is solidly in the closet for reasons that I admittedly have never understood. I've talked to him for years to try and make him more confortable with himself, but as far as I'm concerned he can stay closeted until HE is ready to tell the world who he is. Nobody else has the right to make that choice.

This isn't a political issue. I'd expect this kind of crap from Republicans because they tend to be soulless and immoral anyway, but what's that say about Democrats who engage in the same thing? By outing gays, ANY GAYS, who don't want to be outed, you simply prove yourself to be as inhuman and soulless as they are.

:rant: