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Better OUT Than In?

There’s a controversial documentary about closeted politicians, slated to hit some big cities soon.

Outrage is a film that’s said to out closeted politicians who have anti-gay voting records. More about the film and some words from the director may be found at Advocate.com.

We have the right to freedom of speech. Which means we are entitled to say what we please.

But is it right? Is it right to disrupts someones whole way of living because they were hypocritical or becauase their methods are disagreeable? For those who have had to come out to family and friends, could you imagine someone outing you prematurely? Imagine the outing be backed up by video and photo evidence. Maybe its a question of ethics, though we havent been treating right, do we help the situation by turning someone’s life into something thats damn near preverse?

Let’s face it: outing someone is saying you believe what they do is wrong, and you think everyone should know how wrong the person is for doing it.

It has a lot to do with the intentions of the accuser. Are you outing someone for being gay, or being a hypocrite? Since gay is the newest way to insult someone, is that the intention? Being gay can ruin someone’s career especially that of a political nature.  So do you feel that outing someone makes it better for anyone involved?

I believe that we are all responsible for our own actions, however horrid or uplifting.

If some side-straddling politician likes to get his groove on in some seedy gay club on the weekends, that’s his business. If the same politician votes no on same sex marriage, isnt it up to him to look himself in the mirror at night? If you agree in outing someone, how does that help? The politician is going to be so busy spinning the story he may be doing his job even less than before. Or maybe the hopes are that the politician would put his foot in his mouth and change his vote around?

Answer this for me: Is there any good in outing the bad?

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