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	<title>Comments on: Withers: Jack Kemp&#8217;s complicated past</title>
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		<title>By: Rashuab</title>
		<link>http://www.365gay.com/blog/050309-jack-kemps-relationship-to-race-and-gay-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-55032</link>
		<dc:creator>Rashuab</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 03:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree with Tom Felkner.

I am over the GAY and LESBIAN politicians who play &quot;straight&quot; in the public eye, passing nasty laws, legislation and promoting hate towards the LGBT community when they themselves are gay.

I have heard more rumors that Bobby Jindal, gov. of LA (R) is another one that is in the closet.  We know because someone is married to opposite sex doesn&#039;t mean much.  I guess the truth always comes out, even if the person never does.

I wonder if the truth about Jindal will prevail before or after he runs for President in the future or he&#039;ll be exposed like Larry Craig, Haggard or Foley?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree with Tom Felkner.</p>
<p>I am over the GAY and LESBIAN politicians who play &#8220;straight&#8221; in the public eye, passing nasty laws, legislation and promoting hate towards the LGBT community when they themselves are gay.</p>
<p>I have heard more rumors that Bobby Jindal, gov. of LA (R) is another one that is in the closet.  We know because someone is married to opposite sex doesn&#8217;t mean much.  I guess the truth always comes out, even if the person never does.</p>
<p>I wonder if the truth about Jindal will prevail before or after he runs for President in the future or he&#8217;ll be exposed like Larry Craig, Haggard or Foley?</p>
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		<title>By: jonboy</title>
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		<dc:creator>jonboy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 02:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is the first I heard of supposed &#039;gay&#039; activity by Jack Kemp.  I am no friend of his, for sure, but why the continuation of the rumors?  Where are some facts or links that say this?  Just repeating the rumor does not make it true but certainly causes unfairness.  Whether he slept with guys or not doesn&#039;t not rectify his behavior of supporting anything &#039;anti-gay- or &#039;anti-equal&#039; positions.  Religion raises its ugly head again on this one.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the first I heard of supposed &#8216;gay&#8217; activity by Jack Kemp.  I am no friend of his, for sure, but why the continuation of the rumors?  Where are some facts or links that say this?  Just repeating the rumor does not make it true but certainly causes unfairness.  Whether he slept with guys or not doesn&#8217;t not rectify his behavior of supporting anything &#8216;anti-gay- or &#8216;anti-equal&#8217; positions.  Religion raises its ugly head again on this one.</p>
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		<title>By: Gar</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 02:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>He caused a lot of pain and suffering amongst GLBT people. Glad to see him go.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He caused a lot of pain and suffering amongst GLBT people. Glad to see him go.</p>
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		<title>By: Frank</title>
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		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 18:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t give a [crap] how anti-racist Jack Kemp was.  Decent human beings don&#039;t call for anti-gay witch hunts among school teachers.

Kemp was a piece of [crap].  I am glad he&#039;s dead.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t give a [crap] how anti-racist Jack Kemp was.  Decent human beings don&#8217;t call for anti-gay witch hunts among school teachers.</p>
<p>Kemp was a piece of [crap].  I am glad he&#8217;s dead.</p>
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		<title>By: Victor J Kinzer</title>
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		<dc:creator>Victor J Kinzer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 17:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To Tom,

The old assumption that closeted conservative politicians are self hating as as naive as the presumption in this article that his bed mates don&#039;t matter.  If he is against gay rights then what he does in his bed TOTALLY matters.  It matters because it betrays him as a hypocrite, and that is political capital waiting to be used.  In the fight for our rights whatever play in the public arena that gets us to where we need to go without using dishonesty is fair game.

That said, the presumption that a conservative politician who sleeps with men and votes against our rights is self hating betrays a misplaced trust in humanity and belief that all humans feel the same amount of empathy for their fellow humans that you obviously do.  The fact is that their political career may just be more important to them, and they might be slightly sociopathic and unfeeling.  Don&#039;t by shy about it, be willing to call them the cold hearted sub human beasts they are.  Calling them self hating turns them into victims of a cruel system.  I really just don&#039;t feel like giving them that much credit.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To Tom,</p>
<p>The old assumption that closeted conservative politicians are self hating as as naive as the presumption in this article that his bed mates don&#8217;t matter.  If he is against gay rights then what he does in his bed TOTALLY matters.  It matters because it betrays him as a hypocrite, and that is political capital waiting to be used.  In the fight for our rights whatever play in the public arena that gets us to where we need to go without using dishonesty is fair game.</p>
<p>That said, the presumption that a conservative politician who sleeps with men and votes against our rights is self hating betrays a misplaced trust in humanity and belief that all humans feel the same amount of empathy for their fellow humans that you obviously do.  The fact is that their political career may just be more important to them, and they might be slightly sociopathic and unfeeling.  Don&#8217;t by shy about it, be willing to call them the cold hearted sub human beasts they are.  Calling them self hating turns them into victims of a cruel system.  I really just don&#8217;t feel like giving them that much credit.</p>
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		<title>By: Aaron S.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Aaron S.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 04:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tom has a good point - homophobia, injustice, and even hate crimes towards gay citizens probably stem from a sublimated attraction to the same gender.  The more we can uncover this &quot;dirty little secret&quot;, the harder it will be for this kind of hypocrisy to exist.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tom has a good point &#8211; homophobia, injustice, and even hate crimes towards gay citizens probably stem from a sublimated attraction to the same gender.  The more we can uncover this &#8220;dirty little secret&#8221;, the harder it will be for this kind of hypocrisy to exist.</p>
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		<title>By: Michelle N</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michelle N</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 23:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I was a bit skeptical he was ahead of his time racially speaking. So I did some reading, and yeah, he was.

It will be interesting to see how the rumors play out.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was a bit skeptical he was ahead of his time racially speaking. So I did some reading, and yeah, he was.</p>
<p>It will be interesting to see how the rumors play out.</p>
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		<title>By: Tom Felkner</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tom Felkner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 19:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you think Kemp&#039;s sexuality does not count, then you are naive at best...an apologist at worst.  The self hatred of closeted gay politicians cause great damage to the civil rights of the LGBT community.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you think Kemp&#8217;s sexuality does not count, then you are naive at best&#8230;an apologist at worst.  The self hatred of closeted gay politicians cause great damage to the civil rights of the LGBT community.</p>
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