DearMary.Com: To Out Gay DC Staffers?

It reads like an ominous threat: "For Years Our Silence Has Protected You. Today That Protection Ends."

The Washington Blade, the area's gay weekly newspaper, today is running a full-page ad, titled "Final Call to Conscience," that helps fuel anxiety on Capitol Hill involving what local gay rights activists call an "outing craze" over the past two weeks.

The $1,400 color ad -- paid for by the Web site DearMary.com (Mary as in Mary Cheney, Vice President Cheney's openly gay daughter) -- is similar to "Call to Conscience," an ad that ran in the Blade in 1996 when Congress was deliberating the Defense of Marriage Act. John Aravosis, national co-chairman of DearMary.com, said yesterday that as with the previous ad, this one seeks to highlight the "hyprocrisy within gays and lesbians on the Hill who work for anti-gay members of Congress."

Just not sure how I feel about this.

I'm not sure any possible good will outweigh the much more likely harm. It seems to be what the hate groups are willing to do, including the RNC, whose most recent Bush-Cheney ad attacks Kerry for not voting for the Laci Peterson legislation which is just another backdoor way of giving a fetus equal or increased status against that of mother.

To me, a far more plausible issue here is that so many of these "great men of conscience" on the Hill who are willing to push the gay marriage discrimination amendment are people who respect the sanctity of marriage so much, they're often involved with multiple women during their one sanctioned marriage, while others show their honor of marriage by having 3-4-5 divorces under their belts.