How Many Pink Elephants Can You Fit Into A Congressional Cloakroom?

Around 200 according to this article in today's Washington Post.

If only the conservative/religious right knew! Well, this is only the 10,000th article on this topic, so they do know...at least their leaders do. But hypocrisy is a funny thing; as long as gay staffers stay in the closet, there's an eerie politesse as work. Its discussed, its touched on in the hearings currently underway, but nobody picks it up any more than in this article.

Imagine if all 200 of those republicans staffers came out? At once. Before the mid-terms.

Closeted queers working for Republican lawmakers can talk all they want about "change from the inside" and their fundamental adherence to basic Republican principles...but does an ethical person really think its o.k. to be gay and work for Rick Santorum? Other than Rick Santorum, I mean.

Coming out would be an act of atonement for these people. Outing them -- those out there who have "the list" -- would hardly be outing as usual.