Vanasco: Mike Rogers outs conservative lt. gov.
Super-activist Mike Rogers reports that South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer has sex with men - despite his conservative, pro-Christian stance.
Why does a lt. governor matter? Because he will replace Gov. Mark Sanford if the governor resigns or is impeached (very possible, since the governor is currently dealing with a …
Tags: Activist, Andre Bauer, Christian Stance, Lt Gov, Lt Governor, Mark Sanford, Mike Rogers, Sex With Men, South CarolinaCould Gay Lt. Gov Rumors Be Playing in Favor of Cheating SC Governor?
The bombshell revelation that South Carolina governor Mark Sanford had disappeared to Argentina for a rendezvous with an extramarital romantic interest has failed to elicit calls fro the governor’s resignation from the state’s top officials-in part due to Bauer’s politics, though another factor may also be at work: rumors that the state’s Lieutenant Governor, Andre Bauer, is gay.
Bauer’s sexuality has been a topic of speculation before, most recently when openly lesbian South Carolina politician Linda Ketner, a failed candidate for one of the state’s congressional seats, “outed” several state officials, including Bauer, igniting a controversy about airing and repeating such allegations publicly. See Could Gay Lt. Gov Rumors Be Playing in Favor of Cheating SC Governor?
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Could Gay Lt. Gov Rumors Be Playing in Favor of Cheating SC Governor?
The bombshell revelation that South Carolina governor Mark Sanford had disappeared to Argentina for a rendezvous with an extramarital romantic interest has failed to elicit calls fro the governor’s resignation from the state’s top officials-in part due to Bauer’s politics, though another factor may also be at work: rumors that the state’s Lieutenant Governor, Andre Bauer, is gay.
Bauer’s sexuality has been a topic of speculation before, most recently when openly lesbian South Carolina politician Linda Ketner, a failed candidate for one of the state’s congressional seats, “outed” several state officials, including Bauer, igniting a controversy about airing and repeating such allegations publicly. See Could Gay Lt. Gov Rumors Be Playing in Favor of Cheating SC Governor?
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Lesbian outs South Carolina lawmakers
A progressive Democratic blog recently published an interview with Linda Ketner, a candidate for Congress in the 2008 election, in which she has called out three South Carolina Republicans for being closeted gays. Ketner is herself openly lesbian.
FireDogLake, a left-wing blog, asked Ketner about her 2008 Congressional campaign, which she unfortunately lost by a narrow two percentage points. She has always been upfront about her sexuality, and even campaigned with her partner of nine years. Ketner acknowledges that her sexual preference could have impacted the race and her ultimate loss to conservative Henry Brown, but also made a very interesting comment on South Carolina politics.
“We have more gay people serving in South Carolina than probably any place in the United States; they’re just not out of the closet. We have an awful lot of people in the closet - Lindsey Graham, Glenn McConnell who’s our Senate president pro tem, our Lt Governor [André Bauer]. See South Carolina Congressional Candidate Calls Out Closeted Republicans Gay Wired
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SC House nixes mention of gays in date-abuse bill
(Columbia, SC) South Carolina lawmakers want to prevent violence in teen relationships but won’t allow a new school program aimed at curbing such abuse to mention gay and lesbian partnerships.
State representatives voted overwhelmingly Thursday to bar any mention of homosexual relationships in the new program for middle and high school …
Tags: Columbia Sc, Gay And Lesbian, Gay Lesbian, Gays, Homosexual Relationships, Lawmakers, Partnerships, South Carolina, State Representatives, Teen Relationships, ViolenceMiss California sparks outrage over gay marriage remarks
Mixing a beauty pageant with politics is a recipe for disaster. You could make a strong case for it, anyway.
The two merged last night at the site of the Miss USA pageant in Las Vegas. The result was similar to the fallout after the Miss Teen USA pageant in 2007 when Miss South Carolina gave the greatest non-answer answer perhaps in American history. Both times the non-winner of a pageant got all the attention the next day.
But unlike the pageant two years ago, the contestant in the crossfire didn’t give a nonsensical (and wildly entertaining) answer. The contestant last night, California’s Carrie Prejean, was too articulate in the minds of many and led to some flaring tempers (similar to Janeane Garofalo’s flare-up on Keith Olbermann’s show the other night).
The question posed to the contestant couldn’t be any more incendiary: gay marriage.
Asked judge Perez Hilton to Prejean, “Vermont recently became the 4th state to legalize same-sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit. Why or why not?”
Observers quickly learned that in Hilton’s mind there was only one correct answer. And Prejean picked the wrong one.
“Well I think its great that Americans are able to choose one or the other,” she said. “We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage. And you know what, in my country, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody out there but that’s how I was raised and that’s how I think it should be between a man and a woman. Thank you very much.”
Prejean was greeted with a mixed reaction from the audience. Boos followed by applause. And the reactions didn’t stop at the pageant. It went into overtime.
Worst answer
Perez then blasted her on his video blog calling it the “worst answer in pageant history.” He also made comments that he has since apologized for. Now he’s asked her out for coffee to “talk.”
The directors of the Miss California pageant condemned her answer on Monday morning.
“As co-executive director of Miss CA USA and one of the leaders of the Miss CA family, I am personally saddened and hurt that Miss CA USA 2009 believes marriage rights belong only to a man and a woman,” wrote Keith Lewis on Hilton’s blog. “Although I believe all religions should be able to ordain what unions they see fit, I do not believe our government should be able to discriminate against anyone. Religious beliefs have no place in politics in the Miss CA family.”
Sticking by it
Does she regret the answer? Not at all.
“I was raised in a way that you can never compromise your beliefs and your opinions for anything,” she told AccessHollywood.
Further, she informed the entertainment site that her sister is a gay rights activist in the Air Force. By the way, her sister was more sympathetic than Hilton.
“She was just in my hotel room and she said, ‘Sis, I’m not offended by anything that you said. We have two different opinions and I love you because of it. I love you because you stood up for what was right, and it’s not a matter of being gay or not gay, it’s a matter of you competing for Miss USA and getting a question and answering it to the best of your ability.”
On one area both Hilton and Prejean agree: her answer killed her chances of winning the competition.
“She lost it because of that question. She was definitely the front-runner before that,” Hilton told ABCNews.com
“It did cost me my crown,” she concurred. “I wouldn’t have had it any other way. I said what I feel. I stated an opinion that was true to myself and that’s all I can do.”
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Out official makes history by running campaign through Facebook
Nick Shalosky, 21, a member of the Charleston County District 20 Constituent School Board and the first out elected official in South Carolina, details how he used social network Facebook to run his winning, write-in campaign. “Facebook provided me with an avenue to quickly organize after jumping into the race with only two weeks before Election Day,” he writes. “Such rapid mobilization might not have been possible only two years ago. But, with a Facebook page and a knowledge of online organizing, I secured my winning margin without spending a penny.” The Bilerico Project
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LGBT Rights: The Civil-Rights Struggle of Generation Y
I’ve always felt connected to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. As a child, my family shared with me their stories of growing up in rural South Carolina during a time when being spat at or being called the N-word was more than just a common occurrence–it was applauded. And I, as a 23-year-old Black man, have had my own run-ins with racists and bigots, albeit not as severely as it was for my parents.
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SC principal ‘rethinks’ resignation over gay club
COLUMBIA, S.C. — School officials say the South Carolina high school principal who said he would resign because of a gay club at the school has changed his mind.
Irmo High School principal Eddie Walker had said he would retire in May because his values conflicted with a proposed Gay-Straight Alliance.
Lexington-Richland District 5 spokesman Buddy Price told The State newspaper Thursday that interim superintendent Herbert Berg got a letter from Walker that said he wanted to stay. Price says Walker’s contract will be up for renewal in the spring.
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SC principal rethinks resignation over gay club
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