Conservative group leader calls on GOP leader to admit he's gay

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Head Of Conservative Group Demands GOP Senator Admit He's Gay
, April 20, 2010 * 4:45:44 PM (EST)

William Gheen, head of the conservative, anti-"amnesty," anti-illegal immigration group Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), spoke at a Greenville, S.C. Tea Party rally this weekend and called for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to "come out of that log cabin closet."

According to Gheen, being gay is "a secret that Lindsey Graham has."

Gheen told the crowd: "I hope this secret isn't being used as leverage over Senator Graham, so today I think Senator Graham, you need to come forward and tell people about your alternative lifestyle and your homosexuality."

"Barney Frank is more honest and brave than you," Gheen continued, referring to the openly-gay Massachusetts congressman.

ALIPAC has posted the video titled "US Senator Graham is Gay" on YouTube, where various news outlets have covered it.

At one point, the video contained the tags "queer" and "fag," which Gheen told HuffPost were the result of a hacked YouTube account. When Gheen was informed of the keywords, he replaced them with less incendiary language.

The group defended itself Monday, and in fact doubled down on calls for Lindsay Graham to admit his homosexuality.

In a statement, ALIPAC alleged that a "brief clip of Gheen's speech, which is out of proper context, has already gone viral on YouTube and been reported by Keith Olberman on MSNBC without proper permissions or attributions."

"US Senator Lindsey Graham is gay and while many people in South Carolina and Washington DC know that, the general public and Graham's constituents do not," Gheen said in the statement. Though Gheen claimed, both in the statement and at the Tea Party rally, that he does "not care about Graham's private life," he again said that Graham must declare his supposed homsexuality "so the public can rest assured he is not being manipulated with his secret."

"I need to figure out why you're trying to sell out your own countrymen and I need to make sure you being gay isn't it," Gheen said over the weekend.

Anonymous rumors of Sen. Graham's supposed homosexuality have swirled around Washington before. In the run-up to Justice Sotomayor's confirmation hearing, Graham asked Sotomayor to explain uncredited comments about her past behavior. A blogger reactd by asking Graham to respond to anonymous speculation that he was gay.

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and?

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why aren't you saying things like racist, ged, kkk....this rumor is like where obama was born rumor

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I had no idea Senato Lindsey Graham was gay. But this tea party leader is calling him out. I could care less. If you don't think that is hilarious take the stick out your as and reread.

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it is the same kind of rumor about where obama was born, yet you happily spread it around and do not insult the people making the claim

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Your retarded. This is con on con. Not kkk on black.

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Your retarded. This is con on con. Not kkk on black.

lol...you never fail to disappoint with your bigotted rantings

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it is the same kind of rumor about where obama was born, yet you happily spread it around and do not insult the people making the claim

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Apropos of nothing, Orly Taitz lost yet another round in her determination to show that Obama isn't a citizen.

April 16, 2010
Judge Dismisses Suit by Birther Activist Orly Taitz

A federal judge has dismissed a Washington lawsuit by “birther” activist Orly Taitz challenging President Barack Obama’s citizenship.
Taitz, a dentist and lawyer from California known for her occasional TV news appearances, filed a “quo warranto” complaint challenging Obama’s status as a natural born citizen and demanding that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton provide a copy of the president’s birth certificate.

The case landed with Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, who, suffice it to say, was having none of it.

“This is one of several such suits filed by Ms. Taitz in her quixotic attempt to prove that President Obama is not a natural born citizen as required by [the] Constitution,” Lamberth wrote in a decision published on April 14. “This Court is not willing to go tilting at windmills with her.”

Lamberth wrote that only the U.S. attorney general or a U.S. attorney’s office can ask a court to file a writ of quo warranto, which according to Black’s Law Dictionary is a “common-law writ used to inquire the authority by which a public office is held.”

Lamberth dismissed a slew of other counts in which Taitz alleged violations of the False Claims Act, the Freedom of Information Act, and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. He also rejected her argument that the recently passed health care reform act was unconstitutional because, having failed to prove he was a natural born citizen, Obama did not have the authority to sign the bill into law. Lamberth pointed out that at the time she amended her complaint to include that claim, Obama had not actually signed the bill.

http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/20...rly-taitz.html

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so...it doesn't prove or disprove where obama was born....just like nothing out there proves or disproves he is gay, yet you guys have no problem spreading this rumor around and don't insult those who do....why is that? i guarantee if the rumor was that obama is gay, sitnspintop would be all out in force with his, kkk....racist....comments and i have no doubt you too would see racism in it

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Spurt your gay but that doesn't bother me.

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William Gheen, head of the conservative, anti-"amnesty," anti-illegal immigration group Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), spoke at a Greenville, S.C. Tea Party rally this weekend and called for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to "come out of that log cabin closet."

According to Gheen, being gay is "a secret that Lindsey Graham has."

God Christ, is this a surprise to anyone who has even the most rudimentary functioning gay-dar?

The two biggest closeted Republican toe-tappers in congress are Lyndsey Graham and Representative David Drier. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.



Anyway, what were Senator Graham’s parents thinking? “Lindsey”???!!! A name like that is like an automatic ban, just on principle, from being picked to play football, basketball, or any other testosterone building activities. The ostracized future senator probably ended up having to play with dolls.

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