Noted gay advice columnist Dan Savage weighs in this week on the rather strange case of 18-year-old Tyler Whitney, a self-professed up-and-coming conservative activist who currently works as a webmaster for GOP antigay presidential candidate, Tom Tancredo. Whitney also reportedly leads an antigay political group on his college campus and has carried a “Go Back in the Closet!” sign at an antigay protest.

Recently, Between the Lines, a gay newspaper in Michigan (who knew they had one?), published a story that noted Whitney has told some friends that he is gay, which was then picked up by loads of national gay bloggers, including Mike Rogers, the gay editor of BlogActive, a blog that’s outed at least two dozen high-ranking political figures since 2004.

Bay Buchanan, an adviser to Tancredo, has said that Whitney’s “sexual preference is a personal matter” and that it should have “nothing to do with the campaign.”

But Savage disagrees:

“Sorry, Bay, but gay-bashing thugs—people like you, your horrible brother Pat, your vile candidate—can’t have it both ways. If Whitney’s sexual preference is a personal matter, then so is mine. If Whitney’s sexual preference shouldn’t have anything to do with the campaign, then neither should mine—nor should the sexual preference of any other American. But so long as the GOP attacks gay Americans, Whitney’s sexuality—and his hypocrisy—has everything to do with the campaign.”

Hmmmmm. Hypocrisy among politicos. Now where have we heard about that before?

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