One of the left’s favorite things to do is “out” gay republican politicians. I happen to share their disdain for republicans who crusade against gay rights and turn out to be gay themselves. That kind of hypocrisy really is just too much.

However, it’s when the left tries to “out” republicans just because they’re republicans through nefarious whisper campaigns and gossip that bug me.

A republican senator or congressman who’s above the age of 40 and still single must be gay — according to the left.

Oddly, it’s the same leftists who howl about gays being treated equally that relish outing gay republicans as if being gay were something bad.

A favorite target of lefty homophobes is Sen. Lindsey Graham. Liberals often talk about Graham being gay as if it’s an established fact that everyone already knows.

Proud lesbian lefty and former democratic congressional candidate Linda Ketner is the latest one to “out” allegedly gay republicans.

In an interview with far left blog Firedoglake, Ketner makes the claim that three South Carolina GOP politicians are gay.

She names Sen. Lindsey Graham, Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, and S.C. Senate President Glenn McConnell.

Ketner doesn’t actually know if the three are gay, but certainly thinks so based on what she’s heard.

Here’s the real point that liberals and gay activists are missing. The vast majority of republicans don’t really give a damn if someone is gay.

Folks who support Lindsey Graham are not going to scream in horror if they discover he’s gay and not vote for him anymore. As much as the left would love for that to happen it’s not.

Liberals often make the mistake (on purpose usually) of tying the gay marriage issue to a hatred of gays.

Just because a person thinks the word “marriage” should remain legally defined as being between a man and a woman doesn’t show a hatred of gays.

In California, gay couples get ALL the same rights as married couples do, but it’s just not called “marriage.”

So demonizing Carrie Prejean, staging dramatic protests, and invoking Martin Luther King Jr. is about nothing more than semantics.

Gays want that damn marriage word and nothing short of it. To hell with all the legal rights they just want that damn word!

But, that’s another issue — back to outing gay republicans.

I happen to like Lindsey Graham. Many conservatives think he’s too much of a RINO (Republican In Name Only), but nevertheless he’s a good guy.

His sexual orientation is totally irrelevant. Whether or not he likes dudes has no impact whatsoever on his performance as a U.S. Senator.

Again, it’s the same people who want special hate crime laws to protect gays and pretend to be champions of gay rights, who also try and publically humiliate other allegedly gay people with whom they disagree.

This of course is the usual rank hypocrisy you get from the left — so I’m not really surprised.

-Chris Jones