According to the right-wing political action committee Americans for Legal Immigration (ALIPAC), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) needs to "make his homosexual lifestyle public knowledge in the interest of political integrity and national security." Or, in the words of one blogger, Graham's "stealth gayness" might pose a danger to us all.
And it's not the first, second or even third time rumors about Graham's sexuality have surfaced. For the unmarried conservative senator who Jon Stewart once joked "looks like an old lesbian," the question has become increasingly thorny for him.
"I'm a tolerant person," ALIPAC leader William Gheen told a crowd in Greenville, South Carolina over the weekend. "I don't care about your private life, Lindsey, but as our U.S. Senator I need to figure out why you're trying to sell out your own countrymen and I need to be sure being gay isn't it."
The crowd of conservatives erupted into cheers.
"I'm-a take some heat about that one on Monday," the speaker said, after suggesting that Congressman Barney Frank, an openly gay Democrat from Massachusetts, was "more honest" than Graham.
Approached by blogger Mike Stark in October, 2009 after the senator had read off anonymous insults about Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her confirmation hearing, Graham was not in the mood to comment on the rumors.
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