Reply #21: Progress for whom?

[Maven]

Like I said before, having behavior like Craig's exposed is only likely to reinforce stereotypes for those who harbor them, not prompt them to question said stereotypes.

"I think a Republican or two who hates GLBTs has been given some reasons to re-evaluate the impact of forcing someone to stay in the closet, and see that it hurts more than one person at a time."

I'd like to think so, but that's simply not likely. In order for these people to evaluate the impact of the closet, homophobia, etc., they'd first have to acknowledge that gay people don't deserve to be hated for being gay. That isn't likely to happen in a scandal where a Senator has been disgraced in circumstances connected to his homosexuality. Of course, some good could be made of this situation--if progressive leaders, for instance, made just the sort of statement you did in that excerpt I quoted. :)