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Eva Young is President of Log Cabin Republicans of Minnesota and lives in Minneapolis with her cat, Kiddleleewink. You can also read her other blog here.
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September 15, 2004

It seems that my post about the Outing Campaign has been the most popular one. It has gotten 6 comments so far.

Michael Demmons of Discount Blogger fame commented:

Also worthy to note that GayPatriot hides behind an anonymous pseudonym, and therefore, believes he is not accountable for what he says (like, for example, publishing Mike Rogers' phone number and private email.) Obviously, his user information could be obtained via court order if harm came to Mike Rogers.

I agree with Gay{Patriot's campaign to "Stop the Outing. Stop the Invasion of Privacy" but by doing what he did, he is, effectively, engaging in something similar.

For example, it wouldn't be hard to get an address from a phone number. Outing puts peoples' lives in danger. So does what GP did.

I've said Rogers is a worm. But to act like one to get back at him kind of defeats your purpose - unless that's to cause harm to someone.

I stopped over at Gay Patriot's blog, and verified that he had posted Michael Rogers address and phone number. I don't agree with what Mike Rogers is doing with the outing, but I agree with Demmons that Gay Patriot - under the cover of annonymity - is avoiding accountability for his words.

After calling in to "homophobic, anti-choice" Bob Enyart's radio show, Bob listed my phone number on his link to the show. One of Bob's fans posted the number of the bobenyartlive yahoogroup (I was a member at the time), and I got a threatening phone call from one of the group members telling me to leave the group or "I'm comin afta ya". I didn't take the call seriously because it was from out of state. So what I did was post to the group about the call - along with the information about who called (the person identified themselves on my answering machine). I also called Bob Enyart and talked to one of his staff people to take the number down. So he did.

On a later show, Bob joked about how he was going to place an ad in the Rocky Mountain News saying "Lesbian looking for man" with my phone number on it. Pretty pathetic. I don't think he placed that ad.