Prove You're Not Gay Tim

The right wing loves to make point after point where if you cannot prove an assertion is wrong then the assertion must be true.

Well more than one can play at that game, and it appears that a number of folks are picking up on the tactic to dish out as good as we've been getting for the past five years.

The target: Tim Eyman.

The assertion: Tim Eyman is gay.

The underlying message: Prove to us he isn't.

The debate is already on at blatherwatch, HorsesAss.org and Hominid Views, and surely to be picked up by others.

As Goldy indicates on the first Podcasting Liberally podcast last week, the fact that one would even take offense or feel undermined by such an assertion is exactly why protections for gays and lesbians are necessary in our society. The fact is I couldn't give a rats (or horses) ass if Tim Eyman is gay. However, the problem is that to many, especially those that he expects will sign his petitions to get his bigoted anti-gay measures on the November ballot, and those he hopes will vote for them at that time, Tim Eyman being gay is a big deal.

So this is a matter Tim Eyman can clear up for us once and for all. Prove to us you're not gay Tim - that's all you need to do - otherwise if you don't then we'll all know you are.

Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course.