Cross-posted from DemConWatch
On May 30th, FireDogLake published an interview with Linda Ketner who, last year, came within 2% of ousting incumbent Republican Henry Brown. In the interview Ketner said the following:
"We have more gay people serving in South Carolina than probably in anyplace in the United States; they're just not out of the closet. We have an awful lot of people in the closet-- Lindsey Graham, Glenn McConnell who's our Senate president pro tem, our Lt Governor
She apologized a few days later:
I let myself and others down in a recent off-the-record chat with a reporter. I obviously don’t have knowledge of the sexual orientation of any individuals mentioned. What I do have is respect and appreciation for their service to this state.
Watch Lt. Governor Andre Bauer on the Rachel Maddow Show starting at 3:25.
So take what you want from the Ketner interview. I and probably all of the readers here wouldn't think twice about him being gay. It's the people of the ever increasingly loony right wing whose heads will explode when they find out that Mark Sanford's little trip to Appalachia Argentina may give the great state of South Carolina its first gay Governor.