So I am not sure there is evidence that this man was outed by Democrats. The fact is outing someone is wrong Richard, but it was his former lover who outed him, not a Democrat. His lover of course is and was an illegal immigrant, and what is interesting is how this is a great example of what happens to immigrants who are not in this country legally. People like the Sheriff and business owners who hire illegal immigrants hold them hostage to their status as an illegal.

We know for a fact businesses do this through threats, just like the Sheriff. Thing is, since he knew his lover was illegal, he was also breaking the law. The Sheriff harbored an illegal immigrant, and used it against his lover so that no one would know that not only is he gay, (no real Democrat cares about that fact) but that he harbored an illegal immigrant, clearly a violation of federal and state law.

But that brings us to the plight of illegal immigrants and how they are most often held hostage to these sorts of facts. I think there was the case in Alabama at a chicken processing facility, immigrants there were held hostage because of their illegal status, forced to work for below minimum wage, with no protections from labor law because of their fear of getting caught in the country. It's terrible and they are treated as slaves. There is no difference between what the Sheriff did and what the Chicken processing plant did to those illegal immigrant employees. The Sheriff should be fired for breaking the law and he should be charged with extortion. He clearly isn't the kind of guy who should be in law enforcement at all. I can't imagine ever standing up for a person who flagrantly breaks the law he is supposed to uphold.

One time when I was heading back from San Jose to Seattle on Amtrak, I was sitting in the building waiting for a train that was 2 hours late. A young woman from Guatemala was there waiting for her boss to come and pick her up.

My Spanish isn't fluent anymore, but I still have a handle on the language, so she and I had a conversation, she spoke no English. She was in the country illegally, she worked for a Saudi, he and his family they were quite abusive. I gave her some information about help in San Jose for people like her, so she could get out of that situation, but she was too afraid, afraid of ICE. She didn't want to be deported, her children were in Guatemala with her mother and husband, and she was their sole support. So the abuse I fear continued. 

This man, this Sheriff is no different than those people, he took advantage of his ex-lovers illegal status, in order to gain something for himself. I don't think anyone cares that he is gay, I'd feel the same way if he'd done this to his ex-girlfriend, he simply shouldn't be a cop, since he is oh-so-willing to break any law to give himself an advantage.  With this kind of attitude however, he will make an excellent politician, so he has that going for him.