Pete is gay, and I respect him for coming out of the gay closet.- Extremely embarrassing for him and the people who raised him. However, we can’t, as a country, offer people leadership positions based on their sexual preferences.
Damn, Muni.
Your world must be the shallowest, narrowest place on Planet Earth, next to perhaps The Taliban.
Da Mayor's vitae:
Harvard grad.
Oxford (Rhodes Scholar) grad.
Lieutenant, US Navy Intelligence officer, deployed to a war zone in Afghanistan.
Mayor of my Grandpa's midwestern city.
U.S. Sec of Transportation
If someone in my family accomplished even half this much by the age of 40, you'd best believe that I'd be extremely proud to mention his name at any opportunity.
On the other hand, if someone in my family expressed the type of truncated cognitive traits expressed in your post, I'd do my level best to make certain that our names were never connected.