IS THE WORLD SICKER AND MEANER OR DO WE JUST HEAR IT ALL FASTER?

There is so much proof today that some politicians, and those who work for them, will lie and say anything to get themselves or their candidate elected. 

Ken Mehlman, former head of RNC, has come out as being gay. He is not the first to feed discrimination of gays, withhold equality by working towards it,  In the Huffington Post article by Amanda Terkel, She writes:  " He agreed to answer a reporter's questions, he said, because, now in private life, he wants to become an advocate for gay marriage and anticipated that questions would be asked about his participation in a late-September fundraiser for the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), the group that supported the legal challenge to California's ballot initiative against gay marriage, Proposition 8."

 To finally come to grips at age 43 with one's homosexuality defies all that has forever been known about human sexual development and gender identity.  Having seen so many epiphanies coincide with threats of being 'outed' I must confess to my own speculations on timing and change of direction of life goals and political aims.  The article ends with this:  "Mehlman headed the RNC when the Republican Party was pushing anti-gay initiatives and increasingly speaking out against marriage equality. Former RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie and Mehlman's longtime friend called Mehlman's coming-out "significant," but added that he remains opposed to gay marriage." 

Marc Ambinder, politics editor The Atlantic, writes:    "Mehlman arrived at this conclusion about his identity fairly recently, he said in an interview. He agreed to answer a reporter's questions, he said, because, now in private life, he wants to become an advocate for gay marriage and anticipated that questions would arise about his participation in a late-September fundraiser for the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), the group that supported the legal challenge to California's ballot initiative against gay marriage, Proposition 8."

Is this an example of how one's integrity and values are determined by the job and income it will bring to one?
It also makes me wonder about what the surviving partner of a gay relationship who was shut out of the hospital where his/her partner lay dying, who was subsequently shut out of all planning for burial, memorials, splitting joint assets or whatever other business Mehlman helped keep an insurmountable obstacle,