As you probably know by now, if you’ve been trolling political blogs all day like the good little unproductive employee you are, Ed Schrock, a conservative Republican congressman from Hampton Roads, Va., quit his re-election efforts after a D.C. blogger, BlogActive, alleged that Schrock was gay. As DCeiver noted this morning: “Don’t look now, but Virginia’s having its own McGreevey moment!”

BlogActive, run by D.C. gay activist Mike Rogers, has been on a campaign for months now to out closeted gay politicians. Included in Rogers’ allegations about Schrock are audio tapes, purportedly of the congressman making calls to gay sex lines.

A Washington Blade article says of Rogers:

Rogers’ outing campaign has already highlighted congressional staffers that he claims support anti-gay members of Congress.
He has also purported to out several members of Congress, including Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski, who has a largely positive gay rights record.

Days after Rogers posted an item about Mikulski, she announced her opposition to the Federal Marriage Amendment, something she had declined to do earlier.

At times, Rogers has gone beyond merely highlighting information about staffers and members with anti-gay records he says are gay, calling their offices and personal telephone numbers repeatedly, demanding that they respond to his charges of hypocrisy.

A post on BlogActive of Rogers’ account of the story follows: