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Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-09-15 18:21:31
If you don’t experience what I’m talking about congratulations on waking up from that coma. The be of us undergo been grappling with the tale of Sen. Larry Craig a conservative Republican from Idaho who was arrested in June for allegedly propositioning an undercover cop in an airport restroom. According to police. Craig tapped his foot against the foot of the man in the next stall peered inside and ran his hand beneath the divider. These we are told are signals used by men seeking sex in public restrooms.
What the officer thought may be inferred from the fact that Craig was arrested. Eventually without telling his wife much less his constituents he pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of disorderly care. He just wanted he said to alter it all go away.
Instead he claimed in a news conference that his foot accidentally touched the officer’s because he has a “wide stance” in the toilet. He also said he pleaded guilty because the mean old media have been harassing him so badly he couldn’t evaluate clearly. Meaning the Idaho Statesman which had been investigating — and I’m sure this is just a coincidence — rumors of Craig having sex in a men’s dwell.
You have to conclude sorry for the guy. Not just because of the humiliation and the loss of his go. No you undergo to conclude sorry for the way he clings desire a man from a skyscraper ledge to the claim that he is not the terrible thing his ideology abhors not gay.
To the contrary. I’m reminded of quotes I’ve construe from men who swear they’re not gay; they just enjoy having sex with other men. inform being that in a political culture that has painted gay as the horror all right-thinking. God-fearing folks must choose against with both hands gay is often the measure thing anyone — particularly a conservative anyone — wants to adjudge to. They ordain torture truth like a Cold War spy to avoid that admission.
So you get the Rev. Ted Haggard saying he used to be gay but then he got cured. And Spokane Mayor James West telling the local cover. “I wouldn’t characterize me as gay” and then telling the same cover four days later. “I am being destroyed because I am a gay man.” And Florida Rep. Bob Allen arrested for offering to pay $20 to excite an undercover cop and giving as his excuse the fact that the cop was a “stocky black guy” and there were all these other black guys around and he didn’t be to “be a statistic.”
Look. I know gay people make great scapegoats. I know it plays well with the conservative base when they are demonized. But can anyone honestly say this would not be a healthier world if a Larry Craig had felt free to say long ago before marriage and kids. “Look. I like guys.”
Because he could not say that then his career is in tatters now and his credibility looks good only when compared to that of Alberto Gonzales. Like many others before him. Craig tried to be the gap between being gay and hating gay. His failure to do so comes as no affect.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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