Larry Craig, not that there's anything wrong with that
Larry Craig. Most of us didn't even know who he was last month. For the record, he's a Republican Senator from Idaho who votes fairly conservatively on most issues, supporting the Patriot Act and is against gay marriages. Most recently he has been in the news because he was caught "cruising" (also called "cottaging") a men's room at the Minneapolis, St. Paul airport. According to the police officer's report:
At 1216 hours, Craig tapped his right foot. I recognized this as a signal used by persons wishing to engage in lewd conduct. Craig tapped his toes several times and moves his foot closer to my foot.... The presence of others did not seem to deter Craig as he moved his right foot so that it touched the side of my left foot which was within my stall area. Craig then proceeded to swipe his hand under the stall divider several times
Craig pled guilty. After the story broke, the Republican leadership broke with him, most calling for his resignation. The Senator announced his intention to resign by the end of the month, but is apparently now equivocating a bit.
I don't like hypocrites and the list of holier-than-thou Congressmen who say one thing in front of the camera and do another in private marches on. Not just sex of course, but as Michael Moore so famously pointed out in Fahrenheit, almost none of the biggest war mongers on the Hill have sent their own kids to Iraq.
So I bet I wouldn't like Craig for his hypocrisy, but hey, that's not what he's getting beat up about. He's being beat up for being GAY. Yeah, cruising stalls in a public place is illegal (I think it is?), but that's not why Craig is being abandoned...it's because it looks like he plays for the other ball team. Craig is being lumped into the same gravy as wannabe pedophile Mark Foley (another Republican Congressman, this one from the state of lunacy--Florida.) Craig did not betray the trust of young people, he was looking for some action. So why is what he did (being gay) occupying the same niche as child stalkers like Foley? Could it be...American homophobia?
Nah.
Posted on September 05, 2007
