Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Republican Family Values

So, yet another self-hating gay Republican Senator was nailed with his hand in the cookie jar the other day. Larry Craig, the junior Senator from Idaho was arrested playing footsie with an undercover police office in a bathroom stall in the Minneapolis St. Paul airport back in June. He pled guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct on Monday. The CNN story can be found here.

The disgusting part of the story isn’t what Craig was doing in the bathroom stall. Hell, the Patriot doesn’t care who or even what Republican Senators decide to have sexual relations with on their own time. And maybe the diversion of a sexual encounter in an airport bathroom helped the man reduce some tension caused by waiting in a 2 hour line to get through security. Hell, flying sucks these days and everybody knows it. No, the truly disturbing part of this story is that Craig was one of the most ardent senators when it came to pushing so-called “family-values” issues while all the while he’s been trolling airport men’s rooms for blow jobs. Craig is a morality crypto fascist; a conservative who believes that the government should stay out of the financial markets but install a camera in your bedroom. Craig's voting record has earned him top ratings from social conservative groups such as the American Family Association, Concerned Women for America and the Family Research Council. He has also supported a federal constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. In 1996, Craig also voted in favor of the Defense of Marriage Act, which denies federal recognition to same-sex marriages and prevents states from being forced to recognize the marriages of gay and lesbian couples legally performed in other states. Talk about self-hating!

The other chuckle to come out of this story is that Craig now regrets his guilty plea and claims he was railroaded into it because he didn’t have the advice of a lawyer. How a Republican Senator can say that kind of thing with a straight face is beyond me. The tough-on-crime Republican party has tried to do away with the right to counsel for years from their assault on Miranda to their gutting of the Constitution. How quick the little rats are to run behind the tattered document when it’s their own sorry ass in the sling.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

According to NYTimes, Craig "publicly rejected accusations by a gay rights activist last year that he had engaged in homosexual conduct." So it isn't the first time the topic of his sexuality has come up. Hopefully those that have slept with him will come forward. I mean, as Barney Frank has said, everyone has the right to privacy but if they use their position of power to deny LGBT folks basic human rights and equal protection under the law, they have essentially forfeited that right.

Anonymous said...

Maybe Craig suffers from Wittmaack-Ekbom's syndrome, didya think of that? I guess in this day and age Toe Jam is preferable to Toe Tapping.

Anonymous said...

One question for you, Patriot. By any chance, do you have Sen. Craig's number?

Mark said...

Nah, he's not my type.

Anonymous said...

"his own ass in a sling" hee hee heh priceless