Larry Craig Redux
“Let me be clear. I am not gay; I never have been gay.” — Larry Craig
Okay, this is funny. Republicans were having the vapors last week over Larry Craig’s bathroom antics, but over the weekend, some right-wingers were pitching a fit about “entrapment”. Wow! It just now occurred to them that looking for consensual, unpaid sex between two adults shouldn’t really be criminal? Or even grounds for excommunication from the party? (Don’t get me wrong — I don’t think people should have sex in public bathrooms. Go somewhere private, fer cryin’ out loud! It’s a lot more fun, and a lot less stressful, that way.)
Anyway, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) joined the chorus of “Larry wuz framed” today, and the folks on MSNBC are now reporting that Craig may reconsider his statement that he would resign by the end of September. As is the Associated Press. And Rachel Maddow.
Hey, I was hoping Craig would give the Republican party the finger on Saturday, when he was forced to announce his impending resignation. He didn’t. Duh. But if he does make a comeback, it would be nice if he’d renounce his homophobia and stop using his own self-loathing as a motivation to deny equality to others. I’m just sayin’. Looks like this one’s not over.
September 4th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
Yeah, and I guess they’re counting on Democrats being reluctant to step forward and insist that Craig should be drummed out of Congress for wanting a blow job. (Or maybe he wanted to give a blow job. Is there a foot tap code? Something like Morse?)
And I suppose Idaho is so violently red that even if his constituency back home, the Idaho Family Values bunch, is completely disgusted with his failure to resign, they’ll never consider replacing him with anything other than another Republican. So that’s safe.
I agree, Kathy, it would be great if Craig suddenly became a champion for gay rights. But he won’t.
But to be honest, something about the story of his arrest reminded me of descriptions of the Salem witch trials. That cop saying, “He then proceeded to tap his foot on the floor in a manner I knew to be consistent with men seeking to engage in lewd acts” or whatever it was. It sounded like those nasty people accusing women of the evil eye or having a mole in the wrong place: “…and two days later, Goody Smith’s best milch cow did bloat and die.” I think they need to get that poor cop into some fresh air—he’s inhaled one urinal cake too many.
September 5th, 2007 at 11:04 am
He is not gay. He has never been gay. Nor have any preachers in Colorado ever been gay.