Another Gay Anti-Gay U.S. Senator
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I thought this was worth a chuckle. There are SO many repressed self-hating gays in U.S. politics. But wait, their personal lives ought to be irrelevant to what they’re standing up for, right?
From The People’s Daily (gotta love that name!).
U.S. anti-gay marriage senator admits misconduct in homosexual scandal
07:49, August 29, 2007
U.S. Senator Larry E. Craig, a firm gay marriage opponent, was arrested in June at an airport’s men’s bathroom and has pleaded guilty to misconduct, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
Craig, 62, has been fined more than 500 U.S. dollars and placed on unsupervised probation for a year, according to the report.
A 10-day jail sentence was suspended, according to a copy of a court document in the case. A second charge, interference with privacy, was dismissed.
According to a police report, a plainclothes police officer investigating complaints of sexual activity in the bathroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport arrested the senator on June 11 after what the officer described as sexual advances made by Craig from an adjoining stall.
In the wake of the homosexual scandal, Craig also severed ties with the Republican presidential campaign of Mitt Romney.
The Idaho Republican is a father of three and voted against gay rights. In 2006, he moved to endorse an amendment to the Constitution to define marriage in the United States as a union between one man and one woman.
Craig, whose seat is up for election next year, is the second Republican senator in recent weeks to find his personal behavior under scrutiny.
Senator David Vitter was implicated in a separate case when his phone number turned up in the records of an escort service that the authorities have described as a prostitution ring.
Source: Xinhua
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Scowl
2:45 am | Aug 29, 2007Haha, hopefully this will get people thinking about any anti-gay politicians. Gonna have to wonder about the guys who are the loudest.
It’s kind of interesting how this kind of self-hate and “selling out” manifests itself, because in this case they are able to hide and deny what they actually are. Well, until thinking with the wrong head gets them caught with their pants down, literally.
AfroIndo
6:09 am | Aug 29, 2007How is that saying again…..”methinks he doth protest too much!”. I’m fed up with these freaking cowards. Saying that, I can totally empathise with him having to suppress such urgings. I mean, it’s a trip and a half to live up to the US society’s hypocritical expectations.
Dialectic
11:02 am | Aug 29, 2007It goes beyond cowardice! Hiding is one thing, and in U.S. society that’s totally understandable. Railing against your own rights is another (not to mention dirty-ass washroom propositioning). It stems from hardcore U.S. repression and absolutism, going right back to the Puritan founding days.
evil_FUX
2:13 am | Aug 31, 2007I don’t know about the rest of you but a local radio station here has been ripping on him since the story broke. Today they pointed out the absurdity in his claims of tryiing to hold his pants up while on the toilet as an explanation on how his foot got under the other guy’s stall. Then they had the obligatory UC cop talking about his experiences in busting poor guys like that senator.