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Hypocrisy Has No Bounds


by: Todd Hill

Tue Aug 28, 2007 at 07:51 AM CDT


Republican Senator Larry Craig, an equal participant in election bashing of gays and lesbians, pleaded guilty to lewd conduct in a public restroom in an attempt to solicit sex from an undercover male police officer.

Craig, an early supporter of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, has stepped down from his prominent position with the campaign, and is rethinking any attempt to run for re-election in 2008.  Moreover, he is likely to be forced to resign his seat entirely by the Republican leadership in order to avoid a Mark Foley scandal all over again.

It is men like Senator Craig, Mark Foley, Ted Haggard, and all the other hypocritical hate mongers who consistently demonize men and women of the LGBT community as unequal and undeserving of balanced justice and protection under the law in order to get reelected, only to continue and be exposed as the liars that they truly are. 

All of you give the good men and women of the gay and lesbian community a bad name.  You stand behind your façade of conservatism and evangelical values and have the nerve to cast your judgment on the rest of America while you grapple internally with your own sexuality…shame on you!  Judgment shall now be cast upon you. 

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Idaho? No way. He da ho. (0.00 / 0)
The sad thing is Craig would win re-election. Idaho has been a traditionally GOP state since the dawn of time. One of my cousins was a US Senator there in the 50's. I think it may have to do with the people who migrated there from the east coast in the 1800s who were Republicans when being a Republican actually meant something, and they just never changed parties.

www.stonewalldemocratsofdentoncounty.org




Larry Craig's actions were misunderstood... (0.00 / 0)
Clearly the arresting officer's hearing was damaged by all those hours at the gun range.  Otherwise he would have heard Craig say (as his foot came over) "I like your shoes; where did you get them?" and (as he waved under the stall) "hey, I'm all outta tp over here; can you help a brotha out?"

BTW, if you haven't seen them, everyone reading this has some YouTube required viewing:

Larry Craig's 1982 preemptive just-because-I'm-not-married-and-I'm-concerned-that-an-underage-House-Page-may-have-implicated-me-in-a-drug-and-sex-scandal-doesn't-mean-I'm-gay statement:

http://youtube.com/w...
http://youtube.com/w...

Barney Frank trying to avoid saying Larry Craig is gay on Bill Maher:
http://youtube.com/w...


Hey, I'm a Senator (0.00 / 0)
Scuse me, I seem to have lost a piece of paper. Can I look around for it in your pants.
Wonder which stall at DFW Cornyn prefers.

It just keeps on, doesn't it? (5.00 / 1)
For a party with such as small tent, they've got a mighty big closet!

You know... (0.00 / 0)
At this point, I'm starting to wonder if the Republicans might not have more gay elected officials than the Democrats do.

My idea (0.00 / 0)
posted as My Own Privates, Idaho.

Christian Liberal is NOT an oxymoron.

Bound to be a Bible Bigot (0.00 / 0)
Christians who scapegoat the gay community to hide their sins are bound for Hell.  Texas has a boundless supply of these types of bigots.  Larry Craig's marriage is a christian sham.  If America had marriage equality, perhaps this situation could have been avoided.

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