Republican Gay Sex Scandals All The Rage Again

Looks like I wrote and published this post a couple of weeks too early. Time to add another closeted gay Republican getting arrested, and this one a full-blown U.S. Senator:

Propositioning police officer in restroom.
Senator Larry Craig of Idaho.
1 month ago





Jeebus. The Republican party platform of strong moral character is just becoming a self-parody, isn't it? Throw in Mr. Alberto "Torture-Is-Fine" Gonzalez' resignation today, and you've got yet another (the fourth this year, I believe) perfect storm of conservative scandal misery.

Heh: James Wolcott of Vanity Fair sums it up beautifully...

Republican lawmakers seem to be having a difficult time visiting the men's room these days without a Joe OrtonGay British playwright famous for black comedies of a decidedly macabre nature that always had gay plots and characters. play breaking out.

UPDATE:

Oh so lovely: JC Christian over at Jesus' General discovers on the "Idaho Values Alliance" website an article thanking the gentleman from Idaho for a recent pro-life vote, which is immediately followed by an article explaining how the scary, godless, evil gay people meet in airport restrooms for gay sex.

To quote Morpheus: "Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony."

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UPDATE 2:

About 10 months ago, blogger Mike Rogers penned an article about how he interviewed 3 different men (in 3 different states) who could confirm that Senator Craig liked to troll public restrooms for gay sex. Reaction from the right side of the aisle could be summed up as, "I'm outraged that this kind of mudslinging is going on! And besides... if Senator Craig is gay, that kind of thing doesn't bother an open-minded individual like myself." Of course, today the indignation, disgust, and calls for the resignation of Senator Craig are coming in fast and furious over on the right. Glenn Greenwald has the details.

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UPDATE 3:

I guess it's fair to make this observation: While I personally have no doubt in my mind what the Senator was up to — and what he would have done had he been responded to in kind — it is indisputable that he was arrested for tapping his foot and waving his hands. (I suppose, upon thinking, that staring at a distance through the crack in a bathroom stall door could be a criminal offence, but I'm not too sure.) Anyway, there is one point the senator made which I agree with: He was an idiot for having pled guilty to the charges against him. Other than that, I'm happy he was busted, happy he was outed, and happy he was made to look like a perverted old fool.