They are not gay, they never have been gay

And they don't wear diapers to get off...



Look who is moralizing from Capitol Hill:

Two United States Senators implicated in extramarital sexual activity have named themselves as co-sponsors of S. J. RES. 43, dubbed the Marriage Protection Amendment. If ratified, the bill would amend the United States Constitution to state that marriage “shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman.” Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID), who was arrested June 11, 2007 on charges of lewd conduct in a Minneapolis airport terminal, is co-sponsoring the amendment along with Sen. David Vitter (R-LA).

Diaper Dave!



And Stallin' Craig!



THIS should finally fix the Family Values Party!

But you've been a nasty naughty boy, Lavatory Larry...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lawyers for Sen. Larry Craig asked the Senate ethics committee Wednesday to reject a complaint based on the Idaho Republican's guilty plea in a police undercover operation in an airport men's room, saying the events were "wholly unrelated" to official duties.

"Assertion of jurisdiction over this matter by the committee would be literally unprecedented and would create deleterious consequences for the Senate as a whole," the lawyers wrote.

The letter was hand-delivered to the ethics committee hours after Craig served notice that he was reconsidering his weekend pledge to resign his seat.

Wasn't Clinton's dalliance with Monica "wholly unrelated" to official duties, too?

Update: JJ of Unrepentant Old Hippie has the timeline and an hilarious video.

More updatiness: Sorghum Crow of Sorghum Crow's General Store has Lavatory Larry's customized trailer!

Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Ben Stein's monotone voice drives me bonkers, but his claiming Larry Craig was entrapped is hilarious.

PZ Myers of Pharyngula:

He's defending Larry Craig. It's promisingly incoherent, and here are his arguments, more or less in the order babbled.

Apparently the police should be looking for al-Qaeda, not misbehavior in public bathrooms.

Rank hypocrisy

In the 'I've got mine, fuck you, poor people' attitude of the Republicans who then turn and demand pet projects be paid for by taxpayers' dollars.

Mark Schmitt for the Guardian:

This, not Larry Craig's awkwardly closeted sexuality, is the hypocrisy that matters. This hypocrisy consists not in a failure to reconcile public and private life, but in two public positions that are in absolute contradiction to one another: The belief that people must make it on their own, with no "whining" and no help from government, coexisting with a staggering, slavish dependence on government - and the federal government, and thus taxpayers of the rest of America, in particular.

In a foreshadowing of Risch's comment about the New Orleans victims, the author Marc Reisner, whose 1986 book Cadillac Desert is the finest account of these Western politics, quotes one of the Teton dam's earlier opponents about the culture of this part of Idaho: they "get burned up when they hear about someone buying a bottle of mouthwash with food stamps. But they love big water projects. They only object to nickle-and-dime welfare. They love it in great big gobs."

This is the culture in which American conservatism - from Barry Goldwater's Arizona to Ronald Reagan's southern California, to George Bush's Texas, where great wealth was made possible because the government subsidized money losing oil companies - was bred. It is a culture of self-delusion and hypocrisy that excuses great cruelty. And it's far more dangerous than a poor old man in airport lavatory.

The difference between being gay

And being homosexual.

Mustang Bobby of Bark Bark Woof Woof explains it brilliantly:

Being gay means that you are aware of your attraction to people of your same sex but it isn't the be-all and end-all of who you are. It means you have overcome the stigma that certain parts of our society -- most notably the religious fundamentalists -- have placed on this facet of your life. It means that you're able to have a mature and loving relationship with people of whatever gender without focusing on the sexual aspects. Most well-adjusted people of whatever sexual orientation are capable of having friends without sleeping with them, and the fact that some people are obsessed with sex shouldn't define everyone else.

The tough part about being gay is that it's liberating. Rather than go along with the program that has been defined by certain religious creeds and Madison Avenue that being straight is the only way to be, gays and lesbians have to make their own way through society's maze of accepted behavior and re-define the American dream in their own way. Some find that a daunting task while others embrace the challenge and use it to lead happy, productive lives with healthy relationships with their friends, their families, and, if they're fortunate, someone to share their home and heart.

Unfortunately there are those who, for whatever reason, cannot accept that they're not a part of the mainstream. Whatever it is that causes them to hide their true self, be it religion, society, family, or political ambition, they work very hard to supress their natural instinct, often with tragic consequences. It forces them to focus on that part of their programming that cannot be repressed: their sexual desires. No matter how hard they try, they can't get beyond that, and therefore it becomes the driving force in their lives. That's incredibly sad, because there is so much more to life than who you sleep with.

Repression and Republicanism seem to go hand in hand which would explain why Senator Larry Craig may say he is not gay. He's a homosexual. And in his mind (and using his own words) that makes him a bad boy, a naughty boy, a nasty boy.

How sad.

And how Republican.

Speaking of self-loathing deeply closeted gay Republicans

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