Senator Larry Craig (center) in "Brokeback Mountain"
Well here's a fine to-do for all those wingnuts in Cloud-Cuckoo-Land!
It's time for the Republican Party to 'ex-Foley-ate' itself again as yet another gay-hating, homophobic, social conservative is caught with his pants down - and literally in the closet.
Senator Larry Craig has not only been a vociferous opponent of the gay movement (except apparently his own gay movements) but it turns out to that he is yet another steaming hypocrite who has pandered to the vast gay-loathing base of the Republican Party.
Only like so many Republicans who have come before him (insert your own joke here) - he is revealed by his recent actions and guilty plea to be a self-loathing gay.
But what is priceless is the excuse he offered to the policeman who arrested him.
Trying to explain why he was playing footsie with the man in the next cubicle in the airport toilet - he came up with this all-time classic. So fallacious that it sounds as if it came out directly of George Bush's mouth.
"I have a wide stance"
Nope - I'm not making it up!
So I thought I should look and see what Senator Larry Craig's "wide stance" is on the topic of that most cynically named of all Karl Rove's favorite wedge issues: "Family Values"
(As all thinking people know - the term 'Family Values' is a political branding as Orwellian and meaningless as 'Moral Majority' and 'compassionate conservative'. "We favor this looney position - therefore everyone who doesn't agree with us on this topic is against the first word in the topic name. i.e. im-moral, un-compassionate, anti-family etc. etc.")
Anyway - it's one of the big planks that the wingnuts think/hope might save them next year - so they cling on to it like a drowning GOP Senator clutching at stances.
Here from his official website is Larry's 'missionary' position.
(Well - it's from a pompous screed titled: "My Philosophy, Mission, and Goals" - so it's virtually 'missionary'!)
Goal Three:
Defend and strengthen the traditional values of the American family.
Yup - playing footsie with a cute guy in the bathroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport should certainly strengthen your American Family.
It will be fun to see how the blogging morons of the Immoral Minority try to spin this one!
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Like so many Repigs, Larry feeds at the trough,(so to speak.)
He supports good old fashioned family values, such as apple pie, baseball, and cruising for hot cock in airport bathrooms!
Once again, I'm left wondering, "What was he thinking?" And in what twin universe could this be moral behavior? And, how must his wife and children be feeling? And what kind of internalized self loathing and cultural homophobia drives someone in his position to take this kind of risk rather than seeking a mature, ethical sexual relationship with someone of the same sex?
And no surprise, when I looked up his voting record at HRC this morning, Senator Craig has voted for anti-gay measures, most recently in 2006 for the Federal Marriage Amendment. Maybe we can count on him now for YES votes on ENDA and Hate Crimes Legislation. He did resign yesterday as chairman of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign in Idaho.
In a world where sexual difference was affirmed, maybe these incidents wouldn't happen.
Rev. Debra Haffner
http://debrahaffner.blogspot.com
The republican machine is alive and well in my one party state of Idaho. Mr. Craig just keeps getting re-elected. He and his cronies "family values" are a legacy of poverty, no child health care, appalling mental health care, poor education, prisons - and those are just the issues I know about. Idaho is a "model state" in the art of republican governance.
Idaho is a one party state. The republican machine is alive and well here. Craig gives impetus to the term "family values"; poverty, economic terrorism, lack of child health care, appalling mental health care, prisons, are just some of his and his cronies gifts to our state. Yet, he keeps getting elected - just keeps on truckin.
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and keeps on cruisin' apparently.
I supoose it would be too much to hope that the good (and apparently over-trusting) people of Idaho will have the scales fall from their eyes after this and realize that they have been "gamed" over and over by these GOP "Family Values" hucksters...
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It's not just Senator Wide Stance of Idaho...anybody else notice Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah in a kimono priming for his close-up? Queens, the Senate is Full of Them!
My whole life, everyone has called me hyperactive. I'm always shaking my feet. Now, I find out it's a gay pickup sign. I may have been breaking hearts in restrooms for years! Who knew?
Men SECURE in their sexuality (which ever it is) don't worry about what other people do sexually. It's only the repressed self-loathing, obsessive compulsive folks who CONSTANTLY stick their noses in what others are doing.
These hypocrites have to lurk around men's rooms because they're trolls.
Being a 'mo myself, I know I wouldn't touch any of them.
That's why they're so antigay. They're pissed off because they couldn't get a date.
After falling for that 'family values' crap for years (from 2000 and back), I've come to believe that the highest 'value' is in loving one another and not being judgeMENTAL. As a Christian, I believe that was Jesus' message in a nutshell. Maybe if more Christians saw through that simple prism and practiced that, the faith wouldn't look bad to so many people.
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Posted August 27, 2007 | 11:49 PM (EST)