How-ever if you are a Democrat, you get away with murder!
Posted on 08/30/2007 4:07:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
Listening to Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig proclaim in near-thundering terms that he is not gay and never has been gay, I couldn't help but recall hearing Bill Clinton swear he "did not have sex with that woman."
All Craig lacked to enforce the comparison was a finger wiggling at the camera. In his case, there was also no trace of bodily fluids on anyone's dress to prove his guilt, but then there was that guilty plea admitting that he had engaged in disorderly conduct in a men's room at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, thereby avoiding admitting that he originally had been charged with soliciting a homosexual encounter with an undercover police officer.
Craig now says he pled guilty simply to get the matter out of the way, but surely as a lawmaker he had to know that he could easily have pleaded nolo contendere (no contest) without owning up to having been a bad boy and having that damning guilty plea on the record.
The media has jumped on this story as if the senator were Paris Hilton in drag. Aside from the ribald comments it has provoked, such as Jay Leno's remark to Sen. John McCain -- who had said that his colleagues don't socialize with one another -- that his lonely fellow senators could always find companionship in airport men's rooms.
When they involve politics, scandals such as this one are certain to find partisanship rearing its head, and the Craig affair is no exception. Because Larry Craig is a staunch conservative from a staunchly conservative state, Democrats and their leftist allies are dancing in the streets over his embarrassment, busily reminding every sympathetic reporter who will listen to them that the Idaho Senator not only espouses family values, but has been a staunch foe of gay marriage.
Ergo, he's not only a closet men's room lothario, but a hypocrite as well. It's a case of "don't do as I do, do as I say."
As tempting a target as Craig may be, however, it's interesting how gingerly the overwhelmingly pro-gay media have approached the subject of his alleged homosexuality.
Except for the more-militant gay activists, at least one of which has charged in unprintable language that Craig isn't really gay, he just likes to have gay sex, most of the media have avoided any hint that in reporting on the scandal they find Craig's suspected homosexuality objectionable.
In other words, if he really is gay, that fact itself is off limits. As Jerry Seinfeld used to say after mentioning homosexuality with something less than approval, "Not that there's anything wrong with that."
In the media's eyes, however, there is a lot wrong with a closet gay criticizing gay marriage or promoting family values which they see as code for condemning homosexuality and gays.
Democrats and the media define Craig as a hypocrite. By their twisted logic, therefore, anybody who espouses traditional Judeo/Christian values must also be a hypocrite.
As a result, the Craig affair is providing Democrats with an opportunity to attack conservative proponents of traditional family values and conservative foes of gay marriage as a bunch of hypocrites, thereby hoping to deprive the GOP of a pair of politically potent issues.
Democrats want the public to believe that Craig is a hypocrite who speaks one way and acts in another – appearing to be a practicing heterosexual when he is in reality a closet gay – not, they'll hasten to say, that there's anything wrong with that.
If you have no standards, you can never be a "hypocrite". That's why liberals love to fling that accusation around -- they know it can never apply to them.
It is possible to engage in gay sex and still be against the charade of calling two men married.
How-ever if you are a Democrat, you get away with murder!
That was Larry Flint's defense of his having sex with a chicken, that it "wasn't against his standards" therefore , no hypocrosy.
I think you have define “ toe tapping “, what it is and is not
Barney Frank anyone?
Here is the convoluted logic of the Dem-rat hypocrisy argument:
The GOP should support adultery since a few members have done it.
It’s ridiculous.
If Larry Craig was smart enough to hire a lawyer I would hope that his lawyer had the brains to use the Seinfeld show’s Elaine Bennis defense and say he was trying to see if the police officer was able to spare a square.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1721404/posts
Here is the first paragraph of the article.
Mike Rogers, who calls himself "the nation’s leading gay activist blogger" has just finished a nationally-broadcast interview on the Ed Schultz Radio Show in which he alleges that Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig has engaged in same-sex sexual activity.
Nope, no agenda there
That is a mighty big hypothetical considering he got arrested for being Really Stupid. :)
I didn't really make that connection. This was a specific incident of hypocrisy, I don't see how anyone is - or could - connect that to traditional values voters as a whole.
In addition, the project will examine laws against public lewdness, “which are routinely misused to persecute and prosecute people who participate in non-traditional forms of sexual expression.”Restroom’s gay review stirs the pot in Malden“I’ve seen firsthand how the misuse of these [public lewdness] laws has ruined the lives of gay and bisexual men,” said Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
A gay Web site’s praise of bawdy bathroom behavior in Malden City Hall has sparked a tempest over the toilet.An anonymous letter sent to the City Council alerted them to a five-star ranking on the Gay Universe site for male-on-male sexual encounters in the stalls.
The men’s room in Malden City Hall is the only municipal building listed, according to the site. It’s a desirable destination some politicians are determined to blot out.
Frank Conway of the Government Center Commission, which oversees the bathrooms, said there have been arrests for trespassing and damage.
Like NO employees at City Hall ever participated IN the sex acts there. Right, just was a convenient location for non-employee visitors to City Hall. It’s not like an airport where everyone has business.
Gutsy Mayor Exposes National “Gay” Public Sex Scandal
Concerned Women for America 08-02-07 Concerned Women for America
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875350/posts
Fort Lauderdale, Florida Mayor Jim Naugle has been under rapid fire assault from homosexual activists and liberal media for asking people simply to obey the law and to be responsible and respectful to families and children. Recently, Mayor Naugle exposed a popular “gay” community website that serves as an online directory which both encourages and facilitates illegal, public and anonymous “gay” sex. The Mayor was particularly upset that this activity is taking place at two children’s parks in Fort Lauderdale.Matt Barber, Policy Director for Cultural Issues with Concerned Women for America (CWA), is both an attorney and former law enforcement officer who, in that capacity, has witnessed such behavior first-hand. While addressing the growing problem, Barber said, “We strongly suggest that local law enforcement authorities across America use this ‘cruising for sex’ website to identify the locations where this immoral and disease-spreading behavior is taking place.
This whole matter is revealing of the mindset of the radical homosexual movement. Members of the activist community in Fort Lauderdale and elsewhere are actually coming out in defense of public “gay” sex. The homosexual legal group, LAMBDA Legal calls such public sex a civil right in their “little black book,” and encourages such behavior. And a consortium of homosexual activist groups is calling on Mayor Naugle to resign or be censured for addressing the problem.
F***ing with Freepers: Sex catapults me to the big time
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) 1/13/05 CLIFF BOSTOCK
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1320791/posts
Of course, Freepers, as the creepy wing-nuts on the site are called, were not alone in being outraged by my column. I received quite a lot of mail, mainly from other gay people, questioning my argument that LA Fitness at Ansley Mall overreacted when it closed its sauna because of some occasional sex and reopened it with a new picture window overlooking the locker room. As an update, I might add that the window has effectively eliminated unseen sexual interactions inside the sauna and made room for another, more open form of sex between people on either side of the window: exhibitionism and voyeurism.Most of my correspondents argued that the occasional discovery of sex in the sauna merited involvement by the police and the health department, reconstruction of the sauna and a report by one of the local TV stations. And, as usual, they concluded that because I called that overreacting, I must favor sex in public spaces. No matter that I said I find the behavior annoying. To be righteous, I must find it — what? — criminally actionable.
So where is the hypocritical “gay rights” crowd today? Throwing a suspected sexually curious male under the bus and cheering on his demise.
Craig may or may not be gay, but he’s clearly an idiot. We need to weed the idiots out of the GOP and replace them with new blood.
At what point does such activism cross over into blackmail when a person hangs it over his head to sway his political vote?
Doesn't it depend on what the definition of "gay" is?
/sarcasm
The Judeo-Christian ethic sets a level of personal perfection that we are supposed to strive for. However, since no on is perfect, we all fail to meet that standard.
In the liberal's view, this makes us hypocrites. What they miss is that the knowledge of our own imperfection is part of the ethic in the first place. The fact that we strive to be better than we are does not (automatically) make any failings along the way hypocritical.
Huh?
meanwhile, Jefferson (D-La) remains in power for what might be, maybe, a more serious crime.
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