Posted on 04/28/2009 11:47:15 AM PDT by DesertRenegade
As Obama passes his first 100 days in office, I find myself sad that we liberals have less and less to complain about. Guantanamo Bay is closing, good health care policy is in the works, and I no longer have nightmares about McCain invading my living room on top of an elephant as if he were a Carthaginian emperor.
Nonetheless, liberals in 2009 still have more things to complain about than Holden Caulfield would, holding a broken Miley Cyrus record.
One such complaint is homosexuality in America. This week's "gay controversy" surrounded Miss California and her Twitter-quarrel with Perez Hilton. I could take an opinion on this. But I won't. Why? Because important American figures don't wear tiaras.
Moving on, a controversy occurred at the Tribeca Film Festival. A documentary titled "Outrage," which outs allegedly closeted right-wing politicians, previewed this past weekend in lower Manhattan.
To begin with, I should be upset there's a movie dedicated to this. To out someone is a bit of a faux pas, and this movie probably doesn't help the queer cause. At the same time, it kind of makes the director of the film, Kirby Dick, look like the same four-letter word that is also his last name. On the other hand, gossiping about and laughing at the follies of Republican congressmen is definitely quite fun.
Dick's film draws on a compilation of substantiated rumors to expose conservative Republicans. The more obvious of these individuals includes former Rep. Mark Foley, who was indicted for sexual relationships he had with 16-year-old male pages, and Larry Craig, who was caught cruising a men's bathroom at a Minnesota airport.
The Mark Foley controversy surfaced in 2006 before the midterm elections, causing quite a stir. Many other Republican congressmen were implicated as they were accused of helping to cover up the scandal, this being one possible reason that Democrats won back the House in 2006.
The illicit e-mails were released publicly and, if you Google "Mark Foley e-mail," results will take you to the complete transcripts. Reading this, you can see how, um, "imaginative," Foley is.
What's most interesting about the scandal is that Foley asked this young page to send him naked pictures as he simultaneously championed several bills proposing harsher anti-child pornography laws.
He also passed a law allowing Boy Scouts of America to have access to FBI background checks. I bet he regrets that one.
Larry Craig, too, has advocated legislative action that hinders his own sexual adventures. He was set up by the police in a sting where he solicited sex in public. Apparently he never heard of Craigslist.
What's most ironic is the senator's legislative record.
It probably wasn't the best idea to vote against HIV/AIDS support when you're having sex with random dudes in airport bathrooms. Good job, senator. I hope you used a condom.
This scandal exemplifies the sort of discriminatory treatment against homosexuals that the senator only exacerbated through his voting record.
Federal agents have been baiting men in public bathrooms since at least the 1950s, unfairly and systematically targeting gay men. Do we ever hear of women being baited by federal agents to have sex in a dressing room at Macy's?
As Dick's film is reportedly trying to convey, these instances reveal the hypocrisy of the political right, whose actions contradict their voting record.
Thus, these inconsistencies hinder any chance of social progress so that senators — and other closeted individuals — don't have to solicit random sex in public bathrooms like at a Minnesota airport. Or even a university library?
He made it up. I write for the Malden Observer. If I wrote something like that, it would be my last column.
I thought the author wrote that important Americans don't wear tiaras?
Plus, he doen't seem to be aware that Miss California finished 2nd.
We complain about gays flaunting their homosexuality then we complain that they have a secret lifestyle. If a guy/gal is gay but every other thing in their life is conservative what are they to do. Do we just tell them sorry go be a democrat. I admit it would be better if they were up front but it is a difficult thing to do.
“I have never seen such a railroading of justice since the Duke rape accusations.”
I thought about that too until I read the police report. Larry Craig actually moved his foot into the other stall and touched the other guys foot. Then he rubbed his hand along the bottom edge of the stall panel as some kind of signal. If you read the police report, there is no way all this stuff could be coincidence. I can’t imagine my foot going over into another person’s toilet stall and touching them, much less grabbing the bottom of the divider. This stuff is just too creepy for a normal person to be doing in a dirty toilet stall.
“If a guy/gal is gay but every other thing in their life is conservative what are they to do.”
If a guy/gal is an abortion doctor but every other thing in their life is conservative what are they to do.
If a guy/gal is an environmental wacko but every other thing in their life is conservative what are they to do.
If a guy/gal is a feminazi but every other thing in their life is conservative what are they to do.
Exactly.
I did not know that. But isn’t it hypocritical of the Left to castigate an adult male looking for a consensual relationship with another adult? Where is the crime? I’m not saying it is wrong, it is just that left leaning pundits and comics took potshots at this guy for what. Being gay?
I wonder about this. Did he advocate legislation against homosexual behavior?
How about advising them to abstain from homosexual sexual activity as celibate Christian singer David MacDonald advocates is his piece “Gay Sex is Downright Dangerous and Abstinence Won’t Kill You: I Should Know.”-
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2204723/posts
Mr. MacDonald’s quote here is very good:
“The culture of pushing sex down people’s throats is not working. There is nothing wrong with abstinence from sex. This goes for everyone who is not married to someone of the opposite sex. I’ve been single and chaste for many years after having left the gay community. You don’t die from not having sex.”
Alas, Mr. MacDonald has too much integrity and common sense for most in today’s culture.
I suppose there is no chance we would be fortunate enough that this would be his last column?
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