Gays Under Rocks, In Shadows, Literally Everywhere

Senator Craig appears to be off of CNN's radar but the local and gay media are still tracking in. Currently Craig's counsel is making the last few attempts to get the original guilty plea rescinded. Funny how this is still dragging on. After his carefully worded “I have never been gay” press conference. And after his adopted kids stepped onto Good Morning America with redirection from the “ZOMG is Dad the Gay?1!?” to this being exclusively about an “accusation of a lewd, immoral, illegal act.” Whatever.

Giggling about this over dinner with a friend when she pointed out something I hadn't even considered: tapping your feet in a public restroom does not constitute a lewd, immoral, illegal act. A lot more than that must have gone on… but what? Wish I could get my hands on the police report since I don't believe the “wrong place at the wrong time” claims. Desperate defenses and outlandish assertions aside, Craig plead guilty. A college-educated man with over 30 years experience in the political system made a crap shoot and lost. Time to move on, Senator.

The first comment on the original article still makes me smile: “Didn't I read this story yesterday and the day before and the day before that? Oh no wait those were all stories about other married republican conservative christians showing their family values to strangers in public bathrooms.” Politicians are going to be loosely representative of their constituency, which means a de facto 10% are homosexual. That 10% needs to fucking represent their minority. Hopefully (sic) there will be some decent human beings in the remaining 90% to back them up.

At a minimum, stop demonizing homosexuals and give us the civil rights we so richly deserve. Not as entitlement but as members of the human race. Regardless of what prophets or whores claim, we're normal people with jobs, dreams, hopes, CD collections, and all that life stuff. We're doctors, lawyers, baristas, grocery clerks, neighbors, friends and family members. Besides, we need room for hypocrisy in other, more pedantic areas… *snicker*

• Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
  William Hazlitt

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