US Senator Larry Craig has resigned over his arrest for soliciting a plain-clothed policeman for sex. The policeman, it appears, made signals suggesting he was up for such an encounter, and when Craig responded, he was arrested.
The irony is that the Republican Party is supposedly the domain of the Christian Right. It has so far displayed very little Christian compassion towards a man whose only crime (assuming hypocrisy is not a crime yet) was to tap the shoe of a man who was wanting his shoe to be tapped. However distasteful many people may find this sort of gay cruising, no one can ever answer the question as to why heterosexual males (or indeed females for that matter) are not routinely entrapped and then arrested for soliciting anoynmous sex in nightclubs.
Dale is completely right. While Craig may be a hypocrite (in fact, clearly, he is), he’s been left high and dry by his so-called friends and the party he has served. The Christian Right’s coup of the Republican Party is complete. The Libertarians who supported the GOP under Reagan, must surely now find another home if they haven’t already.
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This is fairly consistent of the Religious Right element of the GOP who are more concerned with intangible lunacy than empirical evidence. Before I left the party I warned those I knew that this would happen. One cannot negotiate with True Believers. The brief supremacy of the GOP in retrospect will be portion of the time after the Religious Right took over the party, and before the moderates left the party. The worst thing is that now the Democrats will regain power after never having had to examine their own problems and modify failed policies. It seems less likely still that if they win back the White House and hold congress. Those religious nuts have cost America dearly.