Showing posts with label Senator Craig. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Senator Craig. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Gay liberation in the US Senate

This evening, I fell into a deep doze in front of the television news. Yet another Republican hidden homosexual politician caught in the act -- yawn. I've lost track of how many of these cases have made the news in the past year. It's difficult to feel sorry for these guys because they have all taken pains to develop "strong family values" images. To the man, they are all anti-homosexual marriage, gay rights in general, and vote for such "pro-family" legislation such as abstinence education and anti-abortion measures.

They must either be filled with self-loathing or are so determinedly hypocritical that they have no problem in pandering to fundamentalist religionists in order to maintain power. In this case, Craig's flailing excuses make diaper-fetishist Senator Vitter appear almost manly, in the Chris Matthews sense of the word.

Such a waste. All these closeted Republicans could have done so much for gay liberation, instead they chose to play the game of power-seeking and denial.