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Joined: 24 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 6:32 pm Post subject: Another social conservative outed |
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A Republican senator pleaded guilty earlier this month to a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge stemming from his arrest at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, according to state criminal records.
Roll Call newspaper reported Monday that Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho was apprehended June 11 by a plainclothes police officer investigating complaints of lewd behavior in an airport men's room.
In recent years, Craig's voting record has earned him top ratings from social conservative groups such as the American Family Association, Concerned Women for America and the Family Research Council.
He has supported a federal constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, telling his colleagues that it was "important for us to stand up now and protect traditional marriage, which is under attack by a few unelected judges and litigious activists."
In 1996, Craig also voted in favor of the Defense of Marriage Act, which denies federal recognition to same-sex marriages and prevents states from being forced to recognize the marriages of gay and lesbian couples legally performed in other states.
Craig has also opposed expanding the federal hate crimes law to cover offenses motivated by anti-gay bias and, in 1996, voted against a bill that would have outlawed employment discrimination based on sexual orientation, which failed by a single vote in the Senate.
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Stop living in denial Larry. Feel free to express who you really are.  |
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
Joined: 25 May 2003
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Just for the record many neo cons if not most are not social conservatives. |
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idonojacs
Joined: 07 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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First of all, Koreans should be aware that homosexual advances in public in the United States can have serious interpersonal and legal repercussions, even arrest. Not sure the exact nature of this law, though.
They should also be aware that probably most Americans don't really care about the sexual orientation of their political representative. They do, hopefully, care about hypocrisy.
But what may be even more important is the danger of blackmail of Congressmen. Who knows what kind of votes were swayed by knowledge of his secret life? And if it is anything like that creep from Florida, Congressman Mark Foley, the Republican hierarchy knew.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Foley
Foley was a homosexual child abuser who claimed to be a staunch opponent of child abuse:
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| In the House, Foley was one of the foremost opponents of child pornography. Foley had served as chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children. He introduced a bill, coined the "Child Modeling Exploitation prevention Act of 2002" to outlaw web sites featuring sexually suggestive images of preteen children, saying that �these websites are nothing more than a fix for pedophiles.� As it was written, the bill would have prohibited commercial photography of children, and it failed due to the unmanageable burden it would have presented to the legitimate entertainment industry.[18][19] In June 2003 he wrote letters to the governor and attorney general of Florida, asking them to review the legality of a program for teenagers of a Lake Como nudist resort in Land o� Lakes, Florida.[20] |
There even seems to be something of a network of weirdness withing some Republican circles. Remember that fake "journalist" who had a Whitehouse pass who was actually a homosexual prostitute? He was working for the Bush administration in some sort of capacity. There is something very, very sick going on here.
Here is some more background:
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Craig was chairman of the Republican Policy Committee, the fourth-ranking GOP leadership job, from 1996 to 2002. He also played a prominent role in recent immigration battles, championing rights for illegal farmworkers -- an advocacy that made the staunch conservative an unlikely target of groups opposing illegal immigrants. |
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/27/AR2007082701235.html?hpid=topnews
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/c000858/?hpid=topnews
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/channel-08/?hpid=topnews |
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contrarian
Joined: 20 Jan 2007
Location: Nearly in NK
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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Idaho is not going to be tolerant of Craig's homosexuality, if that is what the problem is. Nor is Idaho going to vote Democrat. The long term result of this is that Idaho will wind up with two Mormon social conservative Republican senators, Crapo being the other.
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 12:30 am Post subject: |
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| As much as I do take delight in these kinds of stories all he was really accused of was tapping his foot the wrong way in the bathroom... |
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Paddycakes
Joined: 05 May 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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On Slate they have a 'video re-enactment' based on the police report.
At least Craig hasn't tried to use the "I was doing research.... had to see what kind of Sin I was up against" line.... |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 7:45 am Post subject: |
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At least Craig hasn't tried to use the "I was doing research.... had to see what kind of Sin I was up against" line.... |
Or the academic variant on the excuse: "had to see what kind of misunderstood social phenomena I was up against".
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Laud Humphreys and the Tearoom Sex Study
Laud Humphreys, a sociologist, recognized that the public and the law-enforcement authorities hold highly simplistic stereotyped beliefs about men who commit impersonal sexual acts with one another in public restrooms. "Tearoom sex," as fellatio in public restrooms is called, accounts for the majority of homosexual arrests in the United States. Humphreys decided that it would be of considerable social importance for society to gain more objective understanding of who these men are and what motivates them to seek quick, impersonal sexual gratification.
For his Ph.D. dissertation at Washington University, Humphreys set out to answer this question by means of participant observation and structured interview. He stationed himself in "tearooms" and offered to serve as "watchqueen" - the individual who keeps watch and coughs when a police car stops nearby or a stranger approaches. He played that role faithfully while observing hundreds of acts of fellatio. He was able to gain the confidence of some of the men he observed, disclose his role as scientist, and persuade them to tell him about the rest of their lives and about their motives. Those who were willing to talk openly with him tended to be among the better-educated members of the "tearoom trade." To avoid bias, Humphreys secretly followed some of the other men he observed and recorded the license numbers of their cars. A year later and carefully disguised, Humphreys appeared at their homes claiming to be a health-service interviewer and interviewed them about their marital status, race, job, and so on.
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http://web.missouri.edu/~bondesonw/Laud.html |
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