Pity on Craig: Why People Need to Back Off

Larry Craig: 27-year Senator for uber-Republican Idaho. Married, three kids, a great job and a secure home.

And, apparently, several gay flings on the side.

This whole business with Craig started back in 2004 when an angry, gay blogger named Mike Rogers got ticked off about the attempted amendment to ban gay marriage and started a campaign to ‘out’ members of the Senate. Since then, he’s been alleging Craig came on to him several times, and has hounded him to death.

If that’s not a biased source, I don’t know what to call it.

First, okay, I’ll admit Craig was soliciting in that airport bathroom. You don’t touch people’s feet and stroke cubicle dividers unless you’ve got OCD or a serious concentration problem (one task at a time in there, man…). That’s illegal. Great.

Well, prove that he was actually going to have sex in that bathroom.

It’s quite probable that, being a highly-recognized, outspoken member of the Senate and part of a party in turmoil, not even mentioning the fact that he’s got a gaydar gun leveled at his head, he wouldn’t have done anything in a public place.

And there’s nothing illegal about hooking up with somebody in a bathroom and then going to a motel.

Some people might say that’s far-fetched. I don’t really think so. As of yet, only one person has come forward to claim steadfastly that he engaged in sexual contact with the Senator in public, and he has no proof. Add to that the fact that Craig has never been caught or outed for any reason, that he’s adamantly anti-gay rights, and that everything about his body language is straight, and you’re looking at a persecuted bisexual guy, at best.

I understand what he’s talking about when he says he was pressured into doing it. If he’d gone ahead and dragged it out in a courtroom battle, Nancy Grace would have been down his pants, in his shoes, up his shirt and back again before he had a chance to get his side of the story out. Mike Rogers probably would have orgasmed just reading about it. The media would have partied on his grave, even if he’d had his day in court and won.

Because I think, being an intelligent man with a large amount of money, and with such stout followers as the Christian Right, he’d have gotten off without even a slap on the wrist. I listened to those recordings. That man could talk himself out of a murder scene with a bloody knife in his hand and the deceased’s entrails on his jacket.

I’ve read interviews with his friends and neighbors. I’ve seen excerpts of him speaking with his wife. I’ve listened to what his kids have to say.

I don’t think Larry Craig is gay at all. I think he’s being persecuted.

And while what he was doing in that bathroom was misconstrued as illegal, I don’t think it should be a crime to try and pick people up in restrooms. Sure, screwing them is still against the rules, but there’s no reason you can’t hook up and move along. So prove he wasn’t doing that. PROVE IT.

And get the hell out of his pants, Nancy Grace…
God, Jiminy!
Larry and Suzanne aren’t gonna do this lying down anymore…Heheheh…