Spokane Mayor-Gay? - Bash at our own risk - its the same old story [View All]

[Stinky The Clown]

I just watched the story on this on Olbermann's show. The Cliff Notes about Hizzonor are:

Former Marine, former cop
Former state legislator, former and current anti gay rights crusader
Social (Christian extremist?) conservative
Current Spokane, WA mayor

20 year old history of allegations of some hanky panky with boys
He cops to chatting in a gay male chat room

Busted by the local Daily Blah for soliciting a reporter posing as a 17 year old boy, offers the 'boy' a city hall internship. Daily Blah sez that's the real story ... using city bux to entice a possible homosexual partner-albeit an underage one.

So what the fuck do we **do** with this? *Should* we do anything with this? I ask, because this has the potential to cut both ways.

On the one hand, it shows the hypocrisy of the moralist class. Anti Gay crusader chats with men in a gay centric computer chat room. That's an easy one. Kick his ass and watch him squeal.

On the other hand, we have this man about whom we can make the case that he is a repressed gay man. In short: He's gay. And what is this gay man doing? Why, he's attempting to sexually abuse a child.

So let's make the uninformed, unconsidered connection: Gay men seek to sexually abuse children. Therefor, Gay men are predators. Gay men are evil.

What the hell do we do about this?

We can't win when we win.