This whole Larry Craig episode has become an excuse for some thinly disguised comments...

[IndianaJones]

that cross the line of good taste and move into the realm of bigotry in the media and...elsewhere. I would hope that this type of language and humor would not be tolerated by those that claim a more enlightened outlook.

[SteppingRazor]

1. With me, as with Bob Allen and Ted Haggard, it's not the homosexuality, it's the hypocrisy. n/t

[IndianaJones]

3. Comments on his own hypocrisy seem completely reasonable to me .nt.

[malaise]

13. Ditto n/t

[pnwmom]

15. And yet isn't it also hypocritical

for DUers to throw around slurs like "pervert" and "deviant" with respect to Craig -- but not with Gov. Jim McGreevey, who acknowledged decades of similar behavior in his memoir?

[Omphaloskepsis]

17. Ummm. from wikipedia.

James Edward "Jim" McGreevey (born August 6, 1957) is an American Democratic politician. He served as the 52nd Governor of New Jersey from January 15, 2002, until November 15, 2004, when he left office three months after admitting that he had had an extramarital affair with a male employee. Upon publicly revealing his homosexuality on August 12, 2004, McGreevey became the first and, to date, the only openly gay state governor in United States history.

He was in office three years ago. It is stupid to think everything that happened in the past that was similar to what happens today must be brought into the conversation.

Clinton did it too.

[pnwmom]

18. His book, The Confession, came out a year ago.

And I didn't see people around here calling him a pervert, or a former pervert, despite his acknowledging decades of furtive, anonymous sex in public places.

[marmar]

2. They haven't even been that thinly disguised.....

Sadly, these kind of occurences always become raisons d'etre for homophobia and the curious obsession people have with who and how people have sex.

[IndianaJones]

5. many comments having NOTHING to do with Craig himself...

or only very weakly connected.

[rhett o rick]

4. Craig, claiming he isn't gay, is still missing the f****** point. We don't care if he is gay.

Craig is a sleaze, a hypocrite and a Republican.

[IndianaJones]

6. What does that have to do with gay jokes and comments about effeminate people we know? nt.

[pnwmom]

12. Or tossing around terms like "pervert" and "deviant"

which have been used as slurs against gays for decades.

[rhett o rick]

16. Sorry, did i speak out of turn?? nm

[Virginia Dare]

7. Exactly, just like I don't care what religion the asshat is either...n/t

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[goodhue]

9. The MAC

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[Swede]

10. This happens with religion all the time.

Gored oxes etc.

[Bitwit1234]

11. It is the hypocrisy.....oh lord yes the hypocrisity

how many times I, myself, have said, there is nothing wrong with being gay, it is the fact that they bash and slur those that are.

[Bake]

14. Not just the hypocrisy (which is staggering).

But also the trolling in the public restroom at the freakin' airport. That's pretty damn deviant, and I don't give a damn if it's for gay or straight sex.

Bake