Well, other than his wife, that is.
So, on any other day Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez resigning would be THE topic in the blogosphere. And — to be fair — its had its share of ink (pixels) devoted to it yesterday.
But it’s easily been wiped off the map of awareness by the Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) bathroom stall sex scandal. It’s pretty much all that anybody in the Blogosphere is talking about today.
Between Gonzalez retiring and Craig trolling for some man sex in a public restroom, well — the Left-o-sphere is besides themselves in joy. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of their heads have exploded from the daily double.
My reaction? A big feh.
I don’t care what other adults do with their sex lives. Nor whom they do it with or to — as long as their partner(s) is/are of legal age and consents to the act(s). So the man likes bathroom sex with other men? So what. I’m betting that a fair share of those on the progressive left who are reveling in this news probably do too.
I know, I know. The RIGHT (every last single one of us — it’s THE party requirement) are against deviant sex acts and are for “family values”. And to ever participate in anything the left considers outside of those boundaries render us all ABSOLUTE HYPOCRITES.
Whatever.
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UPDATE:
Some sane perspective from the Left:
Sure, he’s a hypocrite, sure he’s probably gay or bi or whatever, and sure, I despise his politics. The problem is, I’m torn between the schadenfreude of watching another one of the Family Values crowd being shown up, and feeling really bad for the guy, because he didn’t do anything.
Look at the police report. Did he directly ask a cop for sex? No. Did he expose himself lewdly (as opposed to exposing himself to use the facilities)? No. Did he do anything that was unambiguously sexual? No.
All he did was tap his foot, reach down (possibly to pick up a piece of TP), wiggle his fingers, and put his bag in front of him when he sat down. Oh, and he waited in front of an occupied stall. Even if he did everything the cop said he did, where was the lewd conduct? No actual sex happened. No actual sex was discussed. And if it wasn’t for the sheer embarrassment of the situation, you’d be writing about the overzealous cop who arrested a sitting US Senator for no apparent reason.
If Craig was looking for sex, I hope that he can look into his heart and realize that it’s 2007, and gay people are allowed to be out, and even get involved in meaningful relationships that don’t begin and end in a squalid men’s room. I’d hope that he’d recognize that there are even gay Republicans out there (look at former Rep. Kolbe, for one), and that a lot of the stigma and fear that still exists about homosexuality in this society has to do with the behavior of people who are in the closet.
But that, to me, is another issue entirely. The issue here is, why is the Minneapolis Airport PD arresting people for such flimsy reasons? Why do judges and prosecutors still accept these cases? Why, in 2007, 43 years after LBJ’s chief of staff, Walter Jenkins, got busted in the men’s room YMCA in DC, have we apparently moved no further in our analysis of these situations?
Why? Because they get complaints from people who don’t want themselves or their kids to be solicited for sex when they are trying to take a leak. Generally, the solitications are much more overt and lewd. All these gestures may be benign to you, but to others they have meanings. Do you really want to go into a bathroom and hear two guys going at in in the stall next to yours? Or, what is more often the case, doing in right out in the open? It’s not like they exchange numbers and go somewhere private. Guys who do this have sexual compulsions and will troll public bathrooms on a regular basis.
Left by kma on August 28th, 2007 at 2:39 pm