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“I am not gay!”

Sounds a lot like Nixon’s “I am not a crook!” Methinks the gentleman doth protest too much.

But…

Joan Garry at the Huffington Post has a good point:

The problem is, as I see it, is that Larry Craig is talking about the wrong “problem.”

No one is accusing Craig of being gay. They are accusing him of being a pervert.

He doesn’t have to answer to the American public about being gay. He has to answer to the American public, the Idaho voters and the police about being a pervert in a public restroom.

It would be a good thing if the nation at large saw it that way but I fear a good portion of Mr. Craig’s voters think the problem is homosexuality.

Postscript: From Dana Milbank in the Washington Post:

From the opening line of his statement yesterday, Sen. Larry Craig was in trouble. “Thank you all very much for coming out today,” he began.

“Coming out” was perhaps not the best phrase for a guy who had pleaded guilty to some rather un-senatorial conduct in an airport men’s room — and now stands accused in his home-state paper of a homosexual encounter in Union Station.

…Craig didn’t get into trouble for being gay; he got into trouble because he “engaged in conduct which I knew or should have known tended to arouse alarm or resentment.”

Though he has been writing laws for the past 32 years, the senator spoke yesterday as if he lacked the most basic grasp of the legal system.

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29. August 2007Current Events 4 Comments »