The way this blog is listed you will probably read part 2 first, but that's okay because the order isn't relevant. This first bit is reminiscent of the Florida debacle a few weeks ago, but is higher profile and sort of strange. The news is that senator Larry Craig plead guilty to lewd misconduct by supposedly making sexual advances on an undercover police officer. He is being pressed to resign as senator while he argues that he should not have plead guilty at all. The worst part is that the police report states that the lewd misconduct was tapping feet with the officer in the adjacent stall and *gasp* waving at him under the stall barrier. This reeks more of extortion than anything, how is that lewd and gay misconduct? It doesn't even fit the definition of sexual harassment and could easily be regarded as a misunderstanding. Maybe all he wanted was toilet paper. I'm not saying that's the case, but it you can't really get much out of that kind of behavior. The cherry on this whole ridiculous case is that the Senate is asking him to resign for it, rather than focusing on his hypocrisy. If the incident really was a sexual advance (and popular opinion says it was, even though consensual) then it is badly out of character for a senator who is against gay rights. I don't have any problem with a senator being horny (well I do if he acts out inappropriately because of it), the real issue is a senator whose opinion can't be trusted.
Also, who the hell is against gay rights these days? Come on, get with the times...
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