Kevster
Sep 2nd, 2007, 12:20 PM
I suppose this is more for non-American people, as it seems like this is the sort of news many Americans would get served up on the main channels.
Anyhow, this adds more fuel to the idea that people who are anti-gay are actually scared about being gay themselves, just what they've got be scared of (apart from God?) and public opinion (yawn) nobody knows.
'Sorry I quit, says anti-gay senator arrested in airport toilet
Paul Harris in New York
Sunday September 2, 2007
The Observer
It all came to an end under a clear blue Idaho sky, in the harsh gaze of a dozen TV cameras. Senator Larry Craig, who started the week as a revered stalwart of the conservative wing of the Republican Party, ended it with his career in ruins as he announced his resignation yesterday.
It has been one of the most bizarre sex scandals to hit America and its ending carried that theme on. As the unfortunate senator went through the ritual of committing political suicide, a handful of protesters waved banners. 'Senator Craig is not gay. He is a pervert,' read one. Another asked: 'Do you know what stall your senator is in?' [...]'
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2160810,00.html
Anyhow, this adds more fuel to the idea that people who are anti-gay are actually scared about being gay themselves, just what they've got be scared of (apart from God?) and public opinion (yawn) nobody knows.
'Sorry I quit, says anti-gay senator arrested in airport toilet
Paul Harris in New York
Sunday September 2, 2007
The Observer
It all came to an end under a clear blue Idaho sky, in the harsh gaze of a dozen TV cameras. Senator Larry Craig, who started the week as a revered stalwart of the conservative wing of the Republican Party, ended it with his career in ruins as he announced his resignation yesterday.
It has been one of the most bizarre sex scandals to hit America and its ending carried that theme on. As the unfortunate senator went through the ritual of committing political suicide, a handful of protesters waved banners. 'Senator Craig is not gay. He is a pervert,' read one. Another asked: 'Do you know what stall your senator is in?' [...]'
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2160810,00.html