"After all, since homosexual couples can't reproduce, they will simply go after your children for seduction and conversion to homosexuality."—Rev. Lou Sheldon, Traditional Values Coalition, from report Homosexuals Recruit Public School Children
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Reading the above onslaught from the conservative base of the party, the lesson to any Republican elected official is if you are in the closet, you better stay there. If you come out as a gay Republican you stand a good chance of being drummed out of your office and party. While I feel sorry for certain individuals in the Republican Party who have found themselves on the wrong end of this bigoted juggernaut, as a whole and as to their recent election and popularity losses, I have to feel like the GOP have been hoisted on their own petard.
Getting back to Senator Craig, given the still hostile environment to them in this country in general, it is difficult for me to criticize any Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual or Transgender person for wanting to keep their sexual orientation secret and/or feeling forced to engage in secret sex practices. I don't know whether sexual repression is talked about in psychiatry/psychology anymore in terms of describing or predicting abnormal behavior, but it occurs to me that people who feel the need to repress their sexuality are often the ones secretly engaging in some of the more bizarre and/or anti-social sexual practices. Understanding that, should anyone criticize Senator Craig’s attempt to get fulfillment from anonymous sex in a bathroom? I cannot bring myself to do it. The contemptible actions by Senator Craig occurred long before, when he sold out to the conservative right GOP establishment that eventually turned on him, sold him out and destroyed him.
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