[politics]

[holzman_tweed]

A while back I mentioned that Republican congresscritter Ed Schrock was going to get outed as Gay. It's happened. Here's the tapes.

He's resigned in disgrace.

Out, out damn'd spot.

Comments

[ursuscelticus.livejournal.com]

Now if only we could land a similar scoop about Ralph Reed...

[liana]

What an asshat. I love the spin he tried to put on it - "retiring effective immediately".

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Bwahahaha. Ah sweet schaudenfreude.

He even lied about his "attributes." (Standard practice in phone sex, I realize, but it's good frosting on an already perfect cake.)

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

One thing I'll say about this: I'm actually beginning to understand people like him.

No, really.

I'm starting to get WHY the most vitriolic homophobes and promulgators of anti-gay legislation keep getting outed. It never made sense before, but I get it now.

I mean, to me, anti-gay laws seem to make as much sense as anti-bacon laws. And less sense than anti-usury laws. Because, well, my religion, at least as some people interpret it, doesn't allow me to eat bacon or have gay sex.

Of the two, I prefer bacon.

And that's the point. Let's say that I really DID feel that gay sex, or bacon, was abhorrent and something that should be abstained from.

It's real easy for me to abstain from gay sex, less easy for me to abstain from bacon, but I could if I wanted to. And so there's no point in outlawing it.

But what if I felt a huge, deep craving for bacon. An uncontrollable craving for bacon -- deep and passionate. And I KNEW in my heart of hearts that G-d Hates Bacon.

Then I'd NEED the law to protect me from myself, wouldn't I? I mean, if you could just go and GET bacon at the supermarket, and not even have to feel ASHAMED of it -- if there were even ads on television SHOWING people eating bacon and implying that that was a reasonable lifestyle choice -- then that would make it harder and harder for me to actually abstain from bacon.

I might really want to outlaw pigs and pig farming. I could point to all the diseases that pigs carry, and the fact that pig farming is disastrous to the environment, and I could show people that it really is a deep and abiding threat to our American way of life. Which it is. And it would be reasonable to need legislation to keep protect us from it, because I'd KNOW just how seductive it was. It wouldn't be reasonable to expect ANYONE to be able to resist bacon, unless they had strong support from their family, and community, and government, in avoiding it.

Mmmm. Bacon.