Pink elephants on parade
Q: How many Republican politicians can you fit in the closet?
A: Evidently, all of them.
It’s gone past ridiculous and straight to the absurd. At this point, it appears your average public restroom has more gay Republicans in it than clean handtowels. The “holier-than-thou” party has spent an awful lot of time on their knees this past year, but they haven’t been doing a lot of praying.
I have no theories why this is the case, other than I think that being gay is the way God made some people and being conservative is a choice, and almost every Republican I’ve met thinks the opposite.
But why question it? The larger point is that if you enjoy seeing politicians destroyed by their own hypocrisy, it’s been a very, very good year. So I give you the top five republican gay sex scandals of the past 12 months.
Mark Foley
U.S. Representative
(September 28, 2006)
The Crime: Sending sexually laced, gramatically challenged instant messages and e-mails to teenaged boys in the Congressional page program for more than 10 years.
The Hypocrisy: Chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children. One of the foremost opponents of child pornography in the Senate.
The Quote: “get a ruler and measure it for me”
The Video:
Ted Haggard
Leader of the National Association of Evangelicals
(November 2006)
The Crime: Paying male prostitutes for sex and snorting crystal meth.
The Hypocrisy: A powerful force in the evangelical movement, Haggard participated in weekly meetings with President George Bush and top advisors where he gave spiritual advice. He taught that homosexuality was an abomination and actively lobbied against gay rights.
The Quote: “I did not have a homosexual relationship with a man in Denver.”
The Video:
Larry Craig
U.S. Senator
Senate Liason for Mitt Romney’s Presidential Campaign
(June 11, 2007)
The Crime: Soliciting sex from an undercover cop in an airport bathroom
The Hypocrisy: Craig twice voted against adding the words “sexual orientation” to the federal hate crimes law. Craig also voted to give states the right to refuse to recognize gay marriage–a right they already had, but the Senator wanted to really, really prove he didn’t like gay people.
The Quote: “I am not gay, I don’t do these kinds of things.”
The Video:
Bob Allen
Member of the Florida House of Representatives
Florida Chairman of John McCain’s Presidential Campaign
(July 11, 2007)
The Crime: Offering an undercover cop $20 to allow Allen to blow him in a men’s room in a public park. After being arrested, Allen tried to explain that he only offered to blow the cop because the cop was a “burly black man” and he “didn’t want to become a statistic.”
The Hypocrisy: Allen was one of 21 Florida legislators to sign Gov. Jeb Bush’s friend-of-the-court brief supporting the state’s ban on gays adopting children, and he co-sponsored an unsuccessful bill that would have enhanced penalties for “offenses involving unnatural and lascivious acts” such as indecent exposure.
The Quote: “I certainly wasn’t there to have sex with anybody and certainly wasn’t there to exchange money for it.”
The Video:
Glenn Murphy Jr.
National Chairman of the Young Republicans
Chairman of the Clark County Republican Party
(July 28, 2007)
The Crime: Murphy got a fellow Young Republican drunk and then spent the night at his house. The other young man woke up in the middle of the night to find Murphy giving him mouth-to-penis resuscitation. After this incident, a 1998 sexual battery report came to light in which Murphy was alleged to have done the exact same thing.
The Hypocrisy: Murphy was a well-paid political consultant for Republican candidates and often advised them to use gay marriage as a wedge issue to paint their opponents as out of touch with traditional values.
The Quote: “I was in the Sound of Music in High School…don’t ask” (from his now-defunct Myspace page.)
The Video: Unfortunately, the Young Republicans took down all of their videos of Mr. Murphy. So instead, I give you:
Tags: gay, gop, republican, scandal, sex
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Listen here u dumb fuck, alot of liberals are gay, and you dont hear anything about them. And the joke above is absolutely absurd. And completely biased. Not all republicans are gay. just because a politician comes out of the closet, doent mean the whole party does.
The “liberals” in question are not openly anti-gay, either. Nobody is angry about them having gay sex. People are angry that they are hypocrites.
People don’t like them because they use their legislative power to deny gay people basic human rights! Ignorant people run this country and this is just another source to show it!
Question isn’t gay or not gay. Question is on hypocrisy. If I complained about people who own cars, but owned 3 of them myself, that is hypocrisy.
Not all gay just hypocrites
I’d be pissed off too if I were you dude. If my heroes’ #1 priority was regulating “deviant” sexual behavior, and they consistently turn out to engage in the same behaviors they claim to be against, I’d be pissed. I’d be scared and concerned about my own sexuality too. What a relief for me not having to give a damn about what other people do in their bedrooms! You have every right to be pissed and concerned not only with some talking head’s sexuality, but your own as well. Being a straight guy who doesn’t care what anyone else does, I’ve never had to deal with that, it must be very “hard” for you right now (LOLOL c what i done there?)
No it doent!
Yes, there are gay liberals. BUT THEY AREN’T CONDEMNING IN PUBLIC WHAT THEY PRACTICE IN PRIVATE.
I don’t know what ‘above’ you refer to as a joke, but I don’t think hypocrisy is ever funny, but even less so when it come from people with power over other lives and conditions of others
I love that this comment started off with “Listen here u dumb fuck”.
By love I mean, the same way I love these Republican scandals. Hilarious though they may be, you ultimately have to laugh just for the sake of staying sane.
ps – I think “the above joke” was John Marcotte’s below, if you’re curious. I thought it was a really funny joke.
just like a liberal to start saying shit about conservatives.
Just like a conservative to suck another man’s penis.
Just sayin’.
Just like a conservative to deflect attention away from the subject. These men were dragged kicking and screaming out of the closet. That is fact. It has noting to do with political affiliation, honey.
‘just like a liberal to start saying shit about conservatives.’??
Did you miss the part where THE ARTICLE WAS ABOUT REPUBLICAN SCANDALS!!!!!
You wanna write one about Democratic scandals, HAVE AT IT!! If you can get your head out of your ass long enough to do that, you may come to realize, the Republicans are practiced liars, and don’t give a shit about you until election time
I THINK YOU NEED YOUR PLEXIGLAS INSTALLED BEFORE YOU START WALKING INTO WALLS
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Errr, Chris, I don’t think so. Most of our non-gay lives are not consumed with the problems of gay people.
People don’t like them because they lie, cheat and steal, not because of anything that has to do with homosexuals.
I am having a big problem with some of the comments here. I believe that we need to make a quick and fast distinction between homosexual and the homosexual pedophile.
Men who seek sex with children are pedophiles whether they are homosexuals or not.
There is a disturbing trend in social media to discuss pedophilic concerns along with homosexual ones. They are 2 different things and the conversation about one must be kept away from the conversation about the other.
I believe this trend is occurring because homosexual pedophiles have worked long and hard alongside homosexuals int heir fight for equal rights in society. And as a result they expect to be fully bestowed with those same rights the homosexual has won for himself. We can never allow this to happen!
The homosexual community has, so far, shown a lot of compassion for the homosexual pedophile because there a are a lot of them alive who remember when their sex was illegal, as the pedophile’s is now. And if that is their choice, that is all well and good.
But we as parents who want our children to safely grow into their own sexuality without pedophilic influences must be vigilant in ensuring that no pedophiles are granted the same sexual rights as other adult-adult relationships to take advantage of our children.
Most cases of pedophilia end up being heterosexual pedophilia.
I didn’t say all. I didn’t say none. I said most.
I’ll repeat, for those who didn’t get it the first time. Statistics indicate that most pedophiles identify as heterosexual, have girl friends, or are married with children of their own. Sometimes they also molest their own children. Homosexuality has nothing to do with pedophilia. Most pedophiles are straight.
Your crazy if you think homosexuals have compassion for pedophiles, because they relate some how. Do you even KNOW any gay people?????
I know quite a few. They have even more contempt for pedophiles because they don’t relate to them, and people like you make stupid, uninformed comments like yours
And to even give voice to the idea that sexual rights will EVER be granted to pedophiles just shows how much fear the Repubs have been shoveling around and you’ve gobbled it up.
I feel sorry for you
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Okay, you crazy Democrat-haters: this isnt about their freaking sexuality! when you aggressively refute gay marriage and rights and then sleep with a teen boy you are a GIANT FREAKING IDIOT. HOW BOUT NOT BEING STUPID AND TAKING POLITICAL OFFICE, HUH?
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How is this hypocritical? Just because the individuals here participate in homosexual activity doesn’t mean they have to support gay rights or believe that it is morally right. It might be hypocritcal if they believed contrary to their proffessed belief set, but who would be able to discern that?
Closeted gays are far more dangerous & lethal to gay rights than straights.
Bigotary at its worst!!!
I can’t get past the listing of “he co-sponsored an unsuccessful bill that would have enhanced penalties for “offenses involving unnatural and lascivious acts” such as indecent exposure” as a part of Bob Allen’s “hypocrisy.”
Is indecent exposure something a lot of gays get charged with? Is this crime unique to or significantly prevalent among homosexuals? Is indecent exposure a gay rights issue?
It’s the “unnatural” part that is the giveaway. That’s the codeword to target gays,
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