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Don’t Ask, Don’t Kvell
The following is a snippet of an article by Marie Cocco that was passed on to Feisty Aphrodite. It was originally published by TruthDig:
I’d been enjoying a good chuckle at the YouTube video documenting Mitt Romney’s transformation from dedicated pro-choice advocate in Massachusetts to die-hard abortion foe on the Republican hustings when Larry Craig gave us that come-hither foot tap.
The dog days of August haven’t been livelier since we spent the summer of 2003 talking about Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum. He was, followers of the Republican war on gays might recall, a conservative senator from Pennsylvania who enlightened us with his thinking about sodomy by opposing what even the conservative Supreme Court has legalized, as well as speaking out against the right of consenting adults to commit adultery. Santorum threw into his definition of marriage-the interview centered on gay marriage-what matrimony is not: “It’s not, you know, man on child, man on dog or whatever the case may be.”
Santorum’s doggie discourse was but one of the lamentable stumbles on his way to defeat last November. Since then, Republican sex-capades have taken on more of a freak-show quality. Who could have predicted that after Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., got caught sending lewd instant messages to young male congressional aides, Sen. David Vitter, R-La., would have his name turn up on the rolls of the D.C. madam? And there was no way-none at all-to predict that there would be not one but two Republicans-besides the disgraced Craig, there’s a Florida state senator previously affiliated with John McCain’s presidential campaign-who would get caught compromised in a men’s room stall?
As someone who does not believe gays are inherently immoral or deranged, and who finds Washington sex scandals enticing because they hold the potential for that bipartisan participation so elusive in the halls of Congress, I have but one wish: Don’t bring ‘em on.
Read the entire article featured by Truthdig here.
