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Who cares what political party it is? God doesn't.
Who cares what sin it is? God doesn't.
On Judgement Day, which is surely coming, and racing towards us sooner than most folks think.....
What will any of us say when God asks, "What part of the Ten Commandments did you not understand?"

The big story is that these Republicans were lying all along. The Clinton impeachment was really a purely political scam. The Republicans knew full well it was a trivial issue, and they used it to the hilt for political gain for many years. Now, when the shoe is on the other foot, you can see the Republicans squirm and spin. They shot themselves in the foot many times over, by using sex as a political tool. What goes around comes around.

"Gee Rob – do tell us all, exactly HOW have Republicans told you how to live your life?

By the way – how does it feel being a mouthpiece? No substance – just howling because someone of the opposite party got into trouble.
Posted By Phil Chicago, Ill : November 1, 2007 3:42 pm "

Gee Phil, maybe these characters have told me how to live my life by making laws that tell me what's moral and what's not, what I can and can't do if you don't understand. Maybe if they would set an example and live what they preach we could go along with it or at least understand, but the hypocrisy of these guys is just plain nuts. Oh and by the way I am not a "mouthpeice" for the Dems I personally feel that is the biggest problem with our country. You have to be one or the other.

Add me and my pig Elmer to that list who want change. No, Elmer's not a sow. That's right, the movie had it bassackwards... Ever seen a pigz dic? Long as yur four arm and all scruwy, like one of them fancy wine bottle openers. Suuuweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Okay, he's scum. Any Republican who touts "family values" and then gets caught with his pants down should be villified. But I'd like to see Congressman Jefferson get nailed for the cash he hid in his freezer, as well as the missing Atlantic City mayor, and Robert "KKK" Byrd, and Barney "house of prostitution" Frank, and Teddy "neck brace" Kennedy, et al. BOTH political parties have their share of hypcocrites and criminals and low-lifes, and they tend to get away with it more readily than the average American. So what else is new? Let's try voting them out of office for a change.

Is comparing homosexuality to incest and beastiality really the best argument you can come up with? –Andrew Moyell

Are you saying that my RIGHTS are not as equally important as yours due to my sexual orientation??

"The difference is and many of my like minded posters have said this as well, both sides have jerks that make each party look bad, the difference is that only one party admits it."

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Did Rep. Richard Curtis admit he is gay? Did Sen. Larry Craig admit it? Did McCain's Florida campaign co-chairman State Senator Bob Allen admit anything? Did Dennis Hastert do anything about Mark Foley? Craig. Hastert and Sen. David Vitters are still in office.

Yes, there are jerks on both sides. However, it is only wishful thinking to want to believe that it is equal on both sides. Take a count of all the sexual morality hypocrites and see how close it is. Even Ronald Reagan and Fred Thompson had to marry pregnant girlfriends.

Yes, Richard Curtis, you ARE gay. You were born with it. You may not be flaming, but you do feel that way towards men every now and then. It's okay. Suck it up and join the club, man!

First Karl Rove and his buddy for hire Jeff Gannon, now this guy. Is every Republican secretly gay?

In 2006 we had "The Da Vinci Code"_ Now 2007 we have the Republican Party Code "GOP" = GAY OLD PARTY_In

2008 the best motion picture award goes to "THE GOP DRAGS ON"_

For everyone wondering why CNN puts this stuff on the Ticker, just look at the number of replies it generates. Obviously, we're reading it, so maybe we are closet Political Ticker lovers.

Gay as a four dollar bill.

I am not shocked at the gops sex with males. Look at the evalist that was talking with Bush every day about gays, bashing them, and then he hired out for sex.

The "contract" that the pervert broke was that of his marriage vows. It appeasrs that the two perverts stiffed each other in more ways than one. The John deserves to be thrown out of office and home and the Johnette should rot in jail with the rest of the deviants. This isn't politics, its pure values.

One more thought: After reading some of the profound bits of wisdom from such bastions of conservative thought as Ann Coulter and others, I am wondering why most conservatives dont seem to have the concept of the word "democratic". Always they refer to people from that party as the "democrat" candidate, or the "democrat" president... Imagine the word spoken in a Brooklyn accent. "Da democrat party". You can always spot a conservative "thinker" by thier seeming inability to use proper word forms. Another example: George Bush's speech about Iraq, "This issue has been drug out over and over". I know about their contempt for anything intellectual or intelligent, but are they really that uneducated?

"I wonder when Hillary's affair with her staffer Huma Abedin will be picked up by any of the liberal media. I won't be holding my breath." – Neill C., Montgomery, Al

A very cheap shot, Neill. I should bill you for the electricity that it took to download your comment.

It was only after posting my comment on this story that I took the time to read some of the other comments on it. The virulent notes from the right are significant. Reacting to their obvious embarrassment suffered from the series of recent stories about gay Republican scandals, they respond in a predictable manner: attack the Democrats! "Sex sells, this proves it!", "Well, this should assure him of another 6 terms in office", blah, blah, blah. I for one dont think of this as a perfect chance to attack Republicans or conservatives. That is the mentality of those people themselves. What I see is a disturbing situation created by conservatives, no matter who suffers from their attacks, Democrat or Republican. The bible says "We shall suffer not a witch to live", and etc. and etc. Also similar caveats concerning homosexuals. Is it too much to ask rational thinking people to consider that the Christian Bible is not right in every single case? Let's rise to the level that we were made to rise to folks!

" . . . dressed in women's lingerie . . . approached a young man in the "Hollywood Erotic Boutique: . . . offered him $1,000 for unprotected sex at a nearby hotel . . . At the conclusion of the sexual activities, Curtis fell asleep."

Those are Republican family values for you! Just ask Mark Foley or Larry Craig, among many others who have not (yet) hit the front page with their antics.

Dear CNN: You could almost feel sorry for conservative law-makers, as some of them are so obviously between a rock and a hard place. They must be torn between their party's barbaric stance against homosexuality and their own (perfectly natural, I guess) urges to express their sexuality in non-sanctioned ways, at least according to the platform of the 5th century thought process of the Republican party. I have more sympathy for him by far than the hate-filled bigots that set the rules for his own party..

Republican again..is there a end to this crap,end of gops to be elected,going on for years.

Why, out of 139 comments, is there only ONE person concerned that this is adultery and puts his family at great risk by doing this? How about heterosexual adulterous acts? How about the millions of people who do that? Forget the gay part, where is your outrage about the adultery? Are we so accustomed to it that we don't see it as a sin and a cancer? SAD SAD SAD!!

Phil in Chicago,

I can't speak for Rob, but the Republican lawmakers sure are telling me how to live my life. They start by telling me I can't marry my partner. They continue by keeping me out of her hospital room when she was in a head-on collision with a drunk driver going the wrong way down a one-way. And I'm sure it will only continue when our child is born and we have to jump through every legal loophole imaginable just so either of us can pick her up from the nurse's office when she has a fever at school.

CNN and other news sources are doing their job by exposing people like Curtis for their hypocrisy. Maybe once America realizes that these people are not making laws based on a sense of moral rightness, but rather because they are too afraid to be true to themselves and live an honest, but, at times, trying life...maybe then...and only then...can people like me and my family take a deep breath and enjoy the freedoms our taxes pay for. If CNN doesn't do this...if the media doesn't do this...nobody will ever do it. Certainly not lawmakers like Rep. Curtis.

Tom Dedham, Mass: Come out of the closet.

Posted By Anonymous : November 1, 2007 1:31 pm

I see you are as gutless by posting anonymously as you are stupid for making the remark itself.

Not only are you anonymous, you are insignificant.

Now to the people that are missing my points:

Point #1 – The stories in New Jersey got scant coverage at best and NEVER made it to the ticker for all of us to discuss and blog on. That was my factual statement, remember, reading is fundamental.

Point #2 – Using all of your flawed logic that states that ALL Republicans are hypocrites because a select FEW preach family but don't live it, and that is why this is a BIG story, I could easily say that the New Jersey dozen should have been an EVEN BIGGER story as your WHOLE PARTY ran with one slogan, to clean up poiltics.

How did that work out?

Wouldn't that make you ALL hypocrites as well?????

The difference is and many of my like minded posters have said this as well, both sides have jerks that make each party look bad, the difference is that only one party admits it.

Look up Barney Frank and Gerry Studds and that Bill Clinton guy to name a few, nah, all just good guys.

James
You might want to do some research, CNN did stories on the Medal of Honor winner, I watched them. You keep watching Fox and believing the crap they feed you, it must be nice to live in lala land. Fox reported the other day, that there were no casualties in Iraq for the previous week, when if fact there were six dead Americans and dozens of dead Iraqis. Delusional is what you are, and the only bias is on your side, I bet you believe Saddam attacked us on 9/11

When CNN decides to run almost 50 (no exaggeration) articles on Larry Craig – but not ONE article about the Navy Seal that was awarded the Medal of Honor (a very rare and honorable event)… YOU call that objective reporting??

This guy (Richard Curtis) is a political pimple – a Washington State Representative, WOW. But CNN feels it deserves the #1 spot on the Blog and front page of their Headline News *BECAUSE* it's a republican – involving sex.

If you can't see the agenda – critical thinking has escaped you.

Posted By James, Phoenix AZ : November 1, 2007 12:44 pm

hahahaha, the party of family values!

Hmmm... Republican = closeted homosexual?

Responding to this post "If I want to marry my sister or mother or dog, can I then say I don't have equal rights too? Isn't that a civil rights issue??

Posted By Ga Voter : November 1, 2007 10:48 am
Is comparing homosexuality to incest and beastiality really the best argument you can come up with? It's a shocker you didn't post under your real name. I'd be embarrased by my lazy logic too!

To Chris, cbus:

You forgot/left out 1 more "na", just fyi.

Personally, I don't care if a son marries his mother or sister. It's against my personal taste, but it they're two consenting adults, who I am I to say what people can and can't do if they're not hurting anyone else.

No one seems to get this simple point – stop trying to control people's lives because of you're own personal opinions. Why shouldn't a fellow human being have the same rights as you if they're not hurting anyone else? Give me one good reason other than your own personal opinion or some lame bible quote that certain actions are "wrong." I say live and let live people. Poeple should be able to do what they want as long as they aren't hurting anyone else. Period.

The reason that people flip out when they see Republicans doing these things isn't because of their conduct per se, but because they make a living denying people's rights and pandering to ignorance in order to get votes.

Interesting. The people attacking the democrats posting here have not only strayed from the fact that the man BROKE THE LAW, is in denial about being gay, consistanly votes to restrict the rights of gays and endangered his own family by having unprotected sex of the most dangerous kind for spreading disease but are also somehow twisting this into democrats slamming gays. Where's the logic? How the heck did they come up with that? Weird.

And don't get me started on the christians saying that being gay is a choice and we are doomed to playing in satan's playground. They just have a fundamental lack of knowledge about when, how and why the bible was written. (Here's a hint, study history in something other than the bible).

You are either born gay or not, it ain't a matter of choice, people. Every year, more SCIENTIFIC studies are showing a physiological link to sexual orientation, NOT a psychological link. So, just like laws are not to be made that discriminate against people based on the color they were born, they should not be made to discriminate against your sexual orientation since you have as much control over that as you have over being white, Afro-American, Chinese, etc.

Hmm, I seem to have stryed from the point . . . oh yeah, the idiot proved that he was a lier (I'm not gay), a hypocrite (self-explanatory), a criminal (broke the law despite being from the 'law and order' party . . . yeah, what a joke that's proving to be) and was a scumbag to his family.

I'm not a republican, I'm not a democrat but on this one, I have to go with the democrats.

BTW, the non-capitalizations were done on purpose. Have a nice day,

The Liberal/homosexual/socialist/CNN conspiracy has been hard at work! While poor Republicans try desperately to raise important issues, the demo/libo/commy/homo/socialists have bribed CNN to once again distract attention from the real issues. O wake up, America! Why oh why can't you fall for the same old load of Conservative crap just one more time!

Neal C. – Liberal media, how 2000 is that? Fox news has twice the viewers of CNN and MSNBC combined, 60% of print media is owned by a conservative. As far as your Hillary affair, call Bill O'really.

Until reading recent stories, including the latest on Republican Curtis in Spokane, I was not sure what GOP stood for. I now know it is "Gay Old Party"

Despite the obvious.... I find it appalling that he would risk his wife's physical health (the mother of his children) by having unprotected sex with a man he met at an adult bookstore who finds it acceptabel to have unprotected sex for money. That is so disgusting. It made me want to vomit. What if he has a disease? Way to go! Now, why again do they call it the conservative right?

James,

The Navy Seal awarded the Medal of Honor was front page on CNN for two days. First when they announced he would get it, and then when he got it. This is our problem with the GOP, they never let the facts get in the way of a good liberal or gay bashing.
The Dems and liberals are not jumping on gays or acting homophobic in any of these instances. It's the hypocrisy. This guy is accused of having solicted sex (illegal), then possibly having filed false police charges (illegal), not to mention the fact that he wanted unprotected sex, meaning that not only his own, but his wife's life meant squat to him. He was willing to risk the woman he married to suffer a long slow death to get off with a prostitute. That's absolutely horrible by anyone's measure..if true.
The fact that the GOP gives that a pass in order to circle the wagons is frightening to any moral person on a level that is beyond belief.

Neill C., Montgomery, Al: Hillary Clinton's "affair" with her staffer Huma Abedin will get on the news right after Fox News breaks the Ann Coulter/Condoleeza Rice tryst story.

... and you probably still buy the Republican FDR/Pearl Harbor fiction.

Hey Neil of Alabama – take care of your republican problem, and condemn the act of this congressman first, then bring Hillary in the picture. Clintons have nothing to do with this. Its your party who run on "Family values" and not democrats. You guys spent 40 million investigating sex affiars while big wigs in your party have engaged in the bathroom sex. Hypocrites!

Sorry but I dont see any one here on the dem side putting down gays. I see them talking about REPUBLICANS and their being pushed out of the closet.

SEX sells, this is proof

Dan.D in NORMAN, OK. May be yall been sniffin to many Nascar fumes.Just try to center your life on football and cow-chips and you should be ok,even if this story is a no-brainer. lol

I wonder if I would get elected and keep office, as a Republican, if I stated in my campaign "I will have gay sex with men in adult theaters, sex clubs and from the internet, and maybe even with my over-18 interns. But, I will still govern honestly and fairly. now you all know...what can you do but accept me?"

It doesn't matter if the third person was gay or straight, the guy was destroying what Republicans base their moral "superiority" on–the intact family. How about Republicans talking more about lowering the divorce rate in America instead of blaming gay people for the decline of marriage? Getting caught with another person of either gender while married should be an embarrassment and cause for moral reflection regardless of party affiliation, but if you espouse a platform that encourages heterosexual monogamy and demonizes homosexual relationships while not addressing the fundamental issues surrounding heterosexual divorce, one is missing an opportunity to sincerely address one of societies ills.

Marilyn, you said "Even if the man is a gay politician, does it really matter? Let the man focus on his job and work for the American people like he said he would do…leave all these people alone!"

*I* say if HE would leave the gays and lesbians alone, I'd be more than happy to leave HIM alone. But since he consistently voted AGAINST gay rights, freedoms, and protections in our laws, if I am to follow your example and speak out in favor of leaving gay people alone to live their lives... I must speak out again him for working to keep our government from doing so And he has less excuse than the heterosexual members of congress that voted as he did – they might have actually believed in what they were voting for, he was voting against his own kind to get power and money. Shameful.

I betcha he is a self-righteous, everyone else is wrong type self-serving all American conservative. America's policticans are sliding down and that is the reason the remainder of the world is losing respect for America...think about how do youy teel one to stand tall, if you are sleepin with pigs and dogs.

*puts on Think-like-a-Republican hat* He's gay, and Republican. And Republicans are against gays in general, and against gays in the military. Therefore, he's against our troops! OMG He's a terrorist! *takes off cap*

Did I get that right Republicans? You guys are really good at trying to spin things that are unfavorable to your party. Why not just come out and say "Yeah, that guy's a dunce"?

Typical republican repsonses. Say one ting and do the opposite and that's is fine. The first excuse for everything is always about a Democrat. Is there ANYTHING you people can do that you actually take resposibility for? Can you not see the hypocracy here. It will never get easier to see or understand. Is Everything you do really Hillory Clinton's fault?

Your ideaology has failed our country so you blame the media. Iraq is a mess so you blame the Iraqi's. You started an unjust illeagal was and it is Hillory clintons's fault for not stopping you. This is why the Republican party is looked at so poorly in this country and by the rest of the world. Your so affraid to admint when you fail that you have lost all credibility and are goin gto fall at the hands of the whimpy, Spineless democrats. They could not beat you without your help. Keep it up and watch your party get flushed.

everyone one knows that when you sneak around and get 'off the clock' nooky, you're taking all and every chance in contracting, lord knows what! i am more interested in having the number of partners they maintain on, oh let's say, a monthly basis – 'cause you know for each 123 sexy time people, there's one to speak up as in this case .. and only because he didn't get his $1K! too funny! hahaha .. I'm about to pee in my red lingerie set

Another case where repression simply leads to a greater degree of perversion.

this gets more hilarious weekly, these better then thou conservative republicans getting caught in deceit and trickery. gentlemen as a gay man, i can tell you that you knew at a younger age that you were gay. you should have been man enough to come out before you married and screwed up a lot of peoples lives. i always thought that there would be alot of republicans in hell with us queers.ha ha ha. this whole country is going to hell between the lying republicans, the theiving t.v. evangalists, and the catholic church. and the coup de gras the twits running the country now.

Now if only if only Anne Coulter would come out of the closet!That would be "real news".I know she really must feel so repressed with all that guilt,anger and self-. rightous hipocricy.Her and Hillary would make a great couple,uniting our country once again.

Joe, from Maryland,

You can thank George Bush for the divisiveness.... remember "You are either with us or against us?" comments? So, our leader taught us to either be with someone or against them.... no forgiving...only when you change the leader will the people change...

He resigned because, unlike a democrat, he will not be able to get re-elected 6 more times..

"Nothing kills me more than these "conservative" lawmakers who are telling me how to live my life"

Posted by Rob – Battleground

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Gee Rob – do tell us all, exactly HOW have Republicans told you how to live your life?

By the way – how does it feel being a mouthpiece? No substance – just howling because someone of the opposite party got into trouble.

Couldn't happen to a nicer political party. I know I shouldn't stereotype all Republicans, they aren't all hypocrites (I hope), but there sure seems to be a pattern here ...

I figured it out long ago that if someone is just too conservative and just too "out there" with his Christian piety and morality, he is either a) a gay living in the shadows; b) messing around on his wife; c) diddling the kiddies; or d) all of the above.

Typical politician...............trying to get something for nothing and crying when caught. Pay the boy!

Wouldn't it be nice if the evangelicals started their own party and left the true republican base.
Posted By BC, The Buckle of the Bible

That would be the best thing that could happen to America. If one religion didn't have it in its head that it's "the one true way", and didn't try to force us all to live by its beliefs, and didn't attempt to dominate our legislation, we could make so many advances. Religious rhetoric has no place in our legal system. It holds us back and makes us look like idiots.

And BTW, there is no "one true" religion. There are many religions. And many of them encourage their members to play well with others. It's shameful that the GOP's religious affiliation looks for reasons to condemn rather than opportunities to open their minds.

When Hillary's affair comes out these same Democratic chest thumpers will be all over saying it is none of our business. She's suppressing the media (the liberal media – probably not too hard to suppress in her case. We'll have to wait for Drudge to break it again since it involves a Democrat) because she's afraid of the blowback.

As a Republican, I support Rudy Giulliani for president. One of the main reasons that I support him is that maybe, we as Republicans, can finally get away from this hypocritical moral values nonsense and focus on the things that are really important. Why are we so obcessed with men who love each other when there are so many men who want to kill each other? Can we focus on intelligence, bridge and infrastructure malfunctions instead of wardrobe malfunctions? Protect us from the Bin Ladens of this world, not the Hugh Hefners. Even if Rudy looses the general election, his leadership as a candidate may be what turns the GOP back to the party that I originally joined. Lower taxes, stronger defense and SMALLER GOVERNMENT!

"I'd rather have to count on the support of Americans who just find that Marriage should be man and woman only to get elected, than to have to count on people who . . . find joy when someone in our military dies"

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Claiming that Democrats find joy in the death of our soldiers is a mindless delusion for anyone who actually could believe that. It is the Democrats that are fighting to bring our soldiers home as soon as possible. It they didn't care about our brave soldiers, the easiest thing to do would be to say "Who cares? Let them stay in Iraq and die".

The group who actually finds joy in soldiers' deaths is not Democrats, but the God-fearing far RIGHT-WING fundamentalist Westboro Baptist Church. They advocate and celebrate death to all our soldiers to punish Americans because there is homosexuality. It is religious zealots who are the loudest supporters of death to our soldiers from both the American and Iraqi sides.

What, no torture? He's not really a Republican unless there was a little consensual waterboarding.

Sounds "fishy" After all the recent "Craig" news, think Rep Curtis would be more cautious. Whatever, happened to hiring a high class escort?

What's most disturbing is the "unprotected" part.

Interesting comments. Republican enthusiasts v. the Democrat enthusiast. Democrats put down Republicans; Republicans put down Democrats. In another ticker CNN has pitted African Americans against White Americans. Whose right; whose wrong? Fight, fight – fight! Speak aloud you all. Cheer on your bullish side of the issue. Segregate and split this country apart more. Simply ridiculous children.

Get off the high horse, democrats. Politicians lie, republican, democrat, inbetween. Stop pretending the democrats are any better. They're all liars, all thieves and we'd all be better off without them. Hypocracy is synonymous with Politician. I see plenty of democrat hypocrits, so lets stop pretending that the republicans have any form of corner on that market.

Come out, come out, whereever you are. American hypocrisy and denial surrounding homosexuality continuing to unfold. He's been lying his ass off to everyone just like the others and although it is painful as hell to his friends and family (because of the lying) hopefully he will find a victory in personal freedom that comes from discovering HONESTY. So you were born with an attraction to the same sex. So what?! Innate characteristics in sexuality is not what defines maturity and character!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nothing kills me more than these "conservative" lawmakers who are telling me how to live my life, yet they do the complete opposite. I am a happily married straight man who firmly believes that if you preach it then live it. Do not throw stones if you live in a glass house. These lawmakers make me sick.

I am no longer surprised by anyone who somes out of the closet. It is an epidemic in the US that people that are gay will not come out and say that they are gay. Then when they get caught they continue to deny the truth. Be who you are and if you have to lie about who you are then you are admitting there is something wrong with who you are.

Who really cares? It's just more conservative "Republican values" & “Republican hypocrisy” I wonder how Fox News, Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity will spin this one from their private jets…

Boy there's a lot of liberal democrats out here slamming Republicans, but they're also slamming gays in the same breath. I find THAT hypocritical! Democrats just want the gay vote. They don't seem to really care about gay human beings. If I were gay, I'd be careful about thinking that Democrats have my back. Heck – I'd be inclined to research ALL of the candidates to see who has consistently defended what I believe in and not just for votes, but as true defenders of the Constitution. Check out Ron Paul.

I wonder when Hillary's affair with her staffer Huma Abedin will be picked up by any of the liberal media. I won't be holding my breath.

James, Your missing the point – It's the Republican Party Platform that lacks critical thinking and your part of the problem. So just take your lumps or work to reform your party's stance regarding "other people's business" .

Posted By John from America : November 1, 2007 2:07 pm

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Ok John, what Republican Platform issue must be reformed?

Gay Marriage? All the leading democrats are against it but it's a Republican problem?

Promoting Families? Is there something inherently wrong with suggesting an intact family (mom and dad) provide the BEST opportunity to raise healthy well-adjusted kids. It's not the ONLY way ... or that divorced families or blended families are bad. Years of research and tons of data suggest the intact-family is the better option.

Lower taxes?
Smaller Government?
Judges that follow the Constitution?

Please do share with us how the fact a Republican State Representative (personally) chose to solicite other men.

Since Democrats have been dealing with numerous finance scandals – how about we point a finger at the DNC Platform and suggest ALL democrats are dishonest and break finance laws?

Sound fair to you?

PS – I'm glad the Wa State Rep decided to resign.

How is it a party that runs on 'conservativism' and 'anti-gay' and 'pro-life' are always getting caught with their pants down? They remind me of the Catholic Priests with their sex abuse scandals - preaching one thing but doing another. I think that's what happens when you really say one thing but do and believe another, when you're really a hyprocrite behind the mask. Maybe the republican party needs to 'lighten up' and stop running a campaign, a party, on lies, secrets and videotapes but on Truth, Justice and the Sexual Way.

HAHA, what a shock...NOT.

I think all these super conservative anti-gay Republicans are all at least a little gay curious! :O

This is a simple issue made to be complicated since the beginning of time. Sexual relations are ment to be private and personal between the persons directly involved. No one makes an issue for single guys or girls who choose to have annonymous sex with whomever whenever. Sex is just sex, and while there can be an emotional and spiritual attachment to that person you were with, that too is a state of mind influenced by your own decisions. Having a self defining character with morals for yourself and others is what regulates the decision to act or not act in these circumstances. When you get married or enter a domestic relationship, you promise yourself to that one significant person for the rest of your life. You do so with the love and devotion seeded within your soul. If you arent ready to settle down, its time to pack your bags and move on, or get a prenuptial agreement. If you are going to act irresponsible due to your own selfishness, your partner has ever right to take you to the cleaners and leave, or work something out. The business of those in a relationship is private, and shouldn't be made available for the dramatic rises and silent pauses we get afterwards. These irresponsible married or domestic partnerships makes everyone else look bad as a whole. Everyone is very capable of being in a gratifying loving relationship without the selfish acts seen. If you are of a specific sexual orientation, get over it, be proud of who you are, because in the end, you are not going to change, and life will be so much better for you in the end. A life of happiness is better than a life in the closet. Don't be fake about who you are. Love yourself first! You can't please everyone. The laws of this country should reflect what everyone already knows. Marriage is one of love and devotion for one persons whom you are with. Happiness shouldn't be excluded from a certain base of people. Equality is the only way, and learning to accept one for the person they are is very important. Everyone knows what the laws are and what exceptable and whats not. This country has more laws about not doing things than not. The next one might be secure that happiness. Live every moment as if it were your last, and try to remain as young in spirit as you choose.

Never ceases to amaze me how 'pubs try to confuse the issue... HEY FOLKS IT'S THE HYPOCRISY THING!!! Last thing the discussion needs is somebody ranting about Monica blue dress, etc, etc.. wrong is wrong. I cant wait til the Texican mafia is chased outta town next year...and it wont be a Texas thumpin', it'll be a New York asskicking! I stopped supporting Republicans after Nixon.. Goldwater would be rolling in his grave seeing the state of affairs of the GOP today, what with our own religious Taliban wanting to get into everybodys personal lives!!

If we took the repressed gay vote from the RNC, John Kerry would be President, Al Gore would get ready to run, Osama would be dead and almost 4000 of our military would be alive.

who cares about some washington state rep. yawn...

Two things bother me: 1) request for unsafe sex; 2) he is endangering his (let's assume) clueless wife's health–physical and mental–by not bein g honest with her. Gay or straight, a person's spouse deserves better treatment/more respect than this.

Let me just say ahead of time that I am a liberal.
However, in my opinion, I don't think this Representitive should resign for not properly representing his supporters. As many readers have suggested, he and several other republican politicians, have consistently hidden and lied about their true sexual preferrence because of fear of rejection from their party and loss of support from their voters. That suggests that perhaps, unfortunately, a large contigency of the voters in their districts are either opposed to homosexual marraiges or homesexual politicians, or perhaps even individuals in general. So while this representative was homosexual himself, his voting record regarding same sex marraiges and rights have been in line with the very people he is representing. For example, if a certain political had hidden personal beliefs regarding marijuana or abortion or whatever, we would not expect him to push legislation in this direction if the very people that voted him into office were against these issues. That is why I feel the representative did not act wrongly in regard to his voting.
However, I do believe he should resign due to the deplorable actions of soliciting unprotected sex, regardless of whether it was male or female. Such irresponsible and highly ILLEGAL actions should not come from a representative of the United States. His actions have disgraced the US government and dragged our country's name through the mud. We cannot accept such actions nor such individuals to be role models for our citizens.

Yeah – another gay Republican sex scandal or another Democratic hetero sex scandal. What's the difference, really? You can find hypocrites in every party, saying one thing and doing another. Sex just happens to sell newspapers.

Bill,Manhattan,I can't wait for your day to come! Start now and get your friends onboard. These regressives need to be put back in the last century where they belong. Don't forget to post your campaign website so we can all help.

Another GOP gay sex scandal! Why am I not suprised?

wouldn't it be so much better to be out and have the freedom to seek out healthy relationships rather than resorting to prostitution?

Homosexual Neo Cons need to go IRAN! When Sharia is implemented in USA, then this will no longer be problem! Allahu Akbar!

The only thing DISGUSTING about this is that he requested UNPROTECTED sex.

this is 2007 don't put you parts in anyone without a latex (or sheepskin to those allergic to latex) covering

Can the republican party say "hypocrite"? these are the same people that came down on Clinton that he couldn't keep in his pants, well maybe so but at least Clinton did it with a woman. We have a President that God talks to him, what a joke this administration is.

Why is everyone so quick to believe a male prostitute? Did he just proffer this story or is it leverage to get out of a hooking bust?

aaaaaaaahahahahahahahaha too bad.

Ho hum.... Just another gay republican.

I DON'T WANT A GAY INDIVIDUAL REPRESENTING MY VIEWS. THE PROBLEM WITH BEING GAY IS THAT THEY DON'T HAVE BABIES. THAT MEANS THAT THEY HAVE TO RECRUIT TO ACQUIRE MORE GAY'S FOR THEIR CAUSE. HOW CAN YOU BE A GAY POLITICIAN AND STILL REPRESENT THE VIEWS OF THE MAJORITY OF THE AMERICAN CULTURE, "WHICH IS NOT GAY". OBVIOUSLY THIS GUY WAS IN THE RECRUITING MOD. THEIR IS NO PLACE IN POLITICS FOR ANYONE THAT WANTS TO REPRESENT THE MAJORITY BY BEING A GAY INDIVIDUAL, EVENTUALLY HE, OR SHE, WILL FALL TO THEIR OWN SET OF RULES AND ATTEMPT TO EMPOWER THEIR OWN CAUSE WHICH IS NOT THE SAME CAUSE OF THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS AT THIS TIME. TRYING TO FORCE CONSTITUENTS TO LIVE A LIFE STYLE THAT THEY FIND REVOLTING IS NOT GOING TO WORK AND WILL ONLY HAMPER THE CAUSE OF THOSE GAYS THAT JUST WANT TO LIVE THEIR LIVES IN PIECE. FRED

Gay marriage was the boogey-man issue of the '04 race. I bet it doesn't come up so much in '08, ya think?

James,

"...50 (no exaggeration) articles on Larry Craig – but not ONE article about the Navy Seal that was awarded the Medal of Honor (a very rare and honorable event)… YOU call that objective reporting??"

I call it good editing, from a ratings perspective. The former (like this story) is titilating, ironic, and humorous. The latter is none of these and nothing that will get attention, and thusly, ratings. That is what the media today is about, not some vast left-wing conspiracy – utterly insane nonsense given how long we had to hear about Bill Clinton's affair.

"If you can't see the agenda – critical thinking has escaped you."

Critical thinking involves looking at issues from many angles, not simply how they apply to the well-worn talking points. If you cannot see the irony of this situation and why that would make it a hot topic, I suggest it is you who ought to reacquaint yourself with the skill.

I consider myself a Republican but don't have an issue with what this guy did. It's a free market society - there are both suppliers and buyers - for everything. I do however have an issue with the Republican evangelisitic approach just about everything - war, abortion, morals, etc. - in fact, next year I will probably vote Democratic if and only if I can identity a candidate that will not take my guns and is not named Hillary.

I find all this fascinating!

People in their 20's, like myself, will be the political power brokers in the years to come. Our cohort is very accepting to gay lifestyles, etc. So, when "we" are making the laws, most of the current decision makers will be retired or in nursing homes.

Careful, or the baby boomer population will be denied their nursing home/retirement benefits when "we" take over!

I suggest that these moralizing hypocrites go to Bankok. Makes me think how many of themhave gone there on "government" business on the taxpayers dime.
Its alsmost as bad as Bush and his corrupt FOR PROFIT War.

I'm reminded of a famous quote by Rodney King (remember him...got beat up by the LAPD several years ago?)

"Can't we all just get along?" I don't see this as a Republican OR Democratic problem. No, it's more of a political problem that has been exasperated by the Right. Personally, I think we should hunt down these types, flush them out of their motel rooms and public restrooms, and make them admit that they are sick, perverted people who cannot control their behavior. That will teach them a lesson. WE all have more to worry about such as why the best college football team on the planet is now ranked #6 in the BCS. GO Sooners, You're the real Champs!!!!

Another Republican hypocrite. Big surprise.

The usual defenders of all things conservative have already come out and blamed this on the "liberal media" or are calling liberals hypocrites for jumping on this.

And as usual, the real hypocrisy escapes their insight. The hypocrisy (as already pointed out wonderfully by a few others) that it is REPUBLICANS that preach morals and get caught doing this crap. Most Democrats think the bedroom should be separate from the job qualifications of an individual.

Where's Ryan from IND with is "all Democrats hate America and should be hung" nonsense? Just a matter of time. Doesn't the ignorance and contradictions make everyone here sick?

Reps are supposed to make and protect the laws of the United States not break them.. At least he had the good sense to resign unlike our ding bat Rep Larry Craig.

Just to correct some misconceptions out there .. it is not hypocritical to vote against gay issues and be a gay unless your constituency would be pro on those issues .. we have way too many legislators who are a law unto themselves and ignore their constituent's wishes in their voting .. elected officials are supposed to "represent" not further their own personal agendas

Wow. I did not know this: All not-outed Gays in office are Republicans? Speaker Pelosi and Senators Boxer and Feinstein are all from the predominately Democrat San Francisco Bay Area. I say do not waste one more minute representing the People of the United States. Instead, let's direct all resourses to "outing" all GOP hypocrites. Heck Iraq, oil prices, health care, immigration, climate change, etc. can wait until this scourge is resolved once and for all. I know I will sleep better.

Hats off to the police, finding the truth is never easy when dealing with a gay and a prostitute..

It seems that I no longer need do dislike Republicans. (Although as a rule I still do) With their large scale support of anti-gay laws and ballot propositions all over the country it appears Republicans are self-loathing enough on their own.

James, Your missing the point – It's the Republican Party Platform that lacks critical thinking and your part of the problem. So just take your lumps or work to reform your party's stance regarding "other people's business" .

This doesn't surprise me; and should make people question why these outted congressman are so homophobic to begin with, I think they are just trying to cover up their blatant homosexuality. There is nothing wrong with being gay or anything, but making people think you are against it and are one is hypocritical.

The republican party has been hijacked by the far right evangelicals who are cannot see both sides of any issue because their faith does not permit it. You cannot open a mind when it does not think for itself, and as long as the evangelicals keep spouting their double talk things like this will continue to be news.

Wouldn't it be nice if the evangelicals started their own party and left the true republican base. They sure wouldn't have the power they have now, and this country might get back to a middle ground where things can actually get accomplished and we can move forward.

Wow is this a news item or a piece from the editorial page? If anybody wonders why people think CNN has a liberal bias I don't think you have to look much further than the writer's completely undisguised glee....

Mary: Do you eat milk and meat together? Do you wear more than one type of fabric at the same time? If you answer yes to either one, you're breaking biblical law, too - laws that appear in the same section of the bible as the law against "a man lying with another man as with a woman"... Until you obey all biblical law, don't complain about others who are selective...

I’d rather have to count on the support of Americans who just find that Marriage should be man and woman only to get elected, than to have to count on people who think the US government was behind 9/11, Hezbollah is not a terrorist organization, side with communist workers party, and find joy when someone in our military dies or we have a terrorist attack to get elected.

Yeah, find me a republican who has said any comments toward gays that comes close to the homophobic hate from libs against republicans who are gay.

Republicans want to not allow gays to get married but Democrats don't want to allow gays the right to vote for whoever they want, really, which is worse?

Could the GOP be any more damaging to the gay community?
Not only do they work tirelessly to block legislation that would give homosexual couples more equal rights under the law, but they also engage in perverse clandestine acts that send the message to the rest of the country that to be gay is to be a closeted manipulative liar. Homosexual relationships are every bit as fulfilling and mutually love filled as heterosexual ones. This sort of conduct is the worst sort of smear.

Another republican hypocrite. What a surprise.

Liberal democrats once again are stating that if you want to be gay in America YOU HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO VOTE DEMOCRAT. Gay Americans are now in good company with other Americans who don't have the right to choice their own ideology.

It is funny to hear libs preach about how they are for gay rights, then type homophobic remarks like here and all over the web that would make Fred Phelps blush.

I support gays getting married but I also support gays being able to vote any way they want, therefore I have no choice but to vote against Democrats.

How does homosexuality and/or heterosexuality affect the way a person makes decisions?
Heterosexual or homosexual ~ decisions are made the same.
I have to agree that the manner in which he tried to correct the criminal aspect was wrong.
Guys and gals ~ use discretion if you don't want anyone to know about your closet lifestyle.
Everyone has a skeleton(s) in their closet.

I LOVE the rationalizing going on here.

For years, the GOP and the Religious Right have claimed the moral high ground and barely blushed when discussing and investigating the bedroom habits of citizens in their constituencies.

Unfortunately, pride goeth before the fall. He who is without sin should cast the first stone. All these alleged Christians forgot main points of the Bible in their quest for a permanent conservative majority.

They fought dirty, swiftboating Democrats right, left and center – but now listen to them squeal like pigs when caught repeatedly with their pants down.

NOW they want to claim its private business. NOW they want focus on the job he does, not his character.

Sorry, but NO. YOU guys started this mess, now you must deal with the consequences. Maybe it will make you think twice before judging others and pulling your dirty tricks on the opposition.

But I highly doubt it. That would take a level of insight you simply do not possess.

Ok.. So we're going to see days of coverage of this garbage on all the media outlets... Let's cut to the chase here. We need a new cable channel for round-the-clock coverage of Conservative Gays Who Are Outted. Might I suggest the CGWO network? Hey cable industry... What do you think? If you did this, CNN could focus on real news.

Not again!

This trend is disturbing.

I mean being continually associated with Conservatives and Republicans is not good for the Gay Community's image.

Why does the Republican party attract so many closeted homosexuals? Because the GOP forces them to remain in the closet, they just can't leave people's personal lives alone!

I voted teal last spring. (green and blue) Unless Richard Curtis has gone on record with attempting to deprive the public of civil rights, who cares? Bring me up to speed, please – if Richard Curtis has attempted to deprive the public of civil rights!

Perhaps any other closet gays should openly support the Democrats...to allay any suspicion about their sexuality?

The spokane prosecutor wants to charge the guy with extortion? What about charging Curtis with committing a "crime against nature". Now anyone with half a brain knows you don't offer one thousand dollars to have an unprotected oral sex with another male. But offering one thousand dollars is most likely what Curtis felt he needed to intice this young guy into letting him do the other kind of gay sex. But since Curtis is a politician he probably won't be charged with anything.

I love it. THE GOP IS GAY. Here is a political party that has gone after the Gay communitie so much and have mis-treated them to the point of making them look sub-human and now we find out that the GOP is More Gay then ever....LOL.....This makes me wonder if the GOP is Taliban to. I wonder how many Taliban supporters the GOP has or if thier not in bed with Osoma creatign this stuff up.....Ummmm.....

Gay Taliban Republican......LOL

heh, maybe this state representative should call up Obama... he knows some minister who used to have these same type urges and he claims that God saved him from ever doing this.... perhaps he can help guide him.....and Obama can use it to show what a good leader he is...bringing together all kinds of people to make the world better..... heheheheheh

WAKE UP AMERICA!

If we are to ever get our country back on track as the most advanced and enlightened model of Democracy, we need to stop voting for the GOP.

While the Democrats are not perfect (far from it!), we know that they are the only party with the ability to change the direction of our country's failed Right Wing Policies.

The Hypocrisy must end NOW.

Stop the campaign against Gay Americans and their right to marry the man or woman that they love.

So many other countries have moved past this hateful rhetoric and the sky hasn't fallen on them.

Please reach out to the Gay people you know and tell them you are sorry for the pain and suffering the Republicans have caused them and their families.

Please reach out to your closeted friends and tell them it's OK to come out and be honest about themselves.

There are millions of LGBT role models who lead incredibly successful lives while contributing to our remarkable American society.

Tom Dedham, Mass: Come out of the closet.

As as WIFE – I am disgusted and I don't care what sex either person is, but having unprotected sex with a prostitute, on the sly, that should be a CRIME.

Today, why anyone would take this risk and then bring it into their own home, shame on them and this person has demonstrated a lack of moral character that goes well beyond any question of is he gay or not. Who cares? He had unprotected sex with a sex worker and exposed the people in his life that he is supposed to protect, to a DEATH SENTANCE.

I don't care what your political affilication, but are you so clueless that you don't see what is happening all over the world with AIDS? Heterosexual men having unprotected sex with prostitutes and then bringing it home to their wives and children is leaving millions of children orphaned all over the world.

So if you are so stupid, so completely lacking in morale judgement that you would do this to your own family – YEAH get the heck out of congress and I hope your wife divorces you and takes you for a lot of money.

It's not news that another Republican with an anti-gay voting history is caught soliciting gay sex.

It's news that this time, the guy had the guts to step down from office, at least partly out of concern for his family.

Kudos for the latter, if not the former.

It ain't the sex but the hypocrasy that's the problem with the Republican party.

Hey, Russ from Columbia-you are so ignorant to think that just because Giuliani supports same-sex marriage he must be gay. Your thinking is passe and convoluted. Read a book.

To James in AZ, Go back and check the archives. CNN did run a story about the navy seal who was awarded the medal of honor. Get the facts straight before you start ranting.

James from Phoenix –

Here's the link to the article about Lt. Murphy being awarded the Medal of Honor, since you claim CNN didn't report on it. http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/22/murphy.medal.of.honor/index.html?iref=newssearch
Get your facts straight, focus on the laws broken here (soliciting sex) and stop blaming the media for digging the whole that the Republican party has dug for themselves. Thanks!!

James in Phoenix,

Just FYI,

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/22/murphy.medal.of.honor/index.html

Is the story on the SEAL awarded the MOH. It was the main front page story the day it was awarded, I read it then. Please stop relying on nobody checking your (false) assertions.

Do you think it's a sign of intelligence to judge an entire political party based on a few hypocritical closeted homosexuals? That would be like judging the entire Democratic party on Ted Kennedy's "drowning" incident and Bill Clinton's sex scandal. Ridiculous! The media just pulls out the scandalous stuff.

Pretty much what happened in the Bible in Genesis 38:

http://net.bible.org/bible.php?book=Gen&chapter=38#n55

Mary says, "What is going on in America? Seriously, why are there so many homosexuals in today's society? It's not right, read the bible. It's funny how people believe some of the laws of the bible, i.e. do not steal, commit murder, etc., but others are completely dismissed."

Well Mary, if you are a Christian you follow the New Testament which states that we have a NEW covenant with God (the old covenant being the 10 commandments) which is to love others as Jesus loved us. When you think about it that rule applies to all of the 10 commantments, i.e. If you love others you wouldn't steal from them or murder them etc. And I don't know anywhere in the bible it says jesus loved everybody... except homosexuals.

TERRY– your right. however he is married w/ children & shouldn't be cheating. whether w/ a man or woman.

for those of you who question the reason this story posted on cnn.. please see all of the coverage bill clinton received on monica.
sex draws interest people. especially when it comes from hypocritical republicans. and as a supporter of gay marriage rights, let me say this:
Na na na na na.

The Republican Party is so HYPOCRITICAL! They PREACH morality yet they PRACTICE immorality. This particular individual is just one of many Republican lawmakers whose involved in immoral behaviour. If this is what we call LEADERSHIP in this country, then this country is in TROUBLE!

The story about the mayor of Atlantic city was on the front page of the CNN web site for several days. But your knee-jerk Republican response of replying to every story about Republican corruption with cries of liberal media bias is much appreciated.

Posted By Jack, Syracuse, NY : November 1, 2007 12:16 pm

The schools in NY still don't teach reading is fundamental I see Jack.

My point was that it may have been shown as a story briefly, but it NEVER made it to the TICKER for us to discuss.

Neither story was on the TICKER for us to discuss.

The ticker that you are blogging on right now.

I'll write slowly for you geniuses, the guy is a d-bag and HE ALONE deserves all the heat he gets, I agree, but you can't lump a whole group together because of the actions of a few.

I could say that you all believe 9-11 was an inside job, because SOME of you do.

To also use your rational, the New Jersey stories should also have been HUGE stories as didn't YOUR ENTIRE PARTY FROM THE TOP DOWN all run on cleaning up CORRUPTION?

Sing with me sheep, can I get me a "HYPOCRITE"?

Both parties have dirtbags, but only one party admits it.

Why does anyone even care, outside of his constituency?
I can't even believe that I am wasting time commenting on this NON-story....

ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz.....

What you see here are politicians playing to thier base. You can't get elected in a state like Idaho if you're openly gay or if you support gay rights. A closeted gay Republican voting against gay marriage is not all that different than a wealthy Democrat voting to raise taxes on the rich. Think about the times you heard an office holder talk about cracking down on drugs and alcohol, then finding out that they, themselves, had a problem. It's no different than in our own lives. Sometimes you have to separate yourself from your job and be, in public, something very different than what you are in private. It's called survival.

ALWAYS THOUGHT REPUBLICANS ARE GAY.DON'T MEAN HAHA THEY ARE ALL COMING OUT OF THE CLOSET.

I find it funny that people are shocked.

This society has placed sexual behavior in legislator's hands forever.

What do you expect. Just like religious holy rollers who are pedophiles.

The people obsessed with grown-ups behavior are usually the ones that are committing these so-called atrocities.

Grow-up and let us focus on real issues. Like ending this stupid war and helping people in need not sexually active adults.

Family values should be taught at home not legislated.

That way people will not be surprised when the individual does as they say not as they do.

To Tom in Dedham, Mass., you are hung up on being a Republican.
Both parties are sick and corrupt not just yours. We have a government out of control! It's time to stop being a Republican or Democrat but being an American.
Clean out all the heavy hitters(Republican & Democrat)and get rid of the team sports mentality and do what is in the best interest of America instead of either political party.

That's our "family values" party for you!

ahh, yet ANOTHER "family-friendly" Republican. the (silly) parade never seems to end...

From the party that promotes homophobia rather than diplomacy - give me a break. Why don't they all just get honest and come on out of that hot crowded closet?

I think it's funny that a bunch of people are saying that he shouldn't have to step down because he's gay. That's not the reason he should have to step down. The reason he should have to step down is that he speaks out against gays, then goes and solicits gay sex (I thought prostitution was illegal, but maybe not), and then won't even pony up the dough. I don't remember all of the republicans saying telling Clinton to stay after his sex scandal, which he didn't pay for, and didn't go against any of his political values.

"There is no reason for this man to resign. Men's sexual fantasies are programmed into them while they are teenagers, and they don't have much choice about what kinds of sex-play they desire."

Really!?!?! Are you Serious?!?!?! I dont know man, I'm pretty sure my fantasies were exactly what i wanted them to be. Even if they were programmed into me as a teenager I doubt that gay sex would be "programmed" into me. I disagree with the statement that they are programmed into you anyways. What I can't figure out is why have a wife and kids if you are gay. are you bi-sexual and scared to tell people? How can somebody hide something like that from their wife and kids and still consider themselves to be a respectable person...oh wait, I forgot we are talking about politicians.

Conservative Republican is Greek for
Self-Hating Gay A.S.S. Closet Cases!

It is so pathetic to see the Reich-Wing Nutjobs on here trying to compare a dirty, bribe-taking Atlantic City Mayor with another Closeted and Gay State Senator who fought for anti-gay laws and rallied his conservative base to pass laws that would hurt gay people and their families.

To read his resignation was quite shocking and ironic. He said his actions have 'hurt his family' and he'wants to prevent any further harm to his loved ones'...What about all the Gay people and families he has worked so hard to discriminate against??

Why can't all these Self-Hating "Conservative" Republicans stop trying to get elected and re-elected by hurting their fellow Americans just because they happen to be 'different' than their White undereducated base?

Gay Schmay! Who cares? These are the things we should be concerned about:
1. He is married and asked someone for UNPROTECTED SEX, risking his wife's life and health. 2. He SOLICITED SEX FOR MONEY which is illegal 3. He lied and lied and lied....as we see...to his wife, to the sexual partner, to the police...so, he's a LIAR 4. He's a HYPOCRITE. What makes people like this feel they should keep their jobs that WE pay them to do when they display behavior that would keep them from being hired by a fast food restaurant?

Voters have no way of knowing what a politicians sexual preference may be. I'm sure there are a lot more closet politicians, democrats as well as republicans. But I'll bet when they vote for gay or lesbian rights it's always against and that's one of the sad things about their hypocrisy. Politicians all need a mental evaluation before they speak on moral issues and human rights.

CNN deleted my earlier comment. I have to reword it:

CNN has to give this on a front blog. As republican has fought earlier elections on the basis that their party is a "Family Value" and follow strict ethical standards. All the time they bring Clinton-Monica scandal, but don't talk about the Bush lies for the scandalous war and so many sex scandals that are happening under their "religious" party. All they can do is to create "terror" to scare people and blame Hillary on everything to beg the votes.

It's funny to see how much liberals really DO care about people's sex lives when they are Republicans. These "gay republican" stories are dripping with hypocrisy.

I wonder what the 'Log Cabin' Club has to say about this. At the very least, they should be happy about the groundswell in their membership...

And who says that homosexuality is perfectly just fine????? The liberal left. So who is piling on this man?? The liberal left as well. Nice thing this practice. It surely couldn't be a learned thing. After all, this man is only just barely out of his teens. Must be genetic because he has been this way all of his life? Tragic.

Richard Curtis has to live his life in hiding and shame because of people like... hmmm... oh yeah, Richard Curtis.

Why don't we stop fighting over all this stupid crap and fight THE REAL enemy.....CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE.

So, because someone is not moral, they cannot espouse moral values. Since NOBODY is 100% moral, that means we will be giving visitation rights to cats. Gawd I loooove my cat.

The silly thing is that the people who have no compassion for this poor fella are the people who claim to be compassionate.

ONLY REALLY STUPID PEOPLE WOULD JUDGE AN ENTIRE POLITICAL PARTY BASED ON A FEW CLOSETED HOMOSEXUALS! This hypocrisy is on both sides of the fence, people! The media just likes to draw on the scandelous stuff. GROW UP!

"When CNN decides to run almost 50 (no exaggeration) articles on Larry Craig – but not ONE article about the Navy Seal that was awarded the Medal of Honor (a very rare and honorable event)… YOU call that objective reporting??"
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If there is ANYONE who actually believes that CNN did not cover the story about the Medal of Honor for the Navy SEAL, they can go to: http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/22/murphy.medal.of.honor/index.html

"YOU call that objective reporting??"

"critical thinking has escaped you."

Life is so short. The only sadness to me in this story is that he has lied to his family; giving his wife no choice in whether she wants to be involved with a bi/gay man. This makes him selfish as well. It has nothing to do with your political party, he may be against domestic partners but enjoy gay sex, believe it or not there are Dems who feel this way. We all have a right to our beliefs, and as Christ said, 'Who among us is without sin, cast the first stone.' I am not even a Christian person, but believe none of us are perfect. Sadly lying is ugly no matter what the situation, as it hurts innocent people.

It would have been easier for the republican to vote in favor of gay marriage,i bet everyone of them would have been married by now

I think this is the kind of behavior that needs to be exposed, especially when you hide behind your fancy titles and deny other people the very freedom you yourself want...the right to love and screw whoever you desire! I could care less who the senator decides to sleep with that is not the problem, it becomes a problem when people selfishly impose the pain and sorrow on their families!!! What about his wife and children?? Did they deserve to be put through this because he wanted to engage in his unburning desire for gay sex? No they did not!! If gay sex is what you want, then fine, but at least have the common decency to allow your family to hear the information from you and proceed with their healing process as oppose to having to hear it in the news and only then do you say your family has suffered enough!!! You are right they have suffered enough, but the sad part is that they are suffering at the hands of the man that essential was supposed to protect them! What a coward!!!!

Bottom line is he is a liar and a hypocrite. He is a public official and has permitted himself to be place in a situation of illreput regardless of whether the accusations are true or not. I am more in line with believing the basic allegations.

Do I care if he is gay, bi , hetro or something esle all together, heck no. But he is a hypocrite, a liar, next he shall be having a revolation from god saying all is forgiven and that he has found faith and is repentant. Who cares.

Would I want this individual representing me, heck no. I would rather be represented by a openly sexually active, what ever person who at least live his life in the open and was truthful as to who he was and what he believed.

I think most people are missing the point. The fact that these Republicans are gay is not the sole issue. The issue is being gay and then voting against gay rights. That is really pathetic and they should resign for their hypocrisy.

How dare the Republican party attempt to legislate morals and family values in light of these ongoing Same-Sex scandals. The entire party should be ashamed for limiting the marital rights of tax-paying citizens in this country, while they continually lie to the public and their constituency about their own sexual orientation.

What is going on in America? Seriously, why are there so many homosexuals in today's society? It's not right, read the bible. It's funny how people believe some of the laws of the bible, i.e. do not steal, commit murder, etc., but others are completely dismissed. The devil is truly working his power over America and people will not realize until they die and wake up in hell.

Maybe when he said he wasn't "gay," he meant happy. Seriously, I just love the Republicans' "family values"! What a bunch of liars!

Oh... by the way CNN... do you happen to know what brand of women's lingerie was involved??? Do tell.

What is hypocritical in this situation is that the Republican themselves have made it difficult for gay public figure, outside those in entertainment, to live their lives. What goes on between consenting adults shouldn’t be the issue. I feel sorry for anyone who feels they have to live their life in a closet of any kind. And even sorrier for those who join the anti-gay team to prove they aren’t gay. Then again people become Republicans for a lot of reasons and other Republicans need to understand that. But of course I have no brains as I am a Democrat.

The whole point of this..is republicans are hypocrites...voting one way (to diminish others' rights) then doing worse behavior behind closed doors.

SHAME ON REPUBLICANS!

And dont' get me started on the "liberal media." The same time Norman Hsu's contributions to Hillary were made public, Mitt Romney's own STAFF campaign co-chair member was indicted TWENTY-THREE TIMES involving millions of dollars; that didnt' get a blip on the radar.

Are we possibly missing the boat when it comes to sexuality? Part of me feels that we're doing human beings a disservice by trying to lump everyone into little catagores like gay, straight etc..etc... I mean isn't it possible for a man to prefer the company of and a life with a woman yet occassionally desire sex with a man. And isn't it possible for a woman to prefer the company and companionship of a woman, yet desire sexual relations with a man, from time to time? I don't know... I live my life as a gay female, yet I prefer to have sex with a man, once in awhile, and really don't have that much of an interest in having sex with women. Sexuality seems fluid to me.

Many of you bash the Republican Party for hypocrisy. That's not really fair. While there are hypocrites in the party, at least the Party takes a stand on moral issues, while the anything-goes Democrats stand for little to nothing of a moral interest.

This post doesn't even mention Glen Murphy, young republican leader in Indiana..caught performing fellatio on a sleeping male.

Doesn't mention Ted haggard..a guy who had Bush's ear once a week..smoking pole, and crystal meth.

Doesn't mention Jeff Gannon...the gay hooker, using a fake name, and gained access to GWB during news conferences, and spent 7 nights in the White House...on record.

I can hear all the religious right Republicans now: "It's that Bill Clinton. That's it. It's that Bill Clinton's fault!"

Hahahahahahaha ... too funny!

I think those who are so casually slinging out the "hypocrite" tag need to ask themselves if they truly want politicians to vote on what they personally believe. That sounds a bit tyrannical to me. I would prefer they vote based on what their constituents desire. A representative should represent. This is an issue that the nation is evenly divided on. You can keep all the name-calling coming (hypocrites, gay haters, small-minded) but until you are willing to acknowledge that there is a legitimate debate to be had we will never move forward.

Just how many self-loathing, law-breaking homosexuals are members of the Republican Party? This idiot needs to resign. I am so glad I've never voted for a Republican!

Leave it to CNN to put a low level political scandal on their front page. The Clinton News Network wouldn't do it to a Democrat. As for Republicans, we throw our bad apples out of office. The Democrats make them committee chairs.

To start with I am a political independent. Who this guys sleeps with man or women is none of my business nor yours.

The hypocrisy among self identified Democrats is too much. When Bill Clinton was in office and he slept with a slew of women, Dems claimed Bill's private life was none of our business. I agree totally. But now when accusations are thrown at Repubs, the Dems are pounching. Also is the Dems believe in equality and gay rights. What difference does it matter if he slept with a man or a woman.

The Repubs also are a*holes. When one of their own admits to sleeping with a hooker. There are no repercussions. The Dems don' jump on it. The media barely reports it. But when Senator Craig taps his foot in a bathroom stall, perhaps indicating he is looking for gay sex (I say perhaps because he wasn't convicted of it, only of disorderly conduct)everyone is all over him.

If this story is true, the little punk kid should get the shots. He steals Curtis's wallet and tries to blackmail him.

You are taking this republican thing too seriously.
God's opinion is the only thing that matters.
Who are we to say that sex between two "consenting adults" is wrong. Christians believe that sex before marraige is wrong... What is so bad about homosexuality... I am not condoning or condeming homosexuality because in the end we don't have to answer to the church.
If you don't believe in God then all that matters is what you personally think.
That is why non-believers think we condem their actions.
They can't understand that it is not the Christians saying it is wrong but their belief in what God thinks.
Live and let live. Don't argue; discuss, as much as you can.
I believe we are all on the same team...
Protect those that can't help themselves and make it as fair as possible for everyone else...

UNPROTECTED SEX is the real story..engaging in anonymous sex in bathroom stalls, parks with no talking or even any names known!... the quickie is extremely unhealthy behavior, irresponsible, dangerous, and possibly criminally liable for spreading diseases from staph to hiv and everything inbetween, then that person goes back to the wife ...This behavior pattern can change someone else's life forever, forget a political carreer. There are so many myths about what "safe sex" is or isnt. NONE of this type is safe or even is remotely what it means to "be gay, in love, to share lives...". The belief system in these types of individuals are severly warped, and then the fundamental denial is astonishing. anonymous sex spreads disease. where's dateline?!

Just another compassionate conservative christian pro-life republican neocon nutjob
fading into history.

Seven years of hypocrisy....

James –

Yes, it's CNN's fault another Republican legislator got caught paying for gay sex.

Don't address the issue – Keep obscuring the facts by pointing at phantom boogeymen like the "liberal" media. That's what you do best.

Posted By Matt, Chicago : November 1, 2007 12:15 pm

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Matt,

When CNN decides to run almost 50 (no exaggeration) articles on Larry Craig – but not ONE article about the Navy Seal that was awarded the Medal of Honor (a very rare and honorable event)... YOU call that objective reporting??

This guy (Richard Curtis) is a political pimple – a Washington State Representative, WOW. But CNN feels it deserves the #1 spot on the Blog and front page of their Headline News *BECAUSE* it's a republican – involving sex.

If you can't see the agenda – critical thinking has escaped you.

This issue is not about being gay, its about these Republicans constantly LYING and being HYPOCRITES, but acting like they are so MORAL. What else can you expect from the GOP?

When a republican is caught in a sex or money scandal, these right wingers try to divert the topic bringing Clinton into the discussion. These hypocrites are so obsessed about Hillary that instead of condemning their "Family Values" congressmen, they try to spin the main issue. Americans are not going to fall into this Rove tactic this time. These hypocrites can only beg their votes on "terror". All other avenues are closed.

so he gay, so what.

so he's a liar. that's the issue.

"to thine ownself be true"

It saddens me that any lawmaker would vote against providing some Americans the freedoms and liberties other Americans enjoy. Protection under the law and other basic freedoms should not be granted based on one's moral, religious, or family values. People are people and should be treated equally. This is why we shouldn't legislate on the basis of religion, but on the basis of the needs of the people. We have to stop separating people based on their life choices and just treat people like people.

Rep. Curtis like anyone deserves to be presumed innocent until PROVEN guilty. Way too often it's assumed someone is guilty first. That plays into political mudslinging and personal attacks, something we don't need and which indicates the immature level of political discourse in
the US. As for hypocrisy, there's enough of that on both sides of the political spectrum.

GOP = PARTY OF MORAL VALUES

Remember that fact when you go to vote!

I say, so what! Who cares! This whole "gay" "lesbian" thing is a fact of life. We've all come around, somewhat reluctantly, to accepting it, so what's one more? Even if the man is a gay politician, does it really matter? Let the man focus on his job and work for the American people like he said he would do...leave all these people alone! Find something a little more constructive, and less destructive, to do with your lives.

Re: "Im (sic) taking Hillarys' (sic) stance 'this is a vast left wing consipracy', seriously who is this guy, and why all of a sudden do the tolerant left all of a suddent (sic) develope (sic) a case of homophobia (sic)"

This guy is a Republican who used people's discomfort about gay people to win favor from voters while, at the same time, having sex with other men. Stories about homophobia-encouraging Republicans who are secretly gay themselves SHOULD be reported because they show what a hypocritical, disingenuous bunch the Republicans are.

First of all, prostitution is illegal. Any member of congress breaking any law should be news, end of story. Secondly, the man asked for unprotected sex. Isn't that extremely irresponsible. Forget that he has a wife and children. He was willingly open to putting himself at risk for HIV or other STDs! Aren't we as a country trying to fight these diseases, not contribute to their spread?
I don't care what he was wearing or where he was, but unsafe sex with strangers and prostitution are not things I believe responsible congressmen should be doing.
My sympathy goes to his wife and children.

So another Rep is outted – are we really surprised? What is funny is that many people who vehemently do things to make a gay person's life as miserable as possible are often doing so to hid their own problems with homosexuality.
What isn't funny is that the US society has demonized homosexuality so much that people like this feel they have to get married & have kids & those spouses & kids are the ones who are truly hurt for no good reason other than society's pressures.
We should be ashamed to further societal standards like those

These poor, family-minded Republicans. Clearly, they're only being targeted because they're self-hating hypocrites.

I daresay that most Republican politicians who are so adamantly opposed to gay rights, etc. have gay aides working for them and know it. They have gay friends whom they love. They have gay family members that they love. In short, they are privately more accepting of gay rights than they are in public and thus, where it counts: in their voting. This is because they have to appeal to their base to get reelected and this base is largely conservative Christian. Soooo, the hypocrisy does not end in the bedroom. I wish that straight Republican politicnas who are really more supportive of gay rights than they appear to be in their votes would come out of the closet with their true beliefs. They are allowing a small but dedicated and highly organized tiny minority have too much influence over them.

Instead of "red state/blue state", we'll have to start referring to the division between blue states and pink states.

Not sure if everyone also saw the article yesterday about 20 men being arrested in Upstate NY as part of a bathroom sex sting. Nineteen are married, one was a priest. None identified as gay.

All of this has everything and nothing to do with the Gay community. All of these men are, in fact, gay, which should be obvious to everyone.

But they have nothing at all to do with those of us comfortable with who we are, in loving, stable, committed relationships, and who would never think of doing the nasty in some of the nastiest places on earth.

We're too busy, you know, grocery shopping and vegging on the couch, like everybody else.

The inevitable GOP backlash against their "immorality" is only a continuation of conservatives' disgusting history of homophobia. What needs a backlash is their antiquated, ignorant policy making which, thankfully, is beginning to fall by the wayside.

We don't want the right to have sex in public; but I do want to marry my boyfriend.

Giuliani perhaps is the only republican who actively marches in gay rights parades and supports same sex marriages. Just curious when he'll come out of the closet and be truthful of his orientations.

Clearly it is understandable why he would need to pay for sex. However, if I am not mistaken isn't prostitution illegal in Washington? So the issue here besides the fact Curtis is a hypocrite, is he broke the law. The GOP die-hards will spin this as the liberal media at work again but those of us that are rational thinkers realize a lawmaker should perhaps obey the law.

I could care less about who this guy sleeps with but until these losers quit voting against gay rights, the media needs to make noise to show the world how hypocritical they are!!!!

It's so sad that these gentleman can't be honest with themselves let alone their families and the constiuency they've duped.

To the 'voter' in GA who ask if it's his right to marry his mother or his dog, dude I doubt even the dog would want to lay down next to someone who would even ask such a stupid question. To the religous right and other similar wack jobs, keep up the good work pushing your party into the dark ages. I guess Represenative Curtis forgot to wear his WWJD bracelet. Watching the GOP fall is great entertainment.

The story about the mayor of Atlantic city was on the front page of the CNN web site for several days. But your knee-jerk Republican response of replying to every story about Republican corruption with cries of liberal media bias is much appreciated.

James –

Yes, it's CNN's fault another Republican legislator got caught paying for gay sex.

Don't address the issue – Keep obscuring the facts by pointing at phantom boogeymen like the "liberal" media. That's what you do best.

I think its funny to hear people say: "who cares, he has the right to be gay if he wants too" or "if it happens behind closed doors its none of our business." Though, both are very true, this isn't simply a case of a man deciding to feed his homosexual inhibitions; this is about a man who has continuously sided with his party in its anti-homosexual legislation while he himself is a homosexual.

Though I agree what he does behind close doors is his business, it becomes a matter of public interest when he is not only going against the morals that his party has set up and his constituents expect of him; he is also PAYING people for sex. That in its own is a direct violation of our laws. Lets not forget the facts here.

The hypocrisy of the republican party knows no bounds. These GOPs have mastered at the art of deception, whether its family valve, sexual morality or personal ethics. These guys are pure prevaricators, do as they say and not as they do.
Look at the Cheneys with their lesbian daughter telling others about lifestyle choices and the dry drunk Bush and the murderous Laura. Hypocrites galore.

Talk about not caring about women, children or the poor. This guy offered the kid a thousand to have unprotected sex thereby endangering the impoverished youth, his own wife and putting his children at risk of losing both their parents. Not to mention the risk of an added burden to our healthcare system through irresponsible behavior.

This is what happens when you people keep electing CAREER politicans

That he may or may not be gay is irrelevant- the fact that he illegally solicited for sex IS relevant. The first is his own dang business- the second shows a complete disregard for the laws I assume he vowed to uphold when elected to government office. Not nice to break the law while accepting a government paycheck. Heck- even those on Social Security get their alotments cancelled when they commit a crime. (or at least, when they are caught).

Here you go fact checker, the Columbian operates out of Vancouver, Washington, not Spokane. Geographicaly speaking, this is because the Columbia river goes through Vancouver and not Spokane.

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They claim to be the moral majority, what a joke!!

How about this?

http://tech.msn.com/products/articlepcw.aspx?cp-documentid=5586501

Stuff like this is going to have to cause Republicans to be depressed and unenthusiastic in 2008.
Just look at today's FLORIDA poll that was just released that has Clinton beating all Republicans.

LOL ... CNN!!

I bet you guys are breathing a sigh of relief. Here it looked like you MIGHT have to report on the ground-swell of concern about Hillary and her double talk.

No – NOW you can make the front page: Republican Sex Scandal.

WHEW! That was close.

To Tom Dedham, don't confuse yourself. Richard has it exactly right. It's not a matter of sexual preference or political affiliation, but rather, it's the GOP hypocrisy that is so disgusting, when all these morally righteous GOP would come out, touting families and marriage between a man and a women and openly attack gay/lesbian.

As Richard from WPB wrote:
The reason that these cases of homosexuality by Republicans becomes an ongoing news story is not the sexual preference, but the unending hypocrisy. If Republicans didn't make such big issues out of condemning homosexuals and praising their own supposed "family values", the exposure of their lack of true belief in what they were preaching would not be so newsworthy. If many of them were honest about themselves and humanity this wouldn't be an issue.

Bravo. I couldn't care less about this guy or who he sleeps with. What I do care about is the platform on which Republicans run – morally superior, more religious – and it's the Republicans who always seem to be the ones closeting their true sexual desires. I'm so sick of the whole "we're morally superior" – plenty of Dems/Independents go to church and try to live morally decent lives, and yet somehow, the Republicans have become the "morally superior party." And then instead of seizing on the real issue of the story, people focuse on the fact that he may or may not be gay. Being gay isn't a crime. Being a hypocrite and attaining public office, while not a legal crime, is still a moral crime. The hypocrisy is ridiculous.

As always, the proof is in the pudding. You can't claim you're a good Christian and then behave in a matter completely opposite. Walk your talk, or else shut up. a True Christian does not need to lie, cheat, hide, mislead, cover up, or live their lives hidden behind a title.

While I think that the guy is entitled to hold public office whether he is gay or straight, this is a sex scandal, and if it tarnishes his ability to lead in an honorable, respectful way, then he should step down.

It's really pathetic to me that Republicans (and conservatives in general) detest gays so much that so many among their ranks have to hide their true feelings just to get by.

The Party of "family" values strikes again! What will O'Reilly say about this?

Republican, hypocrite two words same meaning. The leader of The Nation lies everytime he moves his lips. What can we expect of his fallowers.
There is always "The Bount Hunter"

"But I do find it odd that when about a month ago the DEMOCRATIC Mayor of Atlantic city runs away for two weeks and is in hiding, it never made the ticker.

Around the same time TWELVE DEMOCRATS from New Jersey were charged with bribery, payoffs, extortion etc, etc and again it NEVER made the ticker.".
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Regardless of party, if the 12 New Jersey officials are guilty, they need to be sent to prison. However, to correct the record, there was one Republican in the 12. It should also be mentioned that the mayor supposedly disappeared to check himself into a facility for substance abuse and mental problems.

The reason that these cases of homosexuality by Republicans becomes an ongoing news story is not the sexual preference, but the unending hypocrisy. If Republicans didn't make such big issues out of condemning homosexuals and praising their own supposed "family values", the exposure of their lack of true belief in what they were preaching would not be so newsworthy. If many of them were honest about themselves and humanity this wouldn't be an issue.

Im taking Hillarys' stance "this is a vast left wing consipracy", seriously who is this guy, and why all of a sudden do the tolerant left all of a suddent develope a case of homophobia. If he is gay who cares what legislation he votes for, isnt it his right to both like men, and then vote against gays, who cares if he is a hypocrit, alot of parents did drugs as kids, then tell their kids not to do drugs are they hypocrits?

Unlike the dems, reps encourage this type reporting. It effectively weeds out the perverts in hawks clothing..

I'd just like to say that Ga Voter, who wants to marry his dog, must be from Tiger Ridge. The rest of us don't act that way. You got the hots for Mom, that's your problem, but ya know why it ain't a big problem for the rest of us? We got no interest in marrying Sis or Fido like you do. If there were a million of you, all in love with Bowser and Rex, I'd say the law should begin to consider your petition.

. . . but right now you're just some guy in Tiger Ridge, givin' yer dog a real long slow speculative look. The rest of us are turning away in horror.

Who cares what his sexual preferences are! People have the right to do whatever they want behind closed doors. And who are we to judge other people based on their desires?
Yeah, it all sounds good. Now if only we could make the GOP live by those words, especially now, seeing that a good number of them are themselves of an "alternative" sexual orientation. Leave him alone, and maybe he'll start being a little more open minded...

This is funny as hell, first the guy is a dirtbag, fine, over and done.

This guy is a nobody in any political circle and many of you are going to hammer this nobody as he is a Republican, fine, HE deserves it.

But I do find it odd that when about a month ago the DEMOCRATIC Mayor of Atlantic city runs away for two weeks and is in hiding, it never made the ticker.

Around the same time TWELVE DEMOCRATS from New Jersey were charged with bribery, payoffs, extortion etc, etc and again it NEVER made the ticker.

Just making a point, you can start the ALL Republicans are hypocrites frenzy even though you know nothing about this loser.

Can I then make the "leap" that ALL Democrats are nutbags who believe that their own government blew up buildings and ALL Democrats believe in UFO's?

I agree with Terry from El Paso, TX,
...What bothers me the most is the accusation that he offered a young man a thousand bucks for access to his charms and then stiffed the boy. That kind if fiscal irresponsiblity and dishonesty is something we have come to expect from Conservatives. If that is the truth, then the least he can do is to cough up the cash. After all, what is more sacred than a contract?

If I want to marry my sister or mother or dog, can I then say I don't have equal rights too? Isn't that a civil rights issue??

I'm surprised that moralizing Republicans getting caught in gay sex scandals is still considered news.

With so many repressed homosexual Republicans coming out of the closet, perhaps the Republican Party will consider supporting equal rights for their closeted contingent?

Do you think these closet cases can out run their gayness by voting against equal rights for gay people?

Wouldn't it be healthier for them to quit cowering, and step out of the closet with confidence?

They may just find that their constituents don't really care that they are gay.

Doesn't everybody know someone who is gay (family, friend, co-worker)?

I hope Americans (Republicans included) have come to realize that gay people are just as boring as they are.

There is no reason for this man to resign. Men's sexual fantasies are programmed into them while they are teenagers, and they don't have much choice about what kinds of sex-play they desire. We might be surprised to learn how many of our lawmakers and other officials are wearing lingerie beneath their business suits and uniforms.

Many men with non-standard sexual desires are drawn to Conservatism and fundamentalist moral codes because they are thereby provided with cover (who would suspect them?) and their guilt is offset by the good deeds they do.

What bothers me the most is the accusation that he offered a young man a thousand bucks for access to his charms and then stiffed the boy. That kind if fiscal irresponsiblity and dishonesty is something we have come to expect from Conservatives. If that is the truth, then the least he can do is to cough up the cash. After all, what is more sacred than a contract?

Another sexually repress republican hypocrite...

I suggest a preemptive outing of all these guys (and gals?) by those who have known of their peccadilloes for a long time, supported by hidden video to document the facts.