Senator Larry Craig is he more gulity of being gay or more guilty of being a liar?

Question

Senator Larry Craig is bi-sexual and should have come clean to his embattled wife and co workers. How could Senator Craig do this and do you thing he is more guilty of being gay or being a liar?

Answer 1

If you are looking for hypocritical behavior, you really don't have to look past the news media. In the days before Larry Craig announced he would resign, the coverage had the tone of "Off with his head!" - talking about how terrible he was, how this one little action showed that he was Gay, that he was a hypocrite, that he should resign.

Now that he has resigned, they say, oh, what, he resigned? His lousy friends wouldn't back him up and made him resign? Hey, maybe he didn't really do anything so bad afterall!

Answer 2

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Okay, let's get one thing straight first off- I'm an Idahoan, *not a Republican, or a Democrat*. I'm a member of the Green Party. So please, cut off with the "Liberals this" and "Conservatives that".

What he did was poor judgement, and I do believe he is guilty of soliciting sex in a public location. His "embattled wife" has had this happen before- if you dig around on the 'net you'll find references to an earlier incident from a couple of years ago that had to do with pages.

Unfortunately, he did lie. When he claimed he pled guilty because it was the best option he could think of, he claimed that he *wasn't* guilty, which put him up for purgery. So he lied first off, and then he lied about the treatment he recieved from the police- he claimed he'd been treated roughly and such, when the officers who were there said he came along quietly.

He also acted arrogantly when he returned, showing them his card and asking if they knew who he was.

I don't think someone can be "guilty of being gay" because that's not something you can be guilty of. :| I'm tired of listen to the old rag of; "The /BIBLE/ says it's bad, so it must be. It's evil, we have to stamp it out." That is what I'm hearing about this, from the action of the Republicans (although I can see other reasons, purgery and lying being two of them) and from Republicans on the street.

Answer 3

If he were gay, and he is 62 years old, don't you think there would be quite a few men who would be jumping on the bandwagon to say they had knowledge of his gayness? In 62 years all they can come up with is one airport Rent-A-Cop, and a few anonymous guys who think maybe they are pretty sure he was a guy they had done this with in an airport maybe a lot of years ago. i mean, really, there should be dozens of men that they can find, but they can't because there aren't any. he's guilty of being arrogant, but not gay.

Answer 4

I think liar. Or someone with very poor judgment.

Except for the rabid conversatives, his crime was not maybe being gay, but the cover-up.

He apparently didn't even tell his wife of this incident, and the fact that he was arrested and convicted (remember a guilty plea is the same legally as a conviction) of this crime.

The "Family Values" crime was not that he did something that suggest that he may have been attempting to commit adultery, the family values crime is that this person did not share with his family a significant event in his life.

Answer 5

I think he's most guilty of being stupid. The statute they charged him under, disorderly conduct, reads:

609.72 DISORDERLY CONDUCT Subdivision 1. Crime.
Whoever does any of the following in a public or private place, including on a school bus, knowing, or having reasonable grounds to know that it will, or will tend to, alarm, anger or disturb others or provoke an assault or breach of the peace, is guilty of disorderly conduct, which is a misdemeanor:

(1) Engages in brawling or fighting; or
(2) Disturbs an assembly or meeting, not unlawful in its character; or
(3) Engages in offensive, obscene, abusive, boisterous, or noisy conduct or in offensive, obscene, or abusive language tending reasonably to arouse alarm, anger, or resentment in others.

A person does not violate this section if the person's disorderly conduct was caused by an epileptic seizure

Even if he acted exactly as the officer says he did, the application of this statute to his conduct is a stretch. Any attorney worth his/her salt could have defended him against the charges and prevailed. Pleading guilty to "make it go away" was just plain stupid.

Answer 6

This IS America, so keep in mind that we can't know the real truth. Ever. But, IF yup, the big IF. If he did as reported, he's guilty of cheating. If he's a cheater, he's a liar. Unless he married in the church of Multi partners. It doesn't much matter if a lying cheater is straight, gay, or a eunoch.

Answer 7

He solicited sex in an airport bathroom. He is only guilty (by plea) of "disorderly conduct". He is not and will not be found guilty of soliciting sex.

It is the republican party that wants him out of the senate. Had he been a democrat, this incident would have been celebrated as a "coming out". I can name a dozen democrat congressmen (and a president) that have done much worse. In the democrat party this would be a badge of dishonor that would be worn proudly.

Answer 8

Perhaps he's more guilty of being a hypocrite, like most in his party who pander to the fundies rather than voice for or against an issue on its merits. He's paying the price for his homophobic crusade.

I'm not gay, but the whole phony agenda makes me disgusted.

Answer 9

I think from a legal standpoint, he's guilty of soliciting sex in a public restroom.

From a moral standpoint, he's guilty of being a pervert, which shows low character on his part.

But hey...give the man his day in court. I have little sympathy for those who have lived their lives in the halls of power. Let all the other ivy league "upper crust" get a glimpse of the vitriol we have to live with from the homosexual community.

Answer 10

A liar that's willing to stab gays in the back just to suck up to the right wing fascists.