Practice what you preach

People keep talking about how anti-gay Sen. Craig is, what with his Senate record and whatnot, and calling him a hypocrite for it. (Or talking about how people aren't talking about it, whatever.) Now I've never met the dude, but this all seems a bit myopic to me -- does an interest in a nice slutty airport bathroom man-on-man hookup automatically mean you should support gay marriage? You don't get to pick who you're attracted to, and your desire doesn't dictate your politics. Whatever various and sundry factors have led to him choosing to (attempt to) appear as a straight man (who definitely does not enjoy sex in airport bathrooms with men!) for his whole life have presumably also made him an opponent of gay marriage, and that's not really that weird. Now if he was in fact secretly married to a man, that might be a different story, but the guy obviously doesn't much like gay people, including however big a part of himself that is (around 6 inches, i bet).

(Aside: on his web site, the "Hot Topics" section says this:
Idahoans are contacting me most about these issues:
Cigarette tax in SCHIP
Increases in CAFE standards
Gas Prices
New passport requirements for US citizens

Really? Are you sure you're not, um, overlooking one?)

So I've been trying to avoid making some sort of pedophilia comparison here (like, lots of people who are unfortunately attracted to kids think their attraction is wrong, and we're all OK with that. We don't call them hypocrites because they're not in NAMBLA), because who am I, Santorum? But really that's sort of my point -- the only thing wrong with engaging in sex with children is they're not able to consent and you'll fuck 'em all up. Resulting in more people like The Honorable Larry Craig, and who wants that?

There is nothing inherently wrong with being attracted to anybody, it's what happens when you act on it that makes the difference, so child molestation=bad, gay sex=good. Fucking your poor little Chihuahua in the butt? Probably not so comfy for the dog. Sucking off a horse? Looks like he's having a pretty good time. Not that I've ever seen a video of that. So, to recap, pedophilia is like small-dog-anal-sex, whereas homosexual activity is like equine-oral-sex. Just so we're clear.

However, other people disagree with me, and think being gay is morally wrong. This is also not a choice. I mean, maybe you can go to Isaiah Washington's rehab or whatever, but by and large you have come by that opinion for a totally irrational reason, and therefore it is very difficult to change. Best I can hope for is that some sort of terrible tragedy happens to you and causes you to lose your faith in God, thereby also abandoning all your retarded ideas about artificial morality. That would be good.

So, since the desire to proposition men in airport bathrooms is not a choice, and the thinking that gay sex is morally wrong is not a choice, it is really not so strange that both would exist within the same person. Of course he could choose to not act on either or both of these things, but wouldn't that make him a hypocrite?