As for claiming that he’s gay, please forgive my confusion but I’m not sure what you’re referring to. I certainly didn’t say it in my piece. That would be up to Craig to answer, not me.

Studies, resulting in publications, on human sexuality on this issue of men in bathrooms as resulted with the facts (culled from police arrest records) is the simple fact over 90 percent of the men arrested in the bathrooms (ie Bob Allen the Bible Thumping homophobe for elections purposes) ……

FROM THE PUBLIC RECORDS:

Over 90 percent of the men arrested having sex in bathrooms are married, straight men with kids who happen to think their penises trump their biblical oaths at some church altar.

The prisons are full of these straight men on the downlow.

Good post, Jim, although I don’t think that one has to condone Craig’s actions or think that there should be no repercussions to think that this sort of sting and the way he was railroaded into a plea is wrong and unjust. I’m not going to pretend like it was worse for him than any of the other men who are picked up for this sort of thing, and I was kinda wavering back and forth on the issue until I listened to the police tape of his interview. It suddenly made the whole thing a lot less funny, considering how many times Craig tried to assure the officer not challenge him or his recounting of events in court, as the officer was threatening to add felony charges. To me, even if Craig did everything that the officer says he did and was going to do everything the officer thought he was going to do, due process still wasn’t served.

I’m not trying to convince you to agree with me here, just explaining the feeling I got while listening to that tape. (I’m trying to be less heteropatriarchal in the way I argue, and, yes, Timothy, I even see how one argues as a queer issue. Go figure, lol.)

Patrick Sammon, president of the Log Cabin Republicans, a group that supports gay rights, agreed. “I think voters don’t have much patience for hypocrisy,” he said, regardless of one’s party affiliation. “I think voters are tired of people who don’t live honest lives.”

Hypocrisy is not a sin associated with only closeted homosexuals, Sammon said.

He pointed out that Sen. David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican, in July acknowledged having telephoned the alleged D.C. Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey. Like Vitter, Sammon said, “Sen. Craig has tried to legislate morality at the same time he’s having serious character and integrity problems himself.”

I have not, as of yet, identified where Log Cabin called for Vitter’s resignation but at least they are speaking about him in the same sentence as Craig.

Log Cabin has been providing a strong voice in the midst of the scandal involving Senator Larry Craig (R-ID). His behavior has been inappropriate and illegal. His explanation is not credible. He should take responsibility for his poor judgment and illegal behavior by resigning.

Some media is agreeing with you and making the same point.

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=vitter+craig&um=1&sa=N&tab=wn

I don’t argue that Craig shouldn’t be expelled. I argue that there are no grounds for not including Vitter in the same discussion.