Beltway Area Indymedia

The front page of the August 28 Washington Post had the ultimate juicy story: Another GOP sex scandal! This time itś Mitt Romneyś former Idaho campaign manager and Idaho GOP Senator Larry Craig.

Larry Craig was a big supporter of the Marriage amendment(a constitutional ban on Gay marriage) and opponent of gays in the military. The Washington Post cited DC Gay activist Larry Rogers as having heard comnplaits about him before, from men who encountered him in Union Stationś toilets.

Now he has pled guilty to approaching an undercover cop in the mens rtoom at Minneapolis-St Paul Airport! While he gets off with a $500 fine and a yearś probation, if I had encoutered the same sting I would have had to fight my way out to avoid a month or more in jail!

Aaah, yes! Another dose of good-old-fashioned GOP hypocrisy on the subject of sex! Sen Craig has now come out, denied everything-and said his guilty plea was a mistake! Don forget, heś MARRIED with three grown children...

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