Gay activist group asks Senate panel to end Larry Craig investigation

[IDemo]

Ethics Committee's actions reflect ‘hypocrisy tinged with homophobia,' Gay and Lesbian Task Force leader says.

By Erika Bolstad
Edition Date: 11/14/07

WASHINGTON — The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has asked the Senate Ethics Committee to drop its investigation into Sen. Larry Craig, saying the committee is applying an unfair double standard to the Idaho Republican and his Louisiana colleague, Sen. David Vitter.

Senate Republicans asked the Ethics Committee to investigate Craig's conduct within days of learning that he had been arrested in a sex sting this summer in the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport.

Craig was accused of soliciting sex from an undercover police officer who was staking out a restroom where police were investigating complaints of lewd behavior by men. Craig pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct without consulting a lawyer and is now trying to overturn his plea.

Yet Vitter, who was identified as having made a phone call to a Washington, D.C., escort service run by the so-called D.C. Madam, got a far warmer political reception, said Matt Forman, executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Task Force.

http://www.idahostatesman.com/localnews/story/210331.html

[Ian David]

1. No! I think the Republickers should be forced to have an anti-gay witch hunt within their own party.

The Republick Party should be forced to root-out all their closeted gays by around October 2008.

[MonkeyFunk]

2. This is a very clever strategy...

defending Craig on gay rights grounds. Make him keep jumping up and down and yelling "But I'm NOT gay! I'm NOT!!"

Then the activists pat him on the head and say "yes, honey". And then defend him on gay-rights grounds again.

[TechBear_Seattle]

3. Brilliant strategy!

:rofl:

[Beerboy]

4. He also already plead guilty to a crime under MN law,

he's a lawmaker who breaks the law. I can't respect the NGLTF's stance in this case.