Joey DiFatta withdraws from Bayou State senate race, caught in gay sex sting
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By Karyn Chenoweth Oct 9, 2007, 0:46 GMT
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So, really, the entire Republican 'political' 'philosophy' can be explained as self-loathing and projection...
Well, not that that's a surprise, actually...
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Typical Republican. Here's an old joke that typifies it.
A Catholic and a Protestant are talking on the street across from a known house of ill repute. The neighborhood rabbi goes into the house.
'What a shame! A man of the cloth', says the Catholic in the group.
Then a Protestant minister knocks on the door.
'What a shame! Another man of the cloth', says the Catholic in the group once again.
Then a Catholic priest is admitted to the house.
The Catholic man says, 'What a shame! One of the girls must have died!'
this really made my day
'I want to play with you' and you claim your not gay.
Okay
Can all the gay people just stand up and say it? Be loud and proud, gay america. Stop persecuting everyone because you can't tell your darkest secrets. We'll all feel better. And I promise not to laugh.
And while you're at it, how about creating a nicer environment for 'hooking up'? I mean, rest stops and bathrooms? Gross!
'I want to play with you.'
That line was like a sun-sweetened cherry on top of a delicious schadenfreude pie.
The restrooms at the GOP convention in St.Paul are going to sound like a rousing Riverdance routine
'I want to play with you.' Isn't that what the creepy dead twin girls said to the kid on the Big Wheel in 'The Shining?'
As a gay man who has -never- sought sex in restrooms or public parks or school yards or etc etc etc, I'm appalled by those who are so terribly self-repressed that they have to do this sort of thing. Like most of you, I sure don't want to be hit on when I'm (literally) just going about my business. My dates/playmates/potential partners are all men I encounter in places, such as gay parties, gay clubs or gay internet chat rooms, where we know that the others are there willingly, have a like mind, and are -definitely- NOT children (I like Men, thank you very much). When righteous hypocrits box themselves into roles of moral superiority that don't accept their own humanity, the result is always wierd twisted behavior. Honestly, I've shared secrets with penty of friends about stuff that could be seen as embarassing but none of us has apparently ever hit on (probably) straight guys in public places. That's just sad.
I 100%, wholeheartedly agree with Actual Patriot. It's what I've been thinking for a long time.
I don't get it...what, exactly, is illegal about soliciting sex? Did he offer to pay money for it?
It's repressed homosexual men masquerading as straight men who always get caught in the restroom, not 'confessed' homosexuals (for lack of a better word).
If these guys lived in a society that allowed them to be themselves, they a> wouldn't have to repress their sexuality and b> wouldn't have to resort to sneaking around in bathroom stalls to have the kind of sex they really want, but are too repressed to get.
Yeah, yeah, another gay republican, so what. Big scandal, but I'm sure for every closeted republican, there are probably two, maybe three liberals out there who are secretly straight and sneak into bars to pick up women.
He should run for President some day.
It's interesting to read the comments and realize that everyone still wants to pretend that there is something wrong with being gay. And that this point is apparently proven by the bathroom liaisons.
Ladies and gentlemen, from whom do you think homosexuals learned to solicit a quick fix from a stranger? Could it have been the fine education heterosexuals provided?
Come on people. Bathroom hook-ups aren't a gay only issue.
Our problems are people who are unable to be honest about who and what they are and people who judge those who are honest.
Did you misplace your basic humanity before you posted your comment?
I won't bother posting facts or statistics, because I know from experience people who believe as you do don't respond at all well to numbers. You're revolted at the fact that gay people even exist, and I know nothing I can say that appeals to cold logic will appeal to you.
So let me appeal to your emotions instead. You showed disgust at the fact that gay people exist, so let me try to tell you what that disgust means on a personal level.
What that means is being thrown out into the rain my your own family- literally. What it means is feeling you are absolutely, 100% alone in the world. It means suddenly not being able to trust people you've known your entire life. It means having people who claim to love you unconditionally pull the rug out from under your feet.
Being gay means you can be evicted at will, even if you didn't break the lease. Being gay means you might not be able to be at the side of the person you love if they're in a bad car accident.
Being gay means losing help from your family to go to school, and having to abandon every last jot of training you've given yourself for the past several years. Being gay means being alone, and lonely, and, as you yourself proved, being outright hated, even by people you've never met, and never will meet.
Those of us who have experienced the things I outlined above- much of which I myself experienced at the hands of my own family, including being literally thrown out into the rain- will understand what I'm trying to say. If you can't mentally put yourself in that position, and try to think about what it *would be* like, I submit you have a decade or two of growing up to do.
K. Nally
Kalamazoo, MI
*If you hate me, COME AND CLAIM ME.*
Response to K. Nally:
It couldn't be more painful than taking it in the *.
Normal people, yeal right.
Lets face it. A certain percentage of men like to have some sort of relations with another man. We should stop focusing on the bathroom crime and spend more time trying to understand this phenomenon. Why would just being gay be a cause to withdrawl frtom a senate race? Seems like there is a stigma attached to being gay. duh! Lets think about why that is and maybe it won't seem so bad.
This is crazy. Both straights and gays alike on this page are tossing stereotype around like its ok to pretend that all gay people are sexually deviant, or that all gay people suffer at the hands of prejudice. Or, on the same token, that gay people are the only ones that persue casual sex. I am, like a few other commentors on here, a gay male American. I dont like it 'smelly' (which is a repulsive concept) nor have I met all of my sexual partners at gay clubs/bars/internet chat rooms. I find it disconcerting that people feel the need to constantly box people in or make judgements based on something as primal and humanly instinctive as sex.
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