"Really, just how many closeted, self-hating, violently repressed "I-am-not-gay" totally gay hypocrites are there in the Republican Party?"
"Because baby, it just keeps
popping up, scandal after scandal, homophobic lawmaker after anti-gay
preacher after gay marriage attacker after hooker-loving "family
values" adulterer, Bob Allen to Ted Haggard to Jim West to Glenn Murphy
Jr. to David "Diaperman" Vitter, so many examples of a militant loudmouthed Christian Republican suddenly caught with his pants down around his boyfriend's ankles that, after so many headlines,
the notion that these cases might be rare or exceptional simply
vanishes and you are left only with the undeniable fact that, oh my
God, the American right is simply teeming with so much murky, pressure-cooked homoeroticism it might as well be a Young Republicans kegger at Mark Foley's pink Miami Beach condo. The more intolerant you become
and the more fixed your ideas of how it's all supposed to work, the
more likely the universe will simply laugh, and smack you upside the
head, and secretly take your picture licking your new leather boots or
applauding the bombing of Afghanistan or eating that endangered baby
seal burger. In your Hummer. With a rifle. On top of Bill O'Reilly. Dear eternally baffled,
terminally horny humans: You can only poison your own soul for so long.
You can only lie to yourself, your wife, your children, the nation,
your own miserable and intolerant genitalia before the backlash, the
recoil, the nasty acid reflux comes right back up to bite your ass in
the cold, cold bathroom stall of life. Do you understand? Do you not
yet see?
Not exactly a revelation, I admit. As you already know and as
any D.C. therapist or male prostitute or honest historian will happily
remind you, this is the way it's always been; incidents like Idaho Sen. Larry Craig's toe-tapping in the tearoom
merely reinforce the great Rule of Conservative Hypocrisy -- the louder
and more self-righteous the indignation over a given "moral" issue, the
more sure you can be that the screamer in question is simply oozing
with repressed fantasy/lust regarding that very issue -- and what's
more, is very likely acting on it, right now, in a fetish dungeon,
brothel or bathroom stall near you.
Do not, at the peril of your very spirit, at the risk of all
that is beautiful and good and fluid and sexual and wet and sticky and
right, hold so tightly, so violently to your narrow views of sex and
love and human behavior that, when you are caught naked and shivering
and salivating on your bed of nails doing exactly the thing your
beliefs profess to hate, that your very soul explodes, the flowers
wilt, the gods laugh and you are handed a tiny yellow ticket
guaranteeing your return in the next life as a small, black, cancerous
lesion on the underbelly of a hyena. OK?"


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