All You Need to Do Is Follow The Worms

You may or may not know that yet another pro-family anti-gay politician has recently dropped the other shoe, or he at least tapped the shoe of an undercover cop in the restroom stall next to him. Gay or not, that seems like bad bathroom manners.

Anyway the Idaho Values Alliance (a state affiliate of the American Family Association) has said it must regretfully ask for Larry Craig's resignation- only because the testimony of two witnesses- Craig's guilty plea and the arresting officer's reports- is enough to suggest his guilt- or rather- "the essential truth of what happened." So he's out, or he should be as far as they are concerned. Not only that, they have called for the purge of all homosexuals from the party- not just their group mind you, the whole Republican Party. Ignoring for a moment that if they do that, they really should follow up and boot a whole host of other types- divorcees and women with short hair to name two- isn't this a bit like the very thing we say can never happen here?

"Wouldn't you like to see America returned to her rightful place- wouldn't you like to see Our Way rule again? All we need to do is get rid of those people."

Isn't this akin to the Talibanesque, Brownshirty way of doing things that we're supposed to be so eager to blow up in the rest of the world?

Of course they're not lining anyone up against the wall or marching them into re-education camps. I don't know if they would want to, or if they could be perfectly happy just to have no gay people in their party. Isn't it, nonetheless, a troubling sentiment for a democracy?

Besides, how can you tell if someone's gay? I mean other than the strident public declarations against homosexuality, endorsing strict "traditional" gender roles, supporting the Defense of Marriage Amendment, and wearing cowboy hats, how can you tell?