“He was in a restroom known to be a place for soliciting gay sex. He was outted as gay on a gay website last October.”
For goodness sake, he was in an airport bathroom! How many thousands of men each day visit this place “known” for gay sex? Unless there is some other circumstance such as Craig didn’t have a airplane ticket, going to a bathroom in an airport seems pretty normal.
As for being outted as gay on a gay website: it seems to me that this was denied and not proven. The newspaper investigating said they didn’t have enough evidence to run the story.
For a moment, assume that Craig is not gay (or perverted). If you are a gay activist ‘blogger’ wouldn’t a great way to smear a conservative who votes against ‘gay rights’ is to say that you had a gay relationship with that conservative senator, knowing that the Senator can’t proven it one way or the other?
Give it up. He plead guilty.
Perhaps he shouldn’t have...now he wants to get a good lawyer and fight it? All the while the media will be reporting every titillating aspect of the accusations. No, he weighed that option and decided to take the chance that the media’s wouldn’t pick up on a misdemeanor in another state.
Think about it. You’re a straight, married, innocent guy and suddenly this cop is charging you with (flimsy) charges of public lewdness and soliciting gay sex. You hold a job where the gay lobby would love nothing more than to “out” you (they’ve been trying for years). AND YOU PLEAD GUILTY?! You wouldn’t even fight the charges? Yeah, right. You’d do everything in your power to clear your name.