I would not want to be a “minority” (who is really a minority in the USA, really?) and be asked the circular “when did you stop beating your wife” type of questions all of the time.
And, lets be honest, those that go into politics today do it for power. They aren’t there to serve society, their constituents. How many of them have recently said they don’t answer to us: Specter, McCain, and one gal I didn’t know when pressured on Fox about pursuing investigations into CIA tactics when the majority of Americans don’t want... it is my duty, my constituents just don’t know better.
Politics is a business now, no longer people willing to SERVE their constituents.