[Salman]

Let's get this (you should pardon the expression) straight.

He admits he abandoned his family. He proudly boasts that he has a sexual relationship with another man. That's A-OK.

Someone alleges (maybe falsely) that he patted a man on the behind and looks at naked pictures. That's a smear.

[sgtbono2002]

You have brought it down to the basics. Why worry about whether or not he looks at pornography when we know he participates in perverted acts.

[wita]

Pardon extended, I get it. OTOH, if an admitted homosexual was not involved in a physical relationship with another man and was so living as not to have a physical relationship just as potential adulterers are so living, I could see nomination and confirmation, but then why the issue in the first place, I don't announce I'm a potential adulterer anymore than someone else announces their sexual leanings, unless it happens to involve the out of the closet types GLB&T which in reality is HLB&T with the T a really questionable issue. The whole lifestyle and the need to come out, and the marriage thing, is so convoluted and counter productive, that it boggles my mind. My sense of the issue is God didn't ask them to come out of the closet.