Get government out of the bathroom

LATimes ^ | August 29, 2007 | Nick Gillespie

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As we all look forward to more sputtering news conference antics from Sen. Larry Craig, here's hoping that the Idaho politician will eventually draw on traditional Republican principles and stand up for his right to engage in consensual sex in toilet stalls with men. Craig, a critic of the Patriot Act who weakened some of its worst provisions during last year's renewal vote, clearly understands the need to keep the government from snooping willy-nilly on its citizens.

At first flush, the news that the 62-year-old senior senator from the Gem State pleaded guilty Aug. 8 to misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct in a Minnesota airport men's room is not simply embarrassing but humiliating -- especially to the people of Idaho, who returned him to office for the third time in 2002 with 65% of the vote. According to police reports, Craig tapped his foot near and ran his hand alongside his toilet stall divider, which the arresting officer said he recognized as a come-on for sex. After the cop, who was sitting in the adjacent stall, flashed his badge and made the arrest, Craig compounded his poor judgment by trying to invoke senatorial privilege. He handed the police officer his U.S. Senate business card and intoned, "What do you think of that?" Craig paid almost $600 in fines and fees and was sentenced to a year of probation and 10 days in a county jail (the latter was stayed).

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I think Nick Gillespie has ulterior motives. He wants to cuddle up with Corey while sharing tears and fears forever. Who knows what would have happened if he had only kept up with Kirk(who is the Christian David Deangelo) instead of gotten ready for Freddy(who is ghey). Regardless, forget say no to drugs, just say yes to Jon Bon Jovi.

I also later worked for the pornographically named teen magazine, Teen Machine, where I interviewed the Coreys: Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, and that ilk. At Teen Machine, the most notable thing there was that I ghostwrote an advice column there for Alyssa Milano. And there's probably any number of pregnant teenage mothers who unfortunately followed the bad advice of Alyssa Milano. Who knows actually how much venereal disease got spread as a result of that column?

http://mediabistro.com/articles/cache/a894.asp

BTW folks, if you hurry now you can get this magazine on ebay now. http://cgi.ebay.com/Teen-Machine-Magazine-May-1989-Johnny-Depp-Bon-Jovi_W0QQitemZ170142360626QQihZ007QQcategoryZ280QQcmdZViewItem

[traditional1]

Why isn't GLBT and other nutcase-deviate groups jumping up to defend Larry Craig's "lifestyle"?

What a bunch of limp-wristed losers...

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

This article’s a joke, right?

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My comment is suppose to be a joke. Nick Gillespie used to be an editor(or something) for Teen Machine magazine. I just kind of tied it all in together.

[massgopguy]

We had a major problem at Malden City Hall. The Men’s Room by the Senior Center got Five Stars from a Gay Web Site. It was shocking at the nerve of these gay guys.

[Lexington Green]

How about we get the perverts out of our bathrooms?

[goodnesswins]

YES...needs repeating....louder....

How about we get the perverts out of our bathrooms?

[newzjunkey]

Why isn't GLBT and other nutcase-deviate groups jumping up to defend Larry Craig's "lifestyle"?

Activists see the Craig affair and Foley affair and one or two others through this prism:

1. He's Republican
2. He's been nominally conservative
3. His "anti-gay" votes are hypocrisy

[traditional1]

Bingo

Hypocrisy is a way of life for Liberals....

[pallis]

If not for these little dramas, those of us in the boonies would be oblivious to the wonders of gay enlightenment. How else are we to learn the nuances of stall queers, or even know there are such things as stall queers? I, for one, want to thank Senator Craig for the education.

[stockstrader]

No comments from Rudy on the Craig fiasco??

[ClaireSolt]

Where are the civil libertarians? How it is that tappin your foot three time is not covered by the first amendment. What’s next? rising my eyebrows is a hate crime.

[Bryan24]

Anybody tries that with me in a bathroom, he won’t be trying that again anytime soon.

[Turbopilot]

Ping

[wideminded]

I've noticed the following phenomenon in two major cities (including Boston):

1. I go into a store near a big public library to buy something and notice that the store seems to be run entirely by gay men.

2. I later hear that that the police have made many arrests in response to complaints about sexual activity in the library men's room.

My conclusion is that many gay men find the idea of employment near a library attractive because it provides an opportunity for frequent sex in the library men's room.

[longtermmemmory]

these are the same people defending sex in public bathrooms.

This is insane.]

Perhaps it should be illegal to list a public restroom as a hook up place as on internet sites. (no free speech to comit a crime)

arrest a few webmasters and clarity will come to their minds.

[Cicero]

“At first flush”?

[traviskicks]

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[Xenalyte]

Fred Savage is gay?

[Lurker]

I'm sure the Editorial Board of the LA Slimes was all in favor of the Federal Government legislatively mandating the installation low flow toilets.

Therefore their 'get out of the bathroom' comments now ring pretty damned hollow with me.

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