The Republican Party hit the jackpot with its cruelty. Larry Craig resigned today as a US Senator after a firestorm of outrage set off when he pled guilty to lewd behavior in the men's room of the Minneapolis International Airport in the summer of 2007.
The first person to shun Senator Craig was Mitt Romney, Republican presidental hopeful, and known as the hypocrite-in-chief in Massachusetts where he lied about his views on homosexuality and abortion in order to be elected governor of the state, which he was.
The party that gets votes and keeps its power by playing to the prejudices and myths held by a minority of the American public once more is shown to be riddled not only with hypocrisy but with beliefs that are inhuman and inhumane.
So what if Craig is gay or bisexual? He is a human being, entitled to be who he is. The unreasonable beliefs about homosexuality have deeply hurt him and his family and GLBT people in general, now only today but for centuries.
From this horror may came some enlightenment. The Republican Party is being hung by its own petard, by its own ridiculous, cruel views and practices.
I also wonder if Craig would have been bullied and bludgeoned into resigning if the governor of his state were a Democrat. Probably not, because a Democratic governor would appoint a Democratic senator. That would upset the balance of power in the Senate.
The so-called moral and family values of the Republican Party not only are inhumane, but they will be trumped if loss of Republican power is at stake.
Open your minds. Be kind, not cruel. Hate mongering does untold damage.
The Republicans I know are as troubled by these events as I am. In reality, this is not a debacle that all Republicans have a hand in.
Those who hounded Craig out of his duly elected office have committed an unkind deed and then covered up with self-righteous cruelty and blather. They have succeeded in being shits.
Who will hold them accountable? When? Have they no decency?
On being a shit is a blog that points out the unkind deeds and cover-ups that are so pervasive in politics and other aspects of U.S. life.
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Good for people to know.
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