Do Republicans have a Catholic Priest problem?
September 10, 2007
I get asked a lot: How can such an overtly and avowedly anti-Homosexual institution like the Catholic Church be so heavily stocked with gays? Simple. If the laity knew that homosexuality was acceptable, then sexually confused young men wouldn’t be driven in to the priesthood. In a shocking parallel, another anti-gay institution, the Republican Party, is discovering its own leadership to have far more San Francisco values than they would like to admit. And despite their best efforts to portray Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) as an abberation, he’s instead looking like a trend.
Craig is really just the bookend to a year of Republican gay scandal that began with former Rep. Mark Foley‘s (R-FL) page-o-philia, and was filled with a startlingly constant stream of involuntary outings. Since the GOP Congressional leadership had known of Foley’s recruitment campaigns for some time, they might have done more about it…except that they mode of dealing with it was to tell their staff to do something about it. Problem is that their staffers keep turning out to be gay too. Mike Rodgers, now belatedly famous for outing Craig almost a year ago, has been outing Republican hill staffers since 2004 on his site BlogActive, including ones who served über-gaybashers James Inohofe (R-OK) and Rick Santorum (R-PA).
