I’ll be honest and admit that I don’t quite understand what attraction some gay men have with sexual encounters in public restrooms. I don’t even like using a public restroom to go to the restroom. Public restrooms are nasty and I don’t like using them unless I really need to.
Craig claims that he is not gay. Its hard to imagine why then he would plead guilty to disorderly conduct in conjunction to being arrested for lewd conduct in a men’s room.
This whole thing would be so much easier to understand if he was gay. It’s his assertion that he is a woman-loving heterosexual that makes this whole story really creepy. Being gay would only help to explain this whole thing, especially if he was a closeted Republican gay man.
The sad part about all this mess is that some people out there will take this story and conclude from this that all gay men like to troll public restrooms for gay sex. That’s simply not true. Gay men and women can be in committed relationships like anyone else. Why do conservatives so fervently battle the idea of gay marriage? If gay people are not capable of a committed relationship as they argue, why even bother trying to stop gay marriage?
Mark Engblom
/ August 30, 2007“The sad part about all this mess is that some people out there will take this story and conclude from this that all gay men like to troll public restrooms for gay sex.”
I sure some think that, but I believe the vast majority of people wouldn’t make that sweeping generalization. Even us conservatives! (gasp)
Rick
/ August 30, 2007Yes perhaps so, but some people will conclude that all gay men troll public restrooms. A lot of people in our country view homosexuality as some sort of deviant lifestyle. Events such as this unfortunately only help reinforce this belief.
I don’t think conservatives would be so steadfast against same-sex marriage if they looked at homosexuality as being no more deviant then heterosexuality.
Mark Engblom
/ August 30, 2007Deviant: In the eye of the beholder.
Not the norm: Statistically true.
Rick
/ August 30, 2007“Deviant” as in someone who is perverted or someone who is a sexual degenerate. Simply being gay doesn’t make one a sexual degenerate or a deviant.
Being left handed or being 6′6″ tall is statistically outside the norm. I doubt anyone would label me as deviant for being either of these two.