The dance of the reprehensible

I don’t have much sympathy of Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho, the latest in the growing list of closeted politicians caught with their pants down, and here’s why:

The activist, Mike Rogers, who runs the Web site BlogActive.com, has complained about Craig’s opposition to gay rights. The conservative senator has supported an amendment to the Constitution banning same-sex marriage and voted for the Defense of Marriage Act in the 1990s. Craig, who served in the National Guard, has also spoken out against homosexuals serving in the military.

The self-hatred implicit in that is mind-boggling. Human sexuality could be called the world’s epicenter of hypocrisy. And the intolerance of this gay man in the Senate toward other gay people is mean and almost sadistic. He should resign, not for his behavior in the bathroom, but for his creepy political phoniness.

MORE: Craig also opposed civil unions. That would make him a bigot against himself. We should have a word for that. “His record includes a series of votes against gay rights and his support of a 2006 amendment to the Idaho Constitution that bars gay marriage and civil unions.”