Before Larry Craig there was Bob Allen from Florida, who has been found guilty of soliciting sex in a public bathroom. A staunch Republican who not only opposed all aspects of Gay Rights, but who actively sought to limit those rights.
(Tampa, Florida) State Rep. Bob Allen (R) has been convicted of offering an undercover male police officer cash for sex. (source)
What I find odd, both in this case, the Senator Craig incident, and others, is how these seeming Homophobics defend themselves. I mean to claim he was attempting to find a way out of the place due to feeling threatened, is just ludicrous. Yet this man spent his public career attempting to degrade and deny Gay’s their fundamental rights. Now he claims he was just trying to get away from blacks?
Somebody’s white sheet is showing.
You know, I can understand a person who has a desire to be with the same sex, hiding it. I mean given how Racist Society is, how much Hate there is for Homosexuals, it is understandable to want to hide that fact. What I don’t get, is how can you turn on your own like Bob Allen did? I mean he did his best to lead the fight against Gay Rights, to the point where he even tried to deny protection of gay kids from bullying.
In the last session of the Florida legislature he sponsored a failed bill that would have tightened the state’s prohibition on public sex. He also has been a supporter of amending the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage and has opposed a bill to curb bullying of gay students. (source)
That is what I simply do not understand.
