Back to business.
It’s a new day, and time to get back to business as usual in this one-horse town, leaving the LiveJournal fiasco behind until something else of note happens (and as I’m writing this at 2:15 a.m. CST, nothing of note has happened). Remember the openly anti-gay Republican caught soliciting oral sex in a Florida bathroom? Well, now we’ve got homophobia, hypocrisy, prostitution, and racism all piled into one as he says that black people made him do it.
Anti-Gay Politician Says Blacks Responsible For Soliciting Gay Sex Charge - 365gay.com
(Tampa, Florida) State Rep. Bob Allen (R), a longtime foe of LGBT rights in Florida, has a bizarre excuse for being charged with offering a male cop $20 for oral sex in a washroom at a park. [...] In taped statements made by Allen to police following his arrest and released by the force Allen admits to soliciting the male officer but claims that it was the result of being nervous by the high number of black men in the park.
[...]Of the arresting officer Allen said in the tape, “This was a pretty stocky black guy, and there was nothing but other black guys around in the park.”
He claimed he feared he “was about to be a statistic” would have said anything just to get away.
But on the tape Allen also admits warning the undercover cop that “undercover cops” were in the area and the man should be careful.
Because a big, stocky black man automatically means that you’re in danger of being sodomized and killed. Right. Sure.
At this point that man’s shoved his foot so far down his throat that his toes are playing peek-a-boo through his arsehole. I’m sure that looks great for Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign, what with Allen being a prominent figure in its organization.
I’m continuously amazed that people like this end up in office, and fear for what it means about anyone that he might endorse. Then again, I really should stop being shocked by people’s behavior. I accept that not everyone thinks the way that I do, or feels the same way about controversial issues such as homophobia and racism. But when a state rep tries to wiggle out a prostitution/solicitation rap by making racist statements, and when things happen like the family of an ailing gay man denying his partner of over two decades the right to see him, my already shaken faith in humanity takes another staggering blow.
Good stinkin’ morning, America.
homophobia, prostitution, senator john mccain, representative bob allen, florida, indianapolis, patrick atkins, brett conrad
August 7th, 2007 at 7:10 am
I have come to your site though a series of links, my own curioity, and returning interest in the LGBT community. Stupid me, I converted to Catholicism and thought I could keep my societal views–those were the first things that went. In adition to entertaining, informing, and educating me, your site has reminded me of one of the things that I care about most, which becoming religious blinded me from. My support for ALL humanity’s rights.
This article made me laugh, but at the same time, it saddens me a great deal. It reminds me that people are stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid (I count myself among them quite frequently–but I’m rarely as stupid as this political idiot is–I know when to keep my mouth shut). I don’t know which is worse: The Shrub, or people like this. They all want the same thing. They want the world to conform to their ideal of it, and they’re willing to step on whomever’s in their way to squeeze the world into that nice, little, prewrapped gift box they’ve prepared for it, so they can get it on their next birthday.
YICK!
August 7th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
hey busy boy … u ignoring me?
August 7th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
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We’re clearly devolving.
August 8th, 2007 at 6:29 am
Amy, you say: “Stupid me, I converted to Catholicism and thought I could keep my societal views–those were the first things that went.”
I find this a very strange thing to read. Why wouldn’t you be able to keep your views? I really hope you will tell me what happened to you, because I don’t understand why becoming a Catholic would rob you of all that.
August 8th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
Sihaya:
I lost my views because I’m a bit of a follower, and I stop thinking when something NEW AND EXCITING catches my attention. Catholicism was NEW AND EXCITING. Now, I’m coming a bit off that high and remembering myself and who I really want to be. I’m getting back into the things I separated myself from in going so zealously for Catholicism. I’m taking steps back from my faith to reacquaint with myself again, and I’m going through a transitional phase right now where I’m figuring out just what I want to keep of Catholicism and what I don’t.
August 9th, 2007 at 3:59 am
Thank you =) I wish you good luck with your search! I think you will find it very rewarding once you’re finished with it!
November 12th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
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