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Forcing Larry Craig's resignation while embracing David Vitter

Cost-free moralism is the only type the right-wing "traditional marriage" movement believes in.
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  • Thursday, August 30, 2007 06:52 AM

    The eeewww factor.

    This is a post that is of course seriously overdue. Clearly the whole "family values" issue is a sham. There are no principles involved. But the issue does have power. The reason it has power is sadly there are certain things that make many people uncomfortable to contemplate. For many people, sex between two men is high on that list. (I'm assuming that for many straight men the contemplation of sex between two women doesn't elicit the same reaction.)

    So what we have is an entire edifice of outrage and moral indignation built up over what at its core is just personal discomfort. The reason Rush traipsing off to the DR for a little chemically enhanced recreation doesn't elicit the same reaction is because it simply doesn't cause the same discomfort.

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