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I could pry myself into a leather mini-skirt and don a tube top made from an ace bandage (I'm male, so it won't be pretty), then walk seedy sections of a large urban area, and I still won't be arrested for breaking a law until I mention exchanging a sexual act for money to an undercover police officer.
Yet young Eliot Ness (sp?) can sit around in stalls, waiting for and arresting men who display a series of physical behaviors he is sure constitute a solicitation of consensual sex without so much as a word exchanged or an article of clothing removed. No, we shouldn't defend the rights of people who want to randomly have sex in public places. But shouldn't they actually commit a crime instead of intimating one before they are subject to the justice system?
That Larry Craig is a senator and should be held to a higher ethical and moral standard is a separate issue. What law did he actually break to get into the news in the first place?
