The kink of Republican sexual hypocrite Richard Curtis in the news again

[Shana A]

http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=A74CA52549AD13B1C09E3666EF1F91DD?diaryId=4408

The kink of Republican sexual hypocrite Richard Curtis in the news again
by: pam
Sun Feb 10, 2008 at 23:00:00 PM EST

And I thought this matter was over, but somehow it's back in the news again. Stories like these are prime examples of why vocal GOP homophobes and moralists shouldn't hold office. They spend the day hours railing about (and legislating against) the private proclivities of others, while in the dark of night they get their kinks on.

Former Washington State Rep. Richard Curtis, married with kids and who voted against a gay rights measure, didn't seem to have a problem violating the sanctity of his marriage with rent boys in Spokane. (AP):

[tekla]

DO AS WE SAY, NOT AS WE DO ought to be the Republican motto.

[RebeccaFog]

If they would just shut up and come out, then they wouldn't have these problems.

[NicholeW.]

Another one!!? It seems like about once a year since Bob Bauman. Have these men never heard of the "Log Cabin Republicans"?

The cane was definitely a very weird touch!

[tekla]

"Another one" what your not paying attention, its ALL OF THEM, not just one.

[NicholeW.]

All

"Another one" what your not paying attention, its ALL OF THEM, not just one.

All of the Republicans, tekla? Isn't that another rather 'sweeping' statement, likely to be untrue? O, I think I am paying attention. Fatuous commentary from right-leaners, center-standers or left-leaners is all fatuous.



N~

[tekla]

One by one, all these paper tiger moralists fall.  Jim Bakker and what he did to Jessica Hann, Jimmy Swaggert and his low-rent prostitute doing pornographic acts while he watched, the meth snorting gay loving Ted Haggerty, Foley and his text messages to underage boys, this guy, Vetter wearing diapers for his prostitutes, Larry "Wide Stance" Craig, and on, and on.  There is something wrong deep inside with people who are so into telling others how to run their lives, and sooner or later we find out what it is.

[NicholeW.]

There's no doubt that the people you mention and more are as evil as the deepest evil they see and then some. They cloak their own evil under the guise of 'god's word' and then walk into the herd slaying and harming wherever they go. All the while they build their own fortunes and forget the rest.

But not all 'people telling others how to run their lives' are unexampledly evil. Some are misguided and others are as sincere and as well meaning as you are.

Would evil and deception were as easy to spot as simply saying 'all this is evil.' Or perhaps I just wish that the world were not such a complex system. Then easy-to-use paintbrushes would guide us through.

N~

[tekla]

I don't know how well meaning I am, but I do try not to tell others what their correct moral choices are - much less force those choices on them.  Nor do I suggest that the guy with the horns and pitchfork is going to cast them in a lake of fire for sex play, or doing drugs (though I am happy to tell people that in what I've observed drugs are pretty much hell on earth if you get in too far, and no, I don't know where you can get any).  Its no big secret that I think most of that religion stuff if hooey, a bunch of myths brought forward in time in order to prop up a corrupt power system, and that if there is a god, given what we now know, it going to be a lot bigger then what we had dreamed up before.  But no mind, if its out there, I'm content to let it do its job, and I'll do mine.  If gods a gonna judge, then, when that time comes, I will worry about it at that point - but not before.

Others may do as they will.  You want to start a church, go for it.  I'll even let you invite me to join, as long as you understand that I'm not going to come, choosing instead to stay home and study science or walk in the park.  But, what I do object to is people using the mechanisms and power of government to force compliance with some book a bunch of shepherds dreamed up back in the Bronze Age, and in the process making themselves rich and powerful, all the while not practicing a wit of it.

I see religious people (Franciscan monks and sisters mostly) all the time down where I work, and the good ones are feeding the hungry, giving clothes out, helping poor people, people on drugs, trying to stop us from killing each other, and that seems just - at the very least, it does seem to conform with their beliefs and teachings.  Funny, how those are not the people with a Rolex on their wrist, a private jet, and some TV show that does little but beg for money.  Funny, they are not out telling me I'm a sinner.  Or that I must believe.

In other news, Exorcisms are making a comeback in Europe.  (Oh this is going to end well.)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/02/12/MNT5V0A4P.DTL
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23103312

[RebeccaFog]

Bronze Age Shepherds will be touring this year between April and July.