Yet another vociferous anti-gay politician turns out to be gay himself. I speak of the attorney general of the former Confederate state of Alabama, Mr. Troy King. Last month, Wonkette reported that King had been caught in flagrante with a tender, youthful male aide by his wife, in their marital bed no less; this alleged event occurred in the couple's house in Montgomery, the very capital of Jefferson Davis's renegade racist confederacy.
Incidentally, former senator from neighboring Mississippi and one-time Republican majority leader of the U.S. Senate, Trent Lott, once said that the American political leader he "felt the closest to" was Jefferson Davis. Ain't contemporary Republican politics grand? One can only imagine how Republican leader of the Union Abraham Lincoln would have reacted to that sentiment. Oh, and speaking of Republican presidents, we should probably note that General King was the Alabama state chair for the campaign of Republican presidential aspirant John McCain (the Pensito Review website has reported that McCain's website was "scrubbed" of King's name soon after the Wonkette posting).
The anti-gay family values politician who is clandestinely indulging in the Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name (within the Republican Party, anyway) is becoming a predictable stereotype. King has called homosexuality "the downfall of society" and once wrote that AIDS could be cleansed from America, "if this nation's current purveyors of perversion would refrain from committing sodomy." The most notorious recent example of the gay anti-gay Republican hypocrite is, of course, Idaho Senator Larry Craig, who ungraciously provided the title for our guide to Republican family values. According to his hometown newspaper, the Idaho Statesman, the long time Republican federal legislator once told one of his male lovers, as he quickly ushered him out of the house after the completion of a sexual congress: "Just remember, you don't know me."
In my introduction to You Don't Know Me: A Citizen's Guide to Republican Family Values, "Their License To Do Ill," I reference a study by Henry E. Adams et al. published in a 1996 issue of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, "Is Homophobia Associated with Homosexual Arousal?" To quote from the study: a subject group of men "were exposed to sexually explicit erotic stimuli consisting of heterosexual, male homosexual, and lesbian videotapes...Only the homophobic men showed any increase in penile erection to male homosexual stimuli." Enough said?
COMING SOON! Alabama Attorney General Troy King's resolve to quash the dangerous Killer Rabbit by enforcing his state's ban on the sale of sex toys.