Re: shameless Dems pander on “sex crimes”
On Sep 30, 2006, at 6:01 PM, B.K. DeLong wrote:
For a fifty-year old congressman having an explicitly sexual
conversation with a kid who works for him, even after he claims to
be underage), while perhaps not a shocking sex crime….certainly
creepy and incredibly inappropriate for a congressman….
Creepy and inappropriate. yeah, but it’d be nice if it all made us
think about sexual repression & hypocrisy. The guy’s gay, be he
couldn’t reveal that because it would ruin him politically - and to
prove himself not sexually suspect, gets invovled in child predator
politics. “We watch our library books more closely than sexual
predators,” said he, even though their names are all over the web.
Actually I don’t think hypocrisy is the right word, since the whole
moralizing set-up seems almost to require a secret life of sin, as a
condition of possibility or something.. Prostitution and traditional
morality go hand in hand, just like vows of celibacy and altar-boy lust.
Doug