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- Title: Disorderly Conduct: An Interrogation of Residual Sodomy Laws Five Years After Lawrence V. Texas.
- Author : Nebula
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 374 KB
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In Aug. 2007, Senator Larry Craig was arrested in the men's room at the Minneapolis Airport and was booked for violation of privacy and disorderly conduct for making sexual overtures toward an undercover police officer investigating complaints of lewd and lascivious behavior. The arresting officer observed Craig staring at him through the crevices in the bathroom stall, tapping his foot and sweeping his hand underneath the stall dividers. Craig swiftly pled guilty, hoping that the incident would remain concealed. After all, such charges seem rather innocuous. When his indiscretion was revealed, he initially elected to resign his Senate seat; however, the public denunciations by his colleagues and the media's obsession with the subject compelled him to change his mind and fight to overturn his guilty plea, which he claims was made under duress, all along vehemently denying in the media that he is gay and simultaneously parading his wife around in front of the news cameras. Craig's indiscretion was a sensation, inspiring the jokes and parodies of comedians, both professional and amateur and even a novelty toy, representing a bathroom stall with the Senator's feet protruding beneath the plastic partitions. Much of the related mirth seems justified because the Senator's persistent opposition to Gay Rights legislation, which includes voting for the 1997 Defense of Marriage Act that defined marriage as a bond between one man and one woman. Craig also hypocritically chastised Bill Clinton for his participation in the Monica Lewinski scandal, calling the embattled President a "bad boy" and supporting the Republican Congress's efforts to impeach the popular president. Craig's conservative and even prudish legislative record was antithetical to the recurring accusations that the Senator himself was engaging in homosexual activities, allegations dating back to the Reagan administration. Craig had even been unofficially implicated in the Congressional Page molestation scandal that destroyed the career of his Republican colleague from Florida.
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