Troy King, Lawful Homosexual Republican

[tongodeon]

Alabama Republican Attorney General Troy King was recently caught by his wife in their bed having sex with a male aide. I was a little worried that my prediction came one month early but I realized that he's not a republican gay sex offender, but merely a closeted gay Republican who wants to ban homosexuality. There's no law against that, so he

Comments

[matrushkaka]

Isn't sodomy illegal in Alabammy?

[kasplode]

"gay:republican::???:???"

[zadcat]

I think it was you, tongodeon, who made a point somewhere that a reason these men might support anti-gay laws is that they imagine that most other men are like themselves - maintaining a straight front while suppressing or covertly acting out their true gay natures (and presumably they feel that if there isn't legal or at least social pressure, society will implode as the vast majority of men throw aside their repressions and shag each other).

I thought it was a good point, anyway, and wondered if you could remind me whether it was yours, and where you posted it.

[tongodeon]

That wasn't me, although it's a good point. I was saying something about how gay people are everywhere and if you base your party platform on denying gay people the freedom to be who you are, the gay people in your group will act out in crazy, desperate, and scandal-making ways.

[flwyd]

Specifically regarding their opposition to gay marriage, I think it makes a lot of sense. They enjoy having sex with men, but they want that relationship to stay sexual; they don't want it to turn into a long-term situation of mutual care and cohabitation. I suspect the guys mentioned in tongodeon's gay:republican tag view their sexual experiences with men in a similar way that Elliot Spitzer viewed his sexual experiences with prostitutes. The sex is good, but it's just sex. And if intimate connections between men are purely sexual, there's no need to let men marry men. Perhaps they worry that if gay marriage was legal, their sexual partners might want partnership in other parts of their life.

[mmcirvin]

I think the majority of anti-gay cultural conservatives are coming at it from the opposite direction: it's really easy to condemn people for a "vice" that you don't have any inclination toward yourself. But the most extravagant crusaders against gayness often seem to be closet cases of some sort. One of the clues is the statement to the effect that gay sex is so much more pleasurable and enticing than the straight type that no man would forgo it without rules.

(edited to add scare quotes...)