Wow. I have to agree with HardRCafe here. (First time that's ever happened..)
The issue here isn't that Craig is a homosexual or not, it's that he commited a crime - to which he pled Guilty, as a representative of the people who is supposedly in charge of writing and upholding the laws. It shows he - at best - a complete hypocrite (and that's not even mentioning his gay rights positions) and at worst completely and utterly unfit for public office.
Every politician who commit a crime should resign and be forced to leave, but what would happen to congress then?
If Vitter can stay in the Senate, then Craig obviously should be able to.
I personally think that neither Craig nor Vitter did anything worthy of resignation...neither committed a felony, nor did they abuse the power of their office, nor did their sexual escapades get in the way of them doing their job.
Vitter shouldn't be allowed stay in the Senate. The fact that he is shows the levels of hypocrisy which blanket the whole issue (if he had visited a male prositute he would certainly be gone by now... no?).
The fact is this:
- Both Vitter and Craig were public representatives, elected by the people who carry out the functioning of the country and it's legal code.
- While being a representative both men broke the legal code they are supposed to, as public representatives, uphold and protect (and write.)
- So yes what they did very much "get in the way of them doing their job" as their job is to, among other things, write and protect the laws - the laws which they just broken, the laws which no doubt Larry Craig at least help implement.
- And if you can't see something wrong with that.... well... then. The fact that what he did was sexual in nature is irrelevant to this, except that the media love these types of stories and thus gets blown totally out of proportion.. but hey there isn't like a problem in the Stock market or a war in Iraq, so I guess the media must be running out of things to report..
Oh please - these are joke laws! Completely inconsequential 'crimes', like jaywalking or speeding.
Of course it is serious because it is such a human rights abuse that these things could be criminalized, but regardless, Craig's conviction should be ignored by reasonable people. However, he represents a bunch of gay-hating troglodytes, so he's out.
