In 1997, on the cover of Time magazine, actress Ellen Degeneres outed herself: "Yep, I'm gay," read the headline.It had to be a wrenching decision, but at least she had the balls to do what men like Larry Craig, Mark Foley and Ted Haggard never will: to say this is who I am, take me or leave me.
That's the real legacy of the unfolding Larry Craig scandal: not that he's another in a long line of pathetic, disturbed hypocrites, but that he's another in a long line of gays taking cover in an anti-gay party.
Update: Gail Collins says it better:
Republicans . . . are not in the mood to have a thoughtful discussion about how much the demonization of homosexuality tortures God-fearing conservatives who find their sexual impulses at war with the party line. Or to sponsor an interesting debate on whether a man who pleads guilty to waving his hand under a toilet stall is worse than a man who, say, once pleaded guilty to drunken driving. . . . The party’s Senate leadership, having finally found a use for the Ethics Committee, has ordered up an investigation. (Thank heavens we didn’t distract them with Ted Stevens’s finances.)
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