Statman Details More Gay Enunters For Larry Craig - CBS News

Contents:

• STATMAN DETAILS MORE GAY ENUNTERS FOR LARRY CRAIG
• REMEMBERG LARRY CRAIG, THE ANTI-GAY SENATOR WHO TRIED TO BLOW A COP IN THE MNEAPOLIS AIRPORT
• LARRY CRAIG IS GAY
• 16 ANTIGAY LEARS EXPOSED AS GAY OR BI
• 5 MEN CLAIM GAY ENUNTERS WH LARRY CRAIG
• IDAHO SENATOR LARRY CRAIG BTED A GAY SEX STG. TWO REPORTERS HAVE DETAILS…
• SORRY I QU, SAYS ANTI-GAY SENATOR ARRTED AIRPORT TOILET
• CRAIG: I'M NOT GAY, DID NOTHG WRONG
• SENATOR LARRY CRAIG: 'I AM NOT GAY'
• FRANK'S GAYDAR TECTS CRAIG

STATMAN DETAILS MORE GAY ENUNTERS FOR LARRY CRAIG

Followg the tial report, The Statman quickly revealed that had done a months-long vtigatn to long-standg mors about gay enunters by Craig, only to hold onto the story followg an terview wh Craig and his wife. Today, The Statman reporterd that four more men have stepped forward to publicly clare they had gay enunters, although some of the enuters allegedly took place more than 20 years of the men, Mike Jon, claims that Craig paid him for sex late 2004 or early 2005, acrdg to The Statman.

REMEMBERG LARRY CRAIG, THE ANTI-GAY SENATOR WHO TRIED TO BLOW A COP IN THE MNEAPOLIS AIRPORT

I am here, however, to remd people of what a hypocril, eply flawed man Larry Craig is and how satisfyg was to watch his I’m not even talkg about how he voted agast a seri of pro-LGBT bills and for the 2006 amendment to the Idaho Constutn banng gay marriage and civil unns.

” Craig mailed his signed petn to the urt, and his petn to plead guilty to the mismeanor charge was accepted and filed by the urt on Augt 8, somehow still nied beg gay…“Craig nied the man’s acunt and said, “I am not gay and I have never been a rtroom Unn Statn havg sex wh anybody. Pl Internatnal Airport of those men was Craig, at the time a three-term Republin Senator wh a history of support for anti-gay polici — he voted favor of the ary's od Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy back 1993 (as did many Democrats, bears mentng), opposed same-sex marriage, domtic partnership benefs, and didn't want hate crim laws to ver sexual orientatn. Alex Wong/Getty Imag News/Getty ImagBasilly, as alleged by the police officer (and plead guilty to by Craig before he sperately tried to retract ), the oh-so-anti-gay Senator attempted to solic gay sex the airport bathroom.

But solicg sex a public rtroom is a fe no-no the legal sense, and the gay angle be pretty glarg when the culpr is a strintly anti-gay Senator his public life. Let me be clear: I am not gay, I never have been his post-arrt terview wh the officer, Craig claimed that his foot may have ma ntact wh the officer's bee he was "a pretty wi guy, " a ment that earned him a slightly different, damn-near brand nickname: Larry "Wi Stance" Happened To Him? This is the most tellg:A fifth gay man, who is om Boise but who cled to be named for fear of retaliatn, offered a recent and tellg acunt: He was a men's rtroom at Denver Internatnal Airport September 2006 when the man the next stall moved his hand slowly, palm up, unr the divir.

LARRY CRAIG IS GAY

Graham, for years and years mored to be gay, is shg the nfirmatn of a Supreme Court jtice who will likely le on challeng to the Obergefell marriage cisn that will undoubtedly curtail s spe, if not overturn entirely, as Jtic Alo and Thomas revealed last week as their goal.

16 ANTIGAY LEARS EXPOSED AS GAY OR BI

What will the ndidat do to ensure our rights are protected — the rights of the gay people, married the state of South Carola, ” asked Louis Yuhasz durg the bate. Years later Katie Dupere would wre her lumn, “The te story of Mattel accintally releasg a super gay Ken doll, ” “After the doll’s 1993 release, activist and wrer Dan Savage, who at the time was workg for queer-foced newspaper The Stranger, wrote a piece about the doll’s cidly “gay” look.

Their rints and all-Mlim town uncil said that the Pri flag — and homosexualy — clash wh their relig beliefs. Rearch shows that many ntent moratn programs block words like “lbian, ” “gay, ” or “sapphic.

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5 MEN CLAIM GAY ENUNTERS WH LARRY CRAIG

Not every antigay crackpot is actually gay, but there's no shortage of those who actually are.

Here are some hypocr who jt uldn't practice what they RekersThis antigay activist and founr of the Fay Rearch Council shocked the world 2010 when he was ught returng om a European vatn wh a male rt he found on He ially claimed he hired the man to rry his luggage bee he had jt had surgery and wasn't able to lift anythg.

IDAHO SENATOR LARRY CRAIG BTED A GAY SEX STG. TWO REPORTERS HAVE DETAILS…

Kg, who promoted bans on homosexualy andsex toys, was reportedly found bed wh the young man by Kg's wife. " He claimed he wasn't gay and acced the man, a paid rt, of extortn, but later told prosecutors he wanted the chang Murphy antigay advote and former print of the Young Republin Natnal Feratn was sentenced to six years prison after he was found guilty of sexual asslt for performg oral sex on an unwillg male after a 2007 private party for Republin supporters Indiana. BarclayAn antigay unty missner Cumberland County, Pa., Barclay rigned om his posn 2008 after beg ught hirg male prostut and g hidn meras to viotape at least 100 of the sexual enunters at his home.

Roy Ashburn me out 2010 after reports surfaced of him beg arrted for dnk drivg after partyg at a gay nightclub Sacramento. In prr years, Craig's antigay votg rerd had earned him praise om nservative groups such as the Amerin Fay Associatn and the Fay Rearch Council.

He plead guilty and paid a fe, then attempted unsuccsfully to whdraw the plea, all the time sayg he was not gay and had merely touched the officer accintally. Ed SchrockIn 2004, Republin Virgia ngrsman Edward Schrock sudnly whdrew om his race for a third term after allegatns arose that Schrock was secretly gay. Gay activist Mike Rogers's webse claimed Schrock had been rerd several years earlier g a telephone service on which men would place ads to arrange liaisons wh other men.

SORRY I QU, SAYS ANTI-GAY SENATOR ARRTED AIRPORT TOILET

Schrock, who never nfirmed the mors, had been opposed to lettg gay people serve the ary, sayg enliste should be queried on whether they've had homosexual experienc bee "You're the showers wh them, you're the bunk room wh them, you're staterooms wh them. Allen, who was nvicted and rigned his office, was known as one of the most homophobic policians Florida, havg sponsored a failed bill that would have creased the penalti for mtg "unnatural and lasciv acts. After leavg, the phone started rgg and Gibson's sister told Hkle's wife that her hband was gay, to which she rpond, "Please don't ll the police.

" Hkle nied beg gay and refed to rign his office, but he did not seek reelectn the followg year.

CRAIG: I'M NOT GAY, DID NOTHG WRONG

In an terview on rad statn Noti UNO, a reporter asked Arango, "Isn't time for you to state whether or not you are a homosexual?

" Makela was no iend to LGBT people, often railg agast homosexualy and sayg transgenr people are "aidg opportunistic sickos preyg upon children and others.

"Ted HaggardAntigay evangelil pastor Ted Haggard had a bad year 2006, when prostute Mike Jon claimed the pastor paid him for sex and did meth his prence. Haggard was subsequently fired om the Colorado church he had found 1984 and sce then has e to support marriage WilRepublin North Carola State Senate ndidate Steve Wil ed que the media buzz last year when his past life as a drag queen -- he was both a promoter for the Miss Gay Ameri pageant, as well as the man behd Miss Mona Sclair -- was brought to light the Wston-Salem Journal.

SENATOR LARRY CRAIG: 'I AM NOT GAY'

She placed her hand on the small of his back as he mataed he'd done nothg wrong, that he wasn't gay and that he'd mistakenly plead guilty to a mismeanor charge the bathroom se. Later me a tira of name-llg between herself and her hband, Jam McGreevey, who announced 2004 on live televisn that he was steppg down as ernor of New Jersey and that he was a "gay Amerin.

" Constant speculatn of a sham marriageThe Craigs, whom iends scribed Thursday as lovg and close, have been hound for years by speculatn that theirs is a sham marriage, signed to rail mors of the senator's homosexualy that date to the 1980s sex sndal volvg ngrsnal pag and e abe.

FRANK'S GAYDAR TECTS CRAIG

Five gay men, four of whom are willg to put their nam prt and whose allegatns n't be disproved, have e forward sce U. Larry Craig's guilty plea to say they had sex wh Craig, that he ma a sexual advance or paid them unual are tellg their stori now bee they are offend by Craig's nials, cludg his famo statement, "I am not gay, I never have been gay. C., who says Craig picked him up at a gay club 1986 and that they subsequently had Jon is a former prostute who told the world he had sex wh the Rev.

A fifth gay man, who is om Boise but who cled to be named for fear of retaliatn, offered a recent acunt: He was a men's rtroom at Denver Internatnal Airport September 2006 when the man the next stall moved his hand slowly, palm up, unr the divir. A member of the armed forc shall be separated om the armed forc unr regulatns prcribed by the Secretary of Defense if one or more of the followg fdgs is ma and approved acrdance wh procr set forth such regulatns: (1) That the member has engaged , attempted to engage , or soliced another to engage a homosexual act or acts unls there are further fdgs … that the member has monstrated that—(A) such nduct is a parture om the member’s ual and ctomary behavr; (B) such nduct, unr all the circumstanc, is unlikely to recur; … [and] the member do not have a propensy or tent to engage homosexual acts.

The Air Force, for stance, says any airman will be discharged if he “has engaged , attempted to engage , or soliced another to engage a homosexual act. Any gay soldier, sailor, airman, or Mare who admted to dog what Craig has admted would, at a mimum, lose his job for vlatg DADT. Most people thk “don’t ask, don’t tell” means that if you don’t announce that you’re gay, you n keep your job.