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Sen. Larry Craig and STDs

Saturday, September 15 at 2:00 PM

Franki Rader, no hometown listed, writes:

In all the letters about Larry Craig, Vetter and others, who have been outted, and have their wives standing beside them, no one has mentioned the risk of STD that these men are taking home to their Families. Meeting men in bathroom stalls and roadside parks is a good way to get killed.
How can these wives and children stand behind them, don’t they know they were betrayed in the most humilating way?
My guess is that the wives knew about this but made a pact to stick by them for the children’s sake and for the finiancal support. They probably weren’t having sex so they weren’t worried about diease.

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READER COMMENTS

As usual, those obsessed with sex, view everything through that prism. While Mr. Rader is correct in pointing out the dangers of anonymous sex, be it heterosexual or homosexual, that was not the issue with Senator Larry "Wide Stance" Craig. What was at issue was that of hypocrisy in a public official. Any attempt to divert from that is to do disservice to the central issue.

Posted by Robert I. Laitres on September 16, 2007 01:40 PM