# Another 'I'm not' Gay Republican Goes Down for the Count **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 1, 2007, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-im-not-gay-republican-goes-down-for-the-count/424932 "2007-11-01T22:16:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-im-not-gay-republican-goes-down-for-the-count/424932/1 "2007-11-01T22:16:10Z")
Another one!! Hahahahahahahaaaaa!!! When, oh, when will the hilarity ever end? Ow, my side! Heheh. Hypocrisy, thy name is Republican. Read more about the [hijinks here](http://www.columbian.com/news/localNews/2007/10/10312007_Report-Curtis-admitted-tryst.cfm) > [@The Columbian](#): > > State Rep. Richard Curtis, R-La Center, admitted to having sex with a man he met at an adult video store in Spokane last week, according to a police report released Tuesday afternoon. > > The police report offers a far different version of events from the brief account Curtis gave Monday to The Columbian, one that seems likely to threaten Curtis’ political future. > > The report is filled with graphic details of an encounter that began at a porn store on a Spokane Valley strip and concluded miles away in Curtis’ room at the city’s poshest hotel. Mods, I placed this here because I’m sure someone will once again attempt to justify the avalanche of opening closets careening like juggernauts down the Mount Everest of the hypocritical blackened souls of self-loathing Gay conservatives. Feel free to move at will. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-im-not-gay-republican-goes-down-for-the-count/424932/2 "2007-11-01T22:21:48Z")
[Relevant cartoon.](http://www.salon.com/comics/boll/2007/10/25/boll/index.html?source=rss&aim=yahoo-salon) ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-im-not-gay-republican-goes-down-for-the-count/424932/3 "2007-11-01T22:22:25Z")
This belongs in the Pit, if you ask me. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-im-not-gay-republican-goes-down-for-the-count/424932/4 "2007-11-01T22:27:38Z")
Hey, just because he cruises adult video stores for men and then has wild sex with them in a hotel room doesn’t mean he’s _gay_. Only Democrats are gay, it’s right there in the bible! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-im-not-gay-republican-goes-down-for-the-count/424932/5 "2007-11-01T23:21:48Z")
What’s Curtis’s record on gay rights on gay rights issue? ---
**Author:** ![dgrdfd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@dgrdfd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dgrdfd)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-im-not-gay-republican-goes-down-for-the-count/424932/6 "2007-11-01T23:28:09Z")
Mr. Moto? ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-im-not-gay-republican-goes-down-for-the-count/424932/7 "2007-11-01T23:29:14Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] What’s Curtis’s record on gay rights on gay rights issue? [/QUOTE] Well, from [this report](http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/337620_lawmaker01.html) … not so good. [QUOTE=Seattle PI] Elected to the state House in 2004, he voted in 2005 and 2006 against a bill that granted civil rights protections to gays and lesbians and in 2007 voted against a bill that created domestic partnerships for same-sex couples. [/quote] ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-im-not-gay-republican-goes-down-for-the-count/424932/8 "2007-11-01T23:31:32Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] What’s Curtis’s record on gay rights on gay rights issue? [/QUOTE] Just what you’d expect. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-im-not-gay-republican-goes-down-for-the-count/424932/9 "2007-11-01T23:47:43Z")
[QUOTE=Onomatopoeia] **Another ‘I’m not’ Gay Republican Goes Down for the Count** [/QUOTE] Does the Count return the favor? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-im-not-gay-republican-goes-down-for-the-count/424932/10 "2007-11-01T23:49:01Z")
If I were one of the 24%, or 29%, or whatevertheheck the percentage of cool-aid drinkers that still cling, like their mortal souls depend on it, to the Republican party’s bastardization of conservatism, I’d be freaking the heck out about now. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-im-not-gay-republican-goes-down-for-the-count/424932/11 "2007-11-01T23:58:42Z")
[QUOTE=Knorf] Well, from [this report](http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/337620_lawmaker01.html) … not so good. [/QUOTE] And this is yet another reason why I’ve come to view the conservatives as the “Do as I say, not as I do” party. I don’t mind gay politicians- what I do mind is hypocritical politicians. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-im-not-gay-republican-goes-down-for-the-count/424932/12 "2007-11-02T00:04:47Z")
[QUOTE=Onomatopoeia] If I were one of the 24%, or 29%, or whatevertheheck the percentage of cool-aid drinkers that still cling, like their mortal souls depend on it, to the Republican party’s bastardization of conservatism, I’d be freaking the heck out about now. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Dude, don’t turn your back on the Republican party! No, seriously, don’t turn your back on them. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-im-not-gay-republican-goes-down-for-the-count/424932/13 "2007-11-02T00:14:33Z")
I’m not at all surprised; in fact I think it’s cause and effect. The Republican party, as the haven of homophobia, attracts and promotes those that condemn homosexuality the loudest. Which will quite often be self hating/denying gays. If one had a gay-detecter, I think that you’d find that there are quite a few more gay Republican leaders than gay Democratic leaders. And you’d find more gay “family values” Republicans than, say, gay fiscal conservatives. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-im-not-gay-republican-goes-down-for-the-count/424932/14 "2007-11-02T01:21:23Z")
This, in my opinion, is indicative of the warped mindset of folks who not only believe the ridiculous notion that Gayness can be cured, are able to deny, with a straight face, their own homosexual proclivities, but relish castigating, condemning, and denying equal rights to those who are comfortable with their sexuality and are not ashamed to express it. Perhaps if social conservatives didn’t spend so much time exhibiting hatred toward anyone they perceive as different, overcompensating in their repression of their innermost desires, they wouldn’t be seen as the hypocrites they’ve quickly become. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-im-not-gay-republican-goes-down-for-the-count/424932/15 "2007-11-02T01:35:10Z")
[QUOTE=Lightnin’] And this is yet another reason why I’ve come to view the conservatives as the “Do as I say, not as I do” party. I don’t mind gay politicians- what I do mind is hypocritical politicians. [/QUOTE] Conservatism is not a party. The Republicans, erstwhile conservatives but in fact nothing of the sort, are a party. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-im-not-gay-republican-goes-down-for-the-count/424932/16 "2007-11-02T01:48:08Z")
[QUOTE=Airman Doors, USAF] Conservatism is not a party. The Republicans, erstwhile conservatives but in fact nothing of the sort, are a party. Thank you. [/QUOTE] Are you suggesting these recently outed “I’m not” gay Pubs are not True Scotsmen? ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-im-not-gay-republican-goes-down-for-the-count/424932/17 "2007-11-02T01:49:17Z")
[QUOTE=Airman Doors, USAF] Conservatism is not a party. The Republicans, erstwhile conservatives but in fact nothing of the sort, are a party. Thank you. [/QUOTE] If you wouldn’t call Republicans conservatives at least in social issues, I’m afraid of what you WOULD call conservative. I mean, what do you want them to do, man? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-im-not-gay-republican-goes-down-for-the-count/424932/18 "2007-11-02T01:52:14Z")
If this were a soap opera then we’d have long since passed any believability and be crying “Overkill! Not all homophobic conservative public figures are closet gays!” I’ve lost count. Let’s see Mark Foley Ted Haggard John Paulk Larry Craig Jim Bakker (not proven- lots of accusations, though) Rep. Allen (?)- the FL guy who offered to blow black men in a restroom because he said he was afraid of them) Jeff Gannon Matt Sanchez How many others are there? These were off the top of my head. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-im-not-gay-republican-goes-down-for-the-count/424932/19 "2007-11-02T02:03:03Z")
double post ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-im-not-gay-republican-goes-down-for-the-count/424932/20 "2007-11-02T02:06:06Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] If this were a soap opera then we’d have long since passed any believability and be crying “Overkill! Not all homophobic conservative public figures are closet gays!” I’ve lost count. Let’s see Mark Foley Ted Haggard John Paulk Larry Craig Jim Bakker (not proven- lots of accusations, though) Rep. Allen (?)- the FL guy who offered to blow black men in a restroom because he said he was afraid of them) Jeff Gannon Matt Sanchez How many others are there? These were off the top of my head. [/QUOTE] Sen. Lindsey Graham is sending out some serious vibes. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-im-not-gay-republican-goes-down-for-the-count/424932.md?page=2)