>He ain't goin' to jail, he's goin' back to Idaho. <

This has been bothering me. If his conduct wouldn't justify a fifty dollar fine or whatever, does it justify destruction of career, reputation and family? As I said, I think it may be fair to take one's suspicions into the privacy of the voting booth, but to be pilloried and shamed forever by the word of a crapper cop. . . .

I'm also unclear about the hypocricy thing. I know nothing of this gentleman. If he has said things such as men who lay with men should burn in hell, or sodomy should be a crime, then all right that is reasonably clear. The impression I get, however, is that many vocal gay rights advocates would like to have a standard that any man who has ever touched another man's thingie is required to support each and every plank in the platforms of every self-named advocacy group, which isn't logical. The issues stand on their own merits as the laws apply to all members of the population.