Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga) is not gay. That’s what he says. Of course, that R in the parentheses tends to be a red flag of dishonesty. But we’ve got no indication that he is. No former lovers have made statements. No photos have surfaced.
It’s just something he said and, of course, we know politicians often say things which were not intended as factual statements, or which were merely intended as humor. Republican politicians, mostly. Our side doesn’t have a spotless record either, but if we were keeping score, it wouldn’t be close.
Saxby Chambliss
What he said, as a colorful and humorous way of saying he does not support legalizing gay marriage, was “I’m not gay, and I’m not going to marry one.” The thing is, that sounds like a Freudian Slip to me. I’ve heard guys say “It’s not gay to get sucked as long as you’re not doing the sucking” and “it’s not gay if you’re on top.” It seems to me that Saxby Chambliss has just raised the bar a little bit, given himself a bit more wriggle room, so to speak. “It’s not gay if you don’t marry them.” So, he can have all the clandestine gay encounters he wants, as long as he doesn’t get too attached.
Now, it might be a bit of a leap of logic, a bit of careless character assassination, to assume someone is gay just because they said they weren’t, but there is that R after his name and a long history of people with R after their name, who are big morality crusaders while in the halls of government, and at night they are getting blow jobs from scary black men in the rest room of a Florida park.
There was Mark Foley, who was sending erotic e-mail to high school kids, discussing methods of masturbation and other topics pertinent to the running of government. There was Ted Haggard, outed by his meth dealer. Then, of course, there was toe-tapping Larry Craig, the men’s room goblin of the Minneapolis airport. And let us not forget their patron saint, the granddaddy of them all, J. Edgar Hoover.
Oh, yes, the list is long and illustrious. I’m not sure if Saxby Chambliss’ name is on it or not. But, if it is, he would fit right in.
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