Dear Senator Craig,
It seems you have run out of friends. Everyone is calling for your resignation, even the very people who stood by you through your many years in politics. I am not your friend either Senator, you are a Bush enabler. You are a person who has supported a war that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. You have torture, you have supported illegal wiretapping, and you have the supported bills that denied people just like you equal rights.
I never thought that I would see the day when there is a huge outcry for a fascist like you to resign and I find myself standing up to ask you to stay in office.
You see Mr. Craig, I am consistent in my view of justice and even though you are a hypocrite I do not think anything you did in that airport should be treated as a crime. Lewd behavior? I'm sorry but I never considered a person tapping their feet on the floor to be lewd behavior. Hell, I admit I had absolutely no clue what such a gesture meant before your ordeal and I certainly wouldn't have known what was going on had I entered that bathroom. But I wasn't in that bathroom Mr. Craig and I have yet to hear from anyone else who was. But the fact is that even if someone did walk in they would not be walking in on sex, they would be walking in on toe tapping and the vast majority of them would have no idea what it meant.
Despite this however we actually had an undercover cop patrolling our bathrooms for toe tappers. Now gay people flirting has become such threat to people's homophobic minds that we have undercover cops making sure that people don't flirt with others of the same sex. We don't have undercover cops out there to make sure that no heterosexual people flirt. If we did people would have to be very careful going to the bar and asking someone to dance, because that is in many cases a come on for sex every bit as much as toe tapping is. I don't think we have to worry about an undercover officer patrolling our dance floors looking for men flirting with women anytime soon though.
Let me be clear Senator, you are a hypocrite. You are a hypocrite who voted time and time again to restrict the rights of other people just like you. That is unforgivable and you should be deeply ashamed of yourself for that hypocrisy. But you should not be ashamed of your sexual orientation.
I don't want you to resign Senator. Instead I want you to pick up a microphone and tell the world who you are. I want you to stand up and tell them that you have feelings just like millions of other Americans, and those feelings are not feelings that should be criminalized. I want you to stand up and say you did nothing more than flirt with a man, you did not engage in any sexual activity with that man you merely flirted. And for that you are being prosecuted. I want you to ask out loud why we are prosecuting gay men for flirting, when it would be unimaginable to have an undercover cop patrolling for heterosexual flirting.
I know you won't take my advice though Senator. I know you will put in your resignation tomorrow because you are a coward and a hypocrite. You can not stand up for gay rights because you have spent your career voting for gay bashing legislation.
It is a great shame Senator, it is a shame that you are going to put in your resignation not because you committed a grave offense, but rather because you are a human who happens to be attracted to people of the same sex.
If you had an ounce of courage you would stand up and tell your party that you will not resign to please the homophobes. You would tell them that you are going to run for reelection and if they try to get you in the primary you would be sure to make their homophobia a national discussion. You would outline the contrast between how they are treating you and how they are treating David Vitter so everyone is reminded of just how intolerant they are.
You can still stand up for yourself Mr. Craig. You can, but you won't, and that is a true shame.
Sincerely,
A Citizen