So I’m listening to an NPR “All Things Considered” segment about the Foley scandal that features an interview with a man named Paul Weyrich, the author of the Arlington Group’s letter that called for House Speaker Dennis Hastert’s resignation. The Arlington Group is a coalition of 70 socially conservative organizations. Their letter focuses only on Foley’s egregious error in judgement, but in the NPR interview, Weyrich veers off course and says that Foley should have been forced to resign years ago solely because he’s gay.

(Link here: Conservative Groups Call for Accountability on Foley)

Weyrich: It has been known, uh, for many years that congressman Foley was a homosexal. Uh, homosexuals tend to be preoccupied with sex. The idea that he should be continued, or should have been continued, as chairman for the Committee on Missing and Exploited Children, given their knowledge of that is just outrageous.

NPR: Now before we go on, I think I can say Mr. Weyrich, that there are a lot of people out there who will take exception to the statement that all homosexuals are preoccupied with sex.

Weyrich: Well, I don’t care if they take exception to it, it happens to be true. I mean, uh-

NPR: That is your opinon?

Weyrich: It’s not my opinion. It is the opinion of many psychologists and psychiatrists who have to deal with them.

Oh man, is that ever true. Everyone knows that heterosexual men never think about sex. I mean, remember when Bill Clinton wouldn’t do anything sexual with an intern? Or Arnold Schwarzenegger, who refused to touch a woman he didn’t know? And all those poor rap artists forced to put half-naked women in their videos? I remember that Barbara Walters interview with Nelly where he just cried and cried because he said he just wanted to take a walk in the park with a pretty girl, not flip her over and all fours and pour a $3,000 bottle of champagne all over her naked body. And what about those poor single men forced to go to strip clubs against their will? And Howard Stern, who made a fortune off of inviting elementary school teachers and elderly nuns on his program to read excerpts from The Grapes of Wrath to eunuchs? And the porn industry, man is that business struggling. And all those millions of men who don’t cheat on their girlfriends or wives on business trips? And what about women? Women never cheat on their husbands/boyfriends either. What about that TV show Platonic Hand Holding in the City that was so popular? And of course, we all love Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp because of their winning personalities. And remember when STDs went away because no one was doing it anymore? And there were no unwanted children conceived drunkenly in restaurant bathrooms? Everyone knows that God just added the commandment about not committing adultery in there as a freebie, since it’s something that no one has ever been tempted to do. I think he just put it in there to round out the commandments to 10. I know that I personally have never been hit on or propositioned or catcalled as I walked down the street. Sometimes I watch movies and television and I wonder if anyone in this country is getting laid anymore. We’re all just so…uninterested in the topic. Well, except for the gays.

Thursday, October 5th, 2006 @ 5:16 pm General, Politics, the Right, the Stupid
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