The only thing I can think of is that he IS a gay guy, feels bad about it, and found a plea as a way to rid himself of some guilt.
Read this arrest report--nothing criminal at all--not even any probable cause.
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I was having a conversation with a friend about this and we seemed to think the root "problem" in Sen. Craig’s life was the "apparent" hypocrisy. (I’ll try to refrain from jumping to conclusions about the situation, while still acknowledging the actions seem consistent with a closeted homo-sexual living as an outspoken homophobe.)
As Patrick pointed out there was certainly nothing “criminal” about Sen. Craig’s actions as reported by the arresting officer. Rude and situationally inappropriate, maybe . . . but criminal, no. I’ve had the fine mistiming to walk into a public restrooms where a straight couple were “making the most” of the “privacy” afforded by the bathroom stalls . . . Once again, inappropriate. However, I would not personally consider them criminal.
His real problem stems from the implication that so much of “what he stands for”, is built on an illusion. Soren Kierkegaard put it this way, “Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.”
It appears to me to be one man’s struggle with his “shadow.” My mother was a counselor when I was going up and fan of Carl Jung. She brought me up with an awareness of his theory of “shadow.” Shadow being that part of one’s self which they are not prepared to “own.” Jung felt the surest way to trouble was to ignore or suppress your shadow . . . pretend that it isn’t how you really feel. This almost always backfires in inconvenient ways. Instead a healthy person tends to work with these feelings and attempt to integrate them back into their “self” while attempting to say within the boundaries of decency and the law.
So if one finds oneself experiencing homosexual feelings and there is absolutely no acceptable personal paradigm which can allow this . . . well, you are in for a rocky life of self-loathing. These people tend to strike out at what they hate about themselves in the world that surrounds them. They try so hard to just ignore and suppress their shadow by doing “right”, but almost invariably they cannot sustain the pressure.
Notable cases of this from recent news stories would be Ted Haggard (Head of National Association of Evangelicals), Rep. Foley (FL Page Scandal) and probably all the Catholic Priests that made the news. All of them appeared to be working VERY diligently to suppress their true feeling, rather than finding a healthy way of dealing with them.
At this point we should ask . . . what are we doing as a society . . . with our norms . . . which drives these people to hate themselves so virulently that there is NO way for them to feel OK with who they feel they are.
In the end, what will ruin this man’s life is not a crime per se, but his hypocrisy. I would say in the end, it might have been better if he had just been gay. At least then, he would have been real.
"The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we appear to be." Socrates
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." Mahatma Gandhi
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