Bible Says: Craig Lied

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The Idaho Values Alliance–whose fortuitous juxtaposition on its website of articles praising Sen. Larry Craig’s pro-life voting record and warning of the dangers of homosexuality and airport restrooms I highlighted the other day–is now calling for Craig to resign his Senate seat (via Kornacki):

The Judeo-Christian tradition says that the standard for identifying the truth is that “by the mouth of two or three witnesses every fact is confirmed.” The senator’s guilty plea, when added to the officer’s testimony, satisfies the biblical standard for confirming the essential truth of what happened, and unless the senator can provide a compelling and convincing explanation for his plea, we will need to regretfully accept that the fact of his behavior has been established. It seems unlikely that he can “unring the bell” his guilty plea has sounded.

I’m sure the “ring the bell” double entendre was completely unintended (as was, by the way, the opening line of Craig’s press appearance yesterday: “Thank you all very much for coming out today . . .”).

In any event, the IVA isn’t stopping with Larry Craig. It won’t be satisfied until all homosexuals are run out of the GOP:

One larger issue must be addressed. The Republican Party platform clearly rejects the agenda of homosexual activists. The Party, in the wake of the Mark Foley incident in particular, can no longer straddle the fence on the issue of homosexual behavior. Even setting Senator Craig’s situation aside, the Party should regard participation in the self-destructive homosexual lifestyle as incompatible with public service on behalf of the GOP.

No member of the Republican Party in the 1860s could represent his party and be a slaveholder at the same time. Nor can the Republican Party of today speak with authority and clarity to the moral issues that confront our society and at the same time send ambivalent messages about sexual behavior. It is time for the Republican Party to be the party that defends the American family in word, deed, and by personal example.

Let the purges begin. Presumably, in addition to homosexuals, the GOP must be cleansed of the divorced, adulterers, abortion recipients, gamblers . . . the list goes on. Once you remove all the “sinners” from the Republican Party, the Democrats should hold a decided electoral advantage.

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