Family Values!

By Baxter

We don't understand why right-wing Republicans are so critical of gay people's lives when their own folks behave so badly.

Case in point: U.S. Representative Vito J. Fossella, Republican of Staten Island, who recently was not only arrested for drunk driving but who also has had to admit to an extramarital affair — and an illegitimate daughter.

Memo to the Republican leadership: Why is this okay?

We liberal Democrats, gay and straight alike, just want to make our own way in life without infringing on other people's rights. So, why do you guys huff and puff about family values and attempt to desecrate the Constitution with discriminatory "marriage amendments" — when the guys on your side of the aisle are wantonly fornicating and, oh, by the way, endangering other people from behind the wheel?

Just wondering.

In the meantime, we HISS at Representative Fossella for his hypocritical silliness. (We also are breathlessly waiting for the Republicans in the House to promote him to some leadership position. Obviously, he's following in the footsteps of such fine, upstanding Americans as Newt Gingrich, Bob Livingston, and Bob Barr.)