For GOP, affairs are OK if they aren't gay

September 5, 2007
For GOP, affairs are OK if they aren't gay

If you are a politician who wants to engage in an extramarital sex romp, the GOP is the place to be.

As long as you pick a lover of the opposite sex and keep the number of liaisons discreetly low, fellow Republicans won't rush to oust you.

But know this: Should there be even a whiff of homosexual goings-on, you're toast.

Gay Blogger: The Most Feared Man on the Hill

September 4, 2007
Gay Blogger: The Most Feared Man on the Hill

Larry Craig wasn't "the first on my list," the gay blogger says. And the Idaho senator, who announced his resignation Saturday, "won't be the last."

Rogers, sitting on a club chair in his Northwest Washington apartment, is basking in the attention. For three years now, he's been a feared one-man machine, "outing," he says, nearly three dozen senior political and congressional staffers, White House aides and, most damagingly, Congress members on his blog. On Capitol Hill, a typical phone call from Rogers -- "Are you gay?" he'd ask -- is "a call from Satan himself," says a former high-ranking congressional staffer whose name is on the list.