Pardon poor Larry Craig

Pardon poor Larry Craig
By Frank Rich

This article is about the recent problem senator Larry Craig from Idaho , had in a restroom at the airport in Minnesota . The fact was that this senator apparently was making sexual insinuations to a man that really was a policeman, he was not uniformed. Senator Craig made some signs with his hands and also stood in a ccertain way that let the other man (the policeman) that he wanted to have sex with him. He was arrested and now he is in serious risk of loosing his seat in the Senate of the United States.

My analysis of this article is that it touches so many aspects of human ethics that are very imoportant. To begin with it has a lot of blame to this man, every one has been feeling free to judge him guilty for doing inmoral acts in a public place, in fact he felt so guilty (PATHOS) that at first he confessed these acts and offered to abandon his political position, he was not assesed by a lawyer at that point. Moral values are very much important too, because homosexuality has never been openly accepted in our society and many times considered to be bad, even though the law in the United States does not consider anymore ilegal sex between two persons of the same sex if it is a consensual act between two adults, if we see from this point of view, he did nothing wrong, as the author says , the onle thing he could be condemned of is to be flirting , which is also very common in a gay bar for example. (Logos)
The article is based in a fact that is happening in the present, but could have repercusions in the future of the gay community.
The author also tells the opinion of other members from the gay community and tells us that this man has been used maybe as a political tool to talk against Republicans, and the hypocrisy not only in general population but also in the government, because in the last years many gay scandals have been in the news, also some other kind of sex scandals involving prositutes hired by politicians that defend the family and marriage as the center of our society. "Being in the closet" is still the conduct of many homosexual politicians, because unfortunately society does not accept them and would not let them have a successful political carrer. All these facts are demosnstrative of the hypocrisy taking place in the government of the United States according to the author. (Ethos)
In the next days there will be a hearing of the arguments of the senator thet will give the basis for deliberating and taking a decision, the decision is going to be at all levels, legal, political and to the public opinion that in some way will have to decide about the acts of the Governor, because a person may not agree with someone action but it doesnt mean necesarilly it is a law offense or make s him unsiutable for a public position.(Ethos)