Compassion for the Hypocrite

No, I have no sympathy, emphathy or compassion for hypocrites, especially of the lying, republican, homophobic, hate-mongering variety.

But in response to Larry Craig's interview this week with Matt Lauer, Andrew Sullivan wrote a provocative column about the social pressure and cultural distortions that create a self-hating creature like Larry Craig.

If you want an argument for why the cause for gay visibility, dignity and equality is necessary and indeed noble, just watch that interview again.
Craig was seeking in that toilet stall a connection, a shard of intimacy, that the world would not give him, or that he could not give himself. No one should have to live without that intimacy and dignity - no one. Living a life like that - a deeply lonely, compromised, painful interior existence - is a very sophisticated form of hell. No human can keep it up for ever. No human should have to keep it up for ever.

Read the whole thing.

Cross-posted at BlueGrassRoots.