It's Beginning To Feel Like A Twilight Zone Episode, Or A Kafka Novel

Senator Craig gets caught in a sting operation at an airport public restroom--started because of widespread lewdness there. As I mentioned yesterday, the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force issues a press release that says that the police shouldn't be trying to stop this kind of thing. An attempt to stop gay men from having anonymous sex on a public beach is termed "homophobia" and compared to the Holocaust. The ACLU challenges a Virginia law that prohibits anonymous sex in an adult bookstore (which is as much a public place as any other business subject to government regulation and laws) because it interferes with gays having sex. Ditto, for the ACLU's challenge to a conviction for sex in a public restroom because it interfered with homosexuals finding anonymous sex partners.

All of these actions show that this is a pretty widespread behavior--and that clearly, homosexuals and their advocates believe that it is sufficiently fundamental to homosexuality that they need to challenge laws against sex in public places because it interferes with homosexuals getting sex. (There's a constitutional right to have sex in public places. It's right after to the constitutional right to feel good about yourself. Look it up.)

But the mayor of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is now in deep trouble for having expressed his concerns about public restroom sex. From the August 28, 2007 South Florida Sun-Sentinel:

Fort Lauderdale - Mayor Jim Naugle's series of controversial comments about homosexuality cost him his seat Tuesday on the board that promotes Broward County to tourists.

County commissioners accused him of jeopardizing the area's multibillion-dollar tourism industry. They said Naugle forced them to take the unprecedented step of stripping him of the job when he ignored warnings to stop his attacks.

Since Naugle made his initial allegations about rampant gay sex in public restrooms nearly two months ago, the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau has been deluged with hundreds of angry e-mails from tourists. Some said they had canceled vacations, while others threatened to go elsewhere.

Which is it? Is Mayor Naugle being a bigot for saying that there is "rampant gay sex in public restrooms"? If so, why does the NGLTF and the ACLU seem to be in agreement?

Or is the problem that Mayor Naugle is saying something that most men over 25 already know? That there is a problem with this, and homosexual activists want to pretend otherwise? Or is this just a blatant attempt to use power to remind people that truth is not to be spoken? To paraphrase an old Quaker expression, Mayor Naugle needs to "speak truth to depravity."

I'm an adult. I would be disgusted if I walked into a public restroom and saw people having sex (even if it was a heterosexual couple). It isn't the right place for it. I certainly don't think that a kid should be seeing this--for whom this might be traumatic or at least emotionally troubling. But I guess that's just a sign of my homophobia.