You know, as I was reading the news, and, I admit, chuckling smugly, (sorry, but I have to have fun every now and then!) it occurred to me that our presumptions about this whole thing might be wrong...

When it comes to these Homo/Homophones like Ted Haggard and Mark Foley just to name the most recently prominent ones, we normally take the somewhat Freudian view that these men are closeted homosexuals who repress their desire, which manifests itself in the form of an over-reaction, homophobia.

But I wonder, couldn't it be the other way around? Could years of horror at homosexuality and crusading against gays breed in these men an insatiable curiosity? Now to be clear, I don't think that homophobia could make a person gay, but I certainly think it could make a person very very curious...

Oh, and thanks Marszal, for putting together a nice retrospective on the Republican homo-homophobes of the year. If it weren't for clipmarks, there would be too many for me to remember them all!