By Christopher Cook

Like American blacks and Jews, homosexuals are another group of people who tend to vote for the Democrats in reflexively large percentages. And, if one is thinking solely about "gay issues," they may have reason to do so. However, I wonder how many people who are gay have taken note of the fact that Democrats will take off on homosexuals and homosexuality when it suits them politically. They do it with a touch of plausible deniability, but they send a message nonetheless.

If you are gay, and you are a Democrat, and there is a prostitution ring being run from your residence, it's no big deal. And your homosexuality is not an issue.

If you are gay, and you have gay sex with 17-year-old congressional pages, you keep your job and get reelected multiple times. And your homosexuality is not an issue.

If you are gay, and you are Republican, and you send inappropriate text messages to a page, the Democrats and the press hound the issue incessantly, to make the most political hay possible. Americans are generally tolerant, but they tend to feel a bit of generalized distaste when they're actually forced to imagine gay sex. The press plays it up and up, to capitalize on this phenomenon. Same thing with Larry Craig. That what he did was illegal and disruptive to public decency is ONLY an issue to the Democrats because he is a Republican. Had he been a Democrat, this would have been a part of his protected and "celebrated" lifestyle.

As long as you're a Republican, your gayness becomes a weapon in the Democrats' political arsenal.

Well, while reading Redstate today, I followed a link to a very interesting article about the past. Apparently, no less a neo-leftist operative than Bill Moyers was once tasked to dig up this kind of "dirt" against the Barry Goldwater campaign:

Only a few weeks before the 1964 election, a powerful presidential assistant, Walter Jenkins, was arrested in a men's room in Washington. Evidently, the president was concerned that Barry Goldwater would use that against him in the election. Another assistant, Bill Moyers, was tasked to direct Hoover to do an investigation of Goldwater's staff to find similar evidence of homosexual activity. Mr. Moyers' memo to the FBI was in one of the files.

When the press reported this, I received a call in my office from Mr. Moyers. Several of my assistants were with me. He was outraged; he claimed that this was another example of the Bureau salting its files with phony CIA memos. I was taken aback. I offered to conduct an investigation, which if his contention was correct, would lead me to publicly exonerate him. There was a pause on the line and then he said, "I was very young. How will I explain this to my children?" And then he rang off. I thought to myself that a number of the Watergate figures, some of whom the department was prosecuting, were very young, too.

With a self-righteous political ideology in charge of our entertainment, media, academic institutions, and one of the two major political parties, morality, legality, and rightness are not determined by anything other than whether your name is followed by an (R) or a (D).