[Loosely lampooning this article which has appeared on the front page of Republican’t mouthpiece the Washington Post:

ON THE REPUBLICAN’T FRONT
Foes Use Lott’s Gay Hooker Ties to Fuel Rumors About Him

By funnyfarmer - blogger incredulous that this was approved and allowed to be published on the front page of the newspaper right after the Giuliani scandal came out - almost as if they had to distract the public from the important news of the day!

Friday, November 30, 2007

In his speeches and often on the Internet, the part of Sen. Trent Lott’s biography that gets the most attention is not his continuing racist remarks, but his connections to the gay hooker world.

Since abruptly resigning his position as a US Senator five years before his term ends, Trent, a member of a sanctimonious group of holier-than-thou Republican’ts, has had to address assertions that he is gay or that he had purchased the services of a gay hooker while condemning gays in general and the gay lifestyle in particular. While he publicly proclaims to practice a form of christian religion, Trent’s itinerary did occasionally coincide with known male sex workers during his time as a representative of american taxpayers.

Despite his denials, rumors and e-mails circulating on the Internet continue to allege that Trent (R-MS) is gay, a closeted denier and persecutor of his fellow homosexuals, and that, if he continued to serve in the US Senate, his sexual preferences would be exposed, when the results of investigations in the matter become public.

In Senate appearances, Trent regularly condemns the ‘deviant behavior’ involved with same-sex relationships, and promotes legislation that would criminalize sexual activity between members of the same sex. Trent invokes these opinions as part of his case that he is a gawdly christian, and that he would literally bring hellfire and damnation on earth to the gawdless sodomites in america.

Trent was born and spent his childhood in Mississippi, and he talks more about his southern roots than he does about the possibility of being the latest Republican’t Senator to be publicly outed as a hypocrite in his private life.

“I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country followed our lead, we wouldn’t have all these problems over all these years, either.” he told the crowd at Strom Thurmond’s birthday party. He was subsequently selected as Minority Whip by the Republican’ts in 2006.

While considerable attention has focused on the ongoing racist remarks by Lott (R), polls have also shown rising hostility toward homophobes in politics. It is not clear whether that negative sentiment will affect someone who has consorted with a male prostitute but claims he does not engage in homosexual acts. He was quoted about gays in the Associated Press:

“It [homosexuality] is [a sin]….You should try to show them a way to deal with that problem, just like alcohol…or sex addiction…or kleptomaniacs.”

In a push poll by Gozby, 69 percent of respondents said they would be less likely to vote for a candidate for any office who is gay, compared with 89 percent who said that about an atheist candidate and 36 percent who said the same for someone who is an evangelical christian.

Lott has angrily disputed the initial stories suggesting that he has engaged in homosexual acts, and the Republican’t Party has had numerous spokespeople speak out, vouching for the candidate’s family values. Aware that questions about his sexuality and his abrupt departure from the senate remain issues, Lott has also denied a separate charge: that he acknowledged the Republican’ts have been obstructing legislation in the current Congress. This charge stemmed from a direct quote from Lott earlier this year.

“The strategy of being obstructionist can work or fail … and so far it’s working for us.” he is quoted as saying, according to Roll Call in April.

Over the past twenty years, Lott has hidden his sexual preferences, and been a steadfast adherent of the Republican’ts southern strategy for decades, where his party panders to white voters and suppresses all others. And recently rumors that his devastated property from hurricane Katrina was given preferential treatment and inflated compensation swirled once again. But his racist

An early rumor about Lott’s sexuality came from bigheadDC, an internets site devoted to the Beltway. The bigheadDC post said “One of the politicos Big Head DC has learned [Lott’s gay escort] he’s alleged to have been involved with is the married Sen. Trent Lott, 66, who unexpectedly announced his retirement on Monday. Lott is well-known to have been against a plethora of gay rights issues throughout his terms in Congress. He was also good friends with Sen. Larry Craig throughout his time in Congress..” He attributed these details to background information he collected during his investigations into the matter.

After Lott’s people denied the rumor, an intertubes political commenter, said Lott’s “hypocrisy and persecution of his own kind was to be the issue, not so much his sexuality,” and he suggested that the source of the gay rumor was a rival Republican’t. The Republican’ts denied the charge.

Numerous online sites published on their Web sites satirical posts deriding the allegedly gay senator. One of them was titled “Whole Lott O’Love (Brief Refrain)”

Liberal bloggers have occasionally repeated the rumor, with many noting Trent’s “background” with “wide stance” Larry Craig for years, and others saying that it wouldn’t surprise them at all. Others repeatedly claim that Larry Flynt might be outing him in Hustler magazine any day now.

“The gays have said they plan on destroying the U.S. from the inside out,” says one comment that was posted recently on a blog, by a Lott supporter who warned of an attempt to “Swift Boat” the senator. “What better way to start than at the highest level, through a Senator of the United States, one of their own!”

A BS News poll in August showed that a huge number of voters said they did not know Lott’s sexuality, but among those who said they did, 5 percent thought he was gay, while only 16 percent cared about it at all.

“The underlying point is that if you can somehow pin gay hypocrisy on him, that would be a fatal blow,” Hooper said. “It’s offensive. It speaks to the rising level of anti-gay feeling in our

Editors’ Note: this entry has been cross-posted at the Funny Farm]