The crime of the tapping feet  U.S. Sen. Larry Craig, a
Republican of Idaho, may well be guilty of the moral hypocrisy
all too infuriatingly typical among today's smug professed
social conservatives.  He has compiled a near-perfect voting
record from evangelical religious groups that spout supposed
family values and presume to judge harshly those who live by
more liberal values.  He has stood steadfast against allowing
gays to marry.  Now circumstantial evidence arises that he may
possess gay sexual proclivities of his own and that he has
acted, or attempted to act, on gay sexual urges.  It is possible
that a man could have gay instincts on which he at times acts
while disapproving and feeling ashamed of those instincts and
actions.  It is possible he could honestly believe that gayness
is wrong and ought not to be sanctioned with marriage.  What's
tragic -- beyond hatred for and discrimination against gay
people -- is that some people are so weak, so tormented, so
bedeviled, so ashamed and so imprisoned by s