Gay-baiting, and mendacity about one's gay-baiting, are a pretty
good signal of overall moral laxity, as demonstrated in this
story of a former top Bush domestic aide accused of a series of
petty thefts:
Claude A. Allen, who resigned last month as President Bush's top domestic policy adviser, was arrested this week in Montgomery County for allegedly swindling Target and Hecht's stores out of more than $5,000 in a refund scheme, police said.... [Allen's lawyer] said he feels confident that Allen will be able to prove that the incidents were "a series of misunderstandings."
Allen stirred controversy as Helms's campaign spokesman in 1984 by telling a reporter that then-Gov. James B. Hunt Jr.-Helms's opponent-was politically vulnerable because of his links to the "queers." He later explained that he used the word not to denigrate anyone but as a synonym for "odd and unusual."
Sounds like one queer bird.
-- Stephen H. Miler