Reply #17: All politicians touch people!!!!!

[IndianaGreen]

By the standard the rightwingers used on Rev. Robinson, all politicians are just as guilty of "pressing the flesh."

My concern is that David Lewis was "uncomfortable" just by the act of innocent touching by an openly gay person. This tells volumes about David Lewis's personal issues with gay people. Lewis's own fears about gays are quite evident in his own statement that being touched by another man ``presumed a far greater familiarity or intimacy than was the case'' between the two men. I wonder if Mr. Lewis finds it difficult to even shake hands with a gay person.

I thought the allegation was a smear based on its timing, and the PR role played by Bary Bauer's rabidly homphobic Family Research Council on the TV networks.