The disgraced Senator from Iowa admitted pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct in a Minnesota airport men's room on August 28th, 2007. The police allege he attempted to solicit sex from an undercover police officer.

Craig is a right-wing Republican who voted for the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), has been a vocal supporter of anti-gay bills, and supports a Constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.

Within days, Republican allies became foes calling for his resignation; Craig acquiesced by the coming Saturday and promised to step down effective September 30th, 2007.

Yet this week Craig returns as he has decided to fight the conviction to which he had previously plead guilty.

I applaud this decision. For Craig is a victim of an overzealous, homophobic system fueled by anti-sex hysteria. What crime has Craig committed here? He did not have sex in public and he did not expose himself to the arresting officer. What happened with the toe-tapping and finger-wagging was nothing more than flirtation. Fair is fair and Craig committed no crime. It is pure homophobia to treat homosexual flirtation in a public space as “lewd behavior” while heterosexual flirtation remains protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution as free speech. Indeed a right given to all Americans, so long as you're not gay.