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February 18, 2022 10:24 AM UTC

Ex-Sen. Larry Crowder Can't Handle Two Guys Kissing

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  • by: Colorado Pols
Dramatization.

Former GOP Sen. Larry Crowder of rural southern Colorado was a mixed bag of culture-warrior gaffes and foibles during his two terms in the Colorado Senate, punctuated by occasional moments of clarity like his vote to expand Medicaid coverage in 2013–the only Republican in the Colorado Senate to do so while the rest bemoaned the horrors of “Obamacare.”

And then he compared abolishing Columbus Day with the KKK. It’s necessary to take the good with the bad.

Last weekend, former Sen. Crowder made it clear for the record when asked by absolutely no one that he is not repeat not okay with increasingly common depictions in advertising of LGBT couples doing a…well, a thing that straight couples do all the time. No, not that thing:

Kissing, folks. Larry Crowder cannot abide the sight of two guys kissing.

Now, we can’t speculate about how much kissing former Sen. Crowder does in his private life, though for the other partner we imagine the experience is a lot like kissing a harbor seal. But we’re willing to bet that in addition to one commercial Crowder may have seen during coverage of the Winter Olympics that featured two guys kissing, there were half a dozen with heterosexual couples kissing or otherwise intimate that Crowder found perfectly normal–even stimulating. Never mind the exception most heterosexual men make for two women kissing, which is by comparison generally considered to be hot.

Let us politely suggest that Larry Crowder’s days of being stimulated either way should be over.

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12 thoughts on “Ex-Sen. Larry Crowder Can’t Handle Two Guys Kissing

  1. Quite a shame that he had to say this (particularly when not prompted).  When he was in the State Senate he had a basically-deserved reputation as one of the very few (if not the only) middle-of-the-road-reaching-across-the-aisle moderate Republicans serving in recent years.  

    Also, I'm pretty sure he's a resident of the San Luis Valley, not Otero County.  

    1. Rockhound is correct. Some years ago, one of those nasty "wise use" bills was on the Senate floor; a bill, calling for federal lands in Colorado to be turned over to the state, that had been drafted by the American Legislative Exchange Council and one of its smaller clones.

      The Republicans had an 18-17 majority that year. Senator Crowder crossed the aisle and voted with the 17 Dems, thus killing the bill.

      I don't give a flying f**k what his opinion is of "two guys kissing." When it counted, and that wasn't the only time, Senator Crowder stood up for our public lands.

  2. Oh, the sight of two men kissing upsets Larry delicate sensibilities?  What a shame.

    I wonder if he had any issues with the image of an over 60, fat, rich white guy laying underneath two full-bladder Russian prostitutes as they took a piss. Ah, but boys will be boys.

    Or whether Cowboy Larry has any problem with the same fat, rich guy years earlier as a middle-aged horndog appearing on the Howard Stern Show and fantasizing aloud about how he's like to have sex with his own daughter?

    But for two dudes kissing, the Cowboy doth protest too much, methinks. Maybe he needs a night out on the town. Start at Charlies on East Colfax and maybe end up at the Midtown Spa.

  3. One of the more disagreeable facets of the internet is giving voice to fucked up old bigots like this clown, quasi-human flotsam who long ago outlived any usefulness or relevancy he may once have had.

  4. There is not, and should not be, a thought or sexuality police. Strict religious fundamentalists might disagree, but their influence is declining. 

    You find n to be sexy / not sexy? Fine. Seek out a consenting adult to do n with. ( But don’t seek out those with less power than you to indulge your desire to do n upon their unconsenting bodies.)
     Do not use your physical power, nor your political power as a public figure, to shame , blame, or persecute those who do not agree with you about n. 

    I think Crowder fails at tolerance, not because of his personal aversion to men kissing, but because he uses his public forum to condemn it, and to condemn the advertisers and consumers who buy and sell products using that imagery.

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