Sometimes, Occasionally, VERY Occassionally, Andrew Sullivan is Right

This time writing about Larry Craig's self delusion.

Craig was seeking in that toilet stall a connection, a shard of intimacy, that the world would not give him, or that he could not give himself. No one should have to live without that intimacy and dignity - no one. Living a life like that - a deeply lonely, compromised, painful interior existence - is a very sophisticated form of hell. No human can keep it up for ever. No human should have to keep it up for ever.

Larry Craig is not in the closet, he is the closet.