For Claude R.

Here's an interesting excerpt from a column written by Heather Mallick for the CBC website. In the article, Mallick discusses the recent outing of Idaho's Senator Larry Craig.

Craig has spent his career vilifying homosexuals. I wonder why.

An embarrassing 1996 study (thanks, Toronto Star) suggests there may be a reason for this. The study, which measured men's sexual arousal, showed that homophobic males were aroused by explicit homosexual images, while non-homophobic men were not. Which suggests that men who are unhappy with their own homosexual urges go into a full-throttle flaps-down denial by persecuting men who are like them.