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Why should First Congressional District residents vote for GOP candidate Jim Hagedorn over other Republicans or U.S. Rep. Tim Walz? “Well, I’ve got a sense of humor,” he told MPR’s Tom Scheck yesterday. But writings purged from Hagedorn’s blog prior to his candidacy announcement Wednesday present a type of humor that might be problematic for some voters — in a new case, gay and lesbian voters and their allies.

In a July 13, 2004 post (pdf) at his blog, “Mr. Conservative,” Hagedorn laments the Supreme Court decision of a year earlier that struck down Texas’ sodomy law. Spotted by Savage-based blogger DJ Danielson, the excised post is rife with double entendre, including a reference to the justices’ 2003 ruling, which Hagedorn wrote, “injudiciously fisted two hundred and twenty-seven years of the Republic’s mores into the bowels of cultural debauchery.”

The case, Lawrence v. Texas, resulted after John Geddes Lawrence and Tyron Garner (Hagedorn refers to the mixed-race couple as “Salt and Pepper Texans”) were arrested for allegedly having consensual sex. Hagedorn’s version of the arrest:

The whole of the story is that barnyard noises incited Houston’s version of Mrs. Kravitz to summon authorities, presumably, so her neighbors could be hosed down by something other than each other. Police dutifully responded to the dispatcher’s call of “code 69…in progress.” In the end, the human erector set were arrested after cops, copped the copping couple “copulating” – weapons withdrawn, in hand, thankfully still loaded, regrettably cocked and primed to shoot.

Shortly after conviction, the assailants challenged the ruling, as well as the validity of laws that discouraged acts most suitably performed at a Ringling Brothers sexual version of the greatest show on earth.

He continues:

Never was it imagined the nation’s highest judicial body would entertain such an open-n-shut case and then have the cheek to permit the guilty to come from behind and pull one out of their rears, to use a sports metaphor. Even though the defendant’s line-of-reasoning gave new meaning to the term “oral argument,” the ins-and-outs of the judicial process were exposed as penetratingly confounding. The case confirmed to experts and laymen alike that the “Law Is A Ass,” or as the legal letches of MANBLA now whisper to fresh meat: ass IS the law.

Butt (sic) never have winners lost so dearly. The Court’s voyage into uncharted, untreated cultural bathhouse waters was designed to offer a gentle push from behind…to generate a small skip forward for the pink triangle class…to throw them a bone, so to speak.

Hagedorn has not reponded to the Minnesota Independent’s request for comment on the blog-scrubbing.