Skinny Dipping Isn’t Illegal Or Even Particularly Shocking
on August 22, 2012 at 12:15 pmSo Rep. Kevin Yoder of Kansas, on a Congressional junket to Israel, went skinny dipping after a dinner with friends. He claims there was no alcohol involved and there is no reason to dispute it (or even care if there was). The rest of the group kept on at least some clothes.
Somehow this has become a big deal with even Mitt Romney deriding the action as “reprehensible.”
Well, no. No it’s not. First, the Sea of Galilee, where Jesus is purported to have walked on water, is not a holy site in the traditional sense. People swim in it, go boating and jet ski on it. Little kids swim and pee in it.
Next, Yoder may be a Congressperson, but he gets to have time off, even on a junket. If this were not the case than we can legitimately complain that he takes a dump or has sex with his wife on the taxpayer’s dime. How DARE he?! Yes, this is a ridiculous argument to make.
Lastly, it’s not an illegal activity or even particularly taboo. Here’s a list of conservative states that have nudist beaches or camps:
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
Colorado
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Kansas KANSAS!!!
Missouri
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
West Virginia
If you’re going to claim that skinny dipping is some kind of horrible moral crime, I’m afraid that red state America respectfully disagrees. If they haven’t made it illegal, it’s obviously not that serious.
They're NEKKID! The horror! THE HORROR!
This is a stupid controversy, even by our media’s cut rate standards. Oh, and just so we’re clear that I’m not just blindly defending a Democrat, Yoder is a Republican.
And, no, I have never gone skinny dipping.
Well, this case is weird though.
A) He was the ONLY one of the group to go skinny dipping.
B) He claims to have been sober.
Obviously the GOP us trying to clear ranks before the erec.. uh eLection comes to fruition.
BTW, love the easy to use Captcha!
This is hilarious. Mitt needs to just go away. And, for the record, skinny dipping is AMAAAAZZZZIIIINNGGG!!!
Justin, you should try it. It’s awesome.
Except that when and where he did it was indeed illegal. Are there bigger issues that should have most repubs be labled unfit for office? Yep. But had he done the same sort of thing say, at the public area of Jones Beach, he’d have been arrested and put on the sex offenders list. He was in Israel on official business and did not conduct himself in a manner appropriate to his office.
Not for nothing, but what’s with the guy in the top center of the picture? I don’t think that I’d follow him anywhere, let alone into deep water.
He’s either got a garbage bag over a cast or he’s Dr. Claw.