He has implied before that he knows better than the Pope what it means to be a “real” Catholic.

I wonder how these post would have gone if Sullivan was still the gay darling of gay conservatives.

But you don’t have to wonder, Kevin.

This blog has condemned people who were supposed to be “conservative darlings” – but who then showed hypocrisy or failed to live up to honorable standards – time and time again.

Any regular reader of this blog would know that. You must be new around here, Kevin. Or, if not: then you must be one of those left-wing commentors who simply DOES NOT READ before spewing.

The Cape Cod National Seashore is teaming up with local officials this summer for a “public education” approach to a soaring number of citations for debauchery in Cape Cod’s dunes:

“An example of the complaints was a call reporting Wednesday that a 65- to 70-year-old man was flashing people at Herring Cove Beach, according to Seashore records. In a Sept. 19, 2007, letter, a New Jersey family walking with children in the dunes encountered ‘several couples and then a large group of men having group sex in the nude, including oral and anal sex right out in the open.’ In an August 2007 letter, a whale-watch boat captain leaving Provincetown Harbor with passengers reported seeing 20 to 30 nude men ‘playing around’ near Wood End Lighthouse. Other complaints describe Seashore visitors encountering public sex acts at Head of the Meadow Beach in North Truro and near a Seashore building off North Pamet Road in Truro.”

What are the odds that the nation’s foremost advocate for gay marriage, Mrs. Milky Glutes, is hanging out, getting stoned at an outdoor gay bathhouse to strengthen his marriage?

I think you are spot on.

I guess our soul has been corroded just a teensy bit more.

The judge [Collings] is spot on. In fact, these sorts of misdemeanors are typically handled… with no review [or] meaningful scrutiny by senior management. [Sullivan's lenient] treatment is nothing short of extraordinary… paradigmatic of special pleading…

Various bloggers have noted that
(1) the U.S. Attorney is a careerist, but his supervisor is an Obama appointee;
(2) As the self-appointed One True Remaining Conservative(tm), Sullivan has been a shameless cheerleader for the Dear Leader on certain matters like Porkulus and the socialization of American medicine.

Radosh notes the strong appearance that the U.S. Attorney was, in effect, paying off Sullivan.

Assistant U. S. Attorney James F. Lang jumped in and said that Collings had no power to inquire why the U.S. Attorney had decided to have the charge dismissed. [ed: which was untrue]

Collings says he expressed his concern that “a dismissal would result in persons in similar situations being treated unequally before the law. … persons charged with the same offense on the Cape Cod National Seashore were routinely given violation notices, and if they did not agree to [pay the fine] were prosecuted by the United States Attorney … there was no apparent reason for treating Mr. Sullivan differently from other persons charged with the same offense.”

In fact, noted Collings, there were several other defendants appearing in court the same day who were charged with the same offense.

In his opinion, Collings wrote that the U.S. Attorney is “is not being faithful to a cardinal principle of our legal system, i.e., that all persons stand equal before the law and are to be treated equally in a court of justice once judicial processes are invoked. It is quite apparent that Mr. Sullivan is being treated differently from others who have been charged with the same crime in similar circumstances.”

Ultimately, Collings acknowledged that he had no choice other than to allow the case to be dismissed, but “that the Court must so act does not require the Court to believe that the end result is a just one.”