10 March 2010: “Thy rod and thy staff…”

Former Representative Eric J. Massa of New York admits that he groped several male aides inappropriately in his office, grabbed another male staff member’s member at a wedding party, and tickled yet another male underling “until he couldn’t breathe,” but that there was “nothing sexual” about these close encounters of the gay kind.  What surprises me is that Massa has not quoted Psalm 23 in his own defense:  “Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.”