Galilee After Dark

On a Republican junket in Israel, some Congressmen went swimming in the Sea of Gallilee. One went au naturale.

I have no idea if this is a local scandal in Israel, but I do know that the evangelical wing of the GOP both hates nudity and is knee-jerk overprotective of Israel.  Plus there's some kind of investigation? This has the makings of a pretty juicy scandal!

But I've had some real trouble finding any material on Free Republic about this. Maybe it's the Akin thing sucking all the air out of the room (more on that next post), maybe it's just that when Freepers think about it their heads hurt.

But I nevertheless managed to cobble together this meager offering from the two threads I could find:

illiac knows Democrats can't stop getting drunk and naked and swimming in Israel:

The reason the lib media did not report on it is because for dems, they consider this to be a normal way of life for thier kind....

Verginius Rufus explains how it happened in the Bible, so it's cool:

Maybe Congressman Kevin Yoder was inspired by the example of St. Peter. According to John 21.7, Peter was naked while fishing in his fishing boat on the Sea of Galilee. (The word used in the Greek is gymnos which can mean "naked" but sometimes means "lightly clad.")

Netz knows the existence of all bad news about Republicans proves Democrats are desperate:

The DemocRATs are desperate now. They managed to find a group of GOP folks who skinny dipped in Israel. Nobody cares and most folks will say, so what? This shows that the RATs are in very bad shape and grasping at straws...

chopperman seems to think nudity (and maybe blasphemy) doesn't count if it happens after dark:

I can’t see what the big deal is. This was done in the dark. Dusk at that time of year in Israel is around 7:30PM. This ‘nudity’ happened at 9:00PM.