John McCain claims his Vietnamese captors were homosexuals. Is gay torture worse then regular torture?

Time and time again it comes up in his stump speeches, campaign commercials and discussions on faith. And for good reason: the Arizona Senator's tale of torture and patriotism captured a nation back in 1973, when he was finally released after almost six years in Vietnamese captivity. McCain became a bit of a - dare we say it - celebrity, and even penned a first hand account of his experience for US News & Report.

In the piece, McCain explains his relationship to his captors, some of whom he claims were gay:

In other words, if you are going to make it, you get tougher as time goes by. Part of it is just a transition from our way of life to that way of life. But you get to hate them so bad that it gives you strength.

Now I don't hate them any more—not these particular guys. I hate and detest the leaders. Some guards would just come in and do their job. When they were told to beat you they would come in and do it. Some seemed to get a big bang out of it. A lot of them were homosexual, although never toward us. Some, who were pretty damned sadistic, seemed to get a big thrill out of the beatings.

Hmmm. One has to wonder why this was an important distinction for John McCain to have made. So perhaps being held captive and tortured for five years is not impressive enough to your military pals, but if you say they were also possibly butt-bandits, well damn that scares the hell out of your testosterone infused Navy buddies.

And if they did not go all gay on John McCain or his fellow prisoners then how did he know?

Did they suddenly suck in their breath when McCain took off his shirt? Did they torture him by tweezing his eyebrows? Did they play show tunes while they were administering the beatings? I mean what the hell was it?

Or could it be that John McCain, like many uber conservative assholes, used homosexuality as a measurement of a certain level of depravity. In other words being beaten, starved, and put into a sweat box is a horrible experience. But being touched by a fag is infinitely worse.

John McCain, hating fags since 1973!