Watch out, George Michael: Jim Naugle, the mayor of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has proposed buying $250,000 high-tech toilets to prevent “illegal sex” acts from being performed in public restrooms at the city’s beaches. Apparently the doors of the toilets open after a set time period, thereby making the robotic contraption — which also plays music and automatically cleans the seat — a sub-optimal venue for illicit sex.

Naugle sure doesn’t put a polite spin on it:

“We’re trying to provide a family environment where people can take their children who need to use the bathroom,” he said, “without having to worry about a couple of men in there engaged in a sex act.”

Though police say sex in restrooms is no longer a hot crime, the mayor thinks it is. He talked about the illicit sex recently in public meetings, in an interview and in e-mails to residents.

Naugle, not a stranger to public controversy, particularly on the issue of gays, said public restrooms are pickup places for “homosexuals. … They’re engaging in sex, anonymous sex, illegal sex.”

The proposed location for the city’s experimental automated toilet is the parking lot at Sebastian Street, at what many locals call the “gay beach.” Naugle told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel that the intelligent commode’s security features are vital at this location, which he called “the rainbow parking lot.”

“The homosexual newspaper said it’s the ‘gay parking lot.’ That’s not me saying that,” Naugle said in the interview, “that’s what they said. I don’t use the word ‘gay.’ I use the word ‘homosexual.’ Most of them aren’t gay. They’re unhappy.”

Naugle, a what else — conservative Christian — has made a name for himself in South Florida for his no-holds-barred, no-brain-engaged comments.

For instance, he refused to sign a mayors’ pact on greenhouse gas reductions, claiming it was put forward by environmentalist “whackos” who hate America. He also made the insightful if illogical comment that home prices in South Florida would be lower if middle class people would stop sitting on the couch drinking beer and get to work. When a religious festival came to town, Naugle said those who opposed the city supporting a Christian event could just “go to Iraq.”

Of course, the local gay community weighed in on Naugle’s comments. Well, “weighed in” is, I suppose, a relative term:

“Excuse me?” said Marc Hansen, a leader among local gay residents. “Thank God this is his last term.”

Snappy comeback, Marc!