Gay lawmaker: I'll expose your affairs, you hypocrites

[CrazyLucky]

Love this!

www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/26/patricia-todd_n_6549024.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592


Gay Alabama Lawmaker Threatens To Expose Colleagues' Marital Infidelities



WASHINGTON -- Alabama's only openly gay legislator is putting her anti-gay colleagues on notice: If they keep espousing family values rhetoric as a reason to oppose marriage equality, she'll start making their marital infidelities public.



"I will not stand by and allow legislators to talk about 'family values' when they have affairs, and I know of many who are and have," wrote state Rep. Patricia Todd (D) on Facebook over the weekend, as reported by the TimesDaily in Alabama. "I will call our elected officials who want to hide in the closet out."



Todd's post came after a federal judge ruled Friday that Alabama's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. She told The Huffington Post that she decided to issue her threat after reading some of the anti-gay rhetoric coming from certain elected officials in the state.





"If certain people come out and start espousing this rhetoric about family values, then I will say, 'Let's talk about family values, because here's what I heard.' I don't have direct knowledge, because obviously I'm not the other person involved in the affair. But one thing you would never hear about me is that I ever cheated on a partner or had an affair," said Todd.



"One thing I'm pretty consistent on is I do not like hypocrites," she added. "If you can explain your position and you hold yourself to the same standard you want to hold me to, then fine. But you cannot go out there and smear my community by condemning us and somehow making us feel less than, and expect me to be quiet."



On Sunday night, U.S. District Court Judge Callie Granade issued a two-week stay on her ruling, meaning that same-sex couples will have to wait a bit longer to wed. Her order gives the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals until Feb. 9 to decide whether to continue the delay. Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange (R) said he would have preferred a stay until the spring or summer, when the Supreme Court is set to rule on the constitutionality of marriage equality nationwide.



If Granade's ruling is upheld, Alabama will be the 37th state to legalize marriage equality.

[mbcdefg]

Good for her!

[secretlyevil]

Boom!

[aurora]

Oh, man. I hope someone takes the challenge and gets called out!

[origami]

Dooooooo eeeeeeeeeeet!

[tacosforlife]

Jan 26, 2015 21:41:35 GMT -5 origami said:

Dooooooo eeeeeeeeeeet!

This is unrelated, but I JUST realized your avatar is an origami Yoda. 

LOL. I'm slow. 

[AAM2012]

OMG yes!!!

[gpw]

[Deleted]

Bam!

[One Girl In All The World]

This is brilliant.

[jln]

Awesome.

[saz]

Amazing!! I love her!

[mrsukyankee]

Hehehehehehe. Bring it.

[ECB]

Oh, this could be fun!!!

[Saint Monica]

(devil)

It is no fun unless you name names.

[SwimDeep]

love this! I hope she does start exposing people.

[twotrue]

I have mixed feelings on this one. I hate private lives being brought into politics, yet politicians are voting on whether my private life is right or wrong. I don't know. I mean if there are children in these families where family-man-dad-politician is sleeping around than I really wouldn't want 'my side' to be responsible for airing dad's affair all over the media.

I like the sentiment behind it but I'm not sure I could back it in actual application. I have to think about this one.

[CrazyLucky]

Jan 27, 2015 11:23:12 GMT -5 twotrue said:

I have mixed feelings on this one. I hate private lives being brought into politics, yet politicians are voting on whether my private life is right or wrong. I don't know. I mean if there are children in these families where family-man-dad-politician is sleeping around than I really wouldn't want 'my side' to be responsible for airing dad's affair all over the media.

I like the sentiment behind it but I'm not sure I could back it in actual application. I have to think about this one.

I understand your mixed feelings, and I'm sure you are right that Ms. Todd would be blamed for breaking up families.  But that would be ridiculous. The hurt feelings and embarrassment and anger should be placed squarely on the shoulders of the cheaters who are screwing around in the evening and screaming "Family values!" the next day.