Caught being gay

Then, inhe founded Saint James Church, but inhe was accused of having inappropriate sexual contact with two young men in his congregation one of whom was a minor at the time. Conservative Christian lawmaker Wes Goodman was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in and spent his career promoting "the ideals of a loving father and mother" and "a committed natural marriage," AKA I hate gay peoplebut then he was caught living a double life, The Advocate reported at the time.

It turns out Goodman was having sexual encounters with men online, on the phone, and even having sex with another man in his own state office. In response to the reporter's questions, Craig said, "I'm not gay, and I don't cruise, and I don't hit on men. Craig later tried unsuccessfully to withdraw his guilty plea before resigning after nearly two decades as a senator.

Not only did this Republican leader clearly have same-sex attractions, but the people he targeted with his inappropriate online messages were under It's almost hard to imagine how someone could be more of a hypocrite than that. Once reports of the extramarital gay encounters came out, Goodman resigned from office, but it turns out his affairs were an open secret in conservative Republican circles.

Here's a list of those hostile to equality who turned out to be lesbian, gay, or bisexual. Reporters from CNN discovered he had hired a year-old from Rentboy. His new church quickly fell apart, and he ended up selling the building and starting a church in his own home, the Denver Gazette reports.

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Evangelical pastor Ted Haggard has spent his career spouting conservative Christian talking points while also secretly having sex with men. So here are 10 conservatives who were caught red-handed diving head-first into the gay pond while claiming to be straight as an arrow.

And yet, in predictable fashion, she was caught red-handed when the police recovered a sex tape featuring her and another woman while they were investigating rape allegations against her husband, Christian Ziegler. The founder of the megachurch New Life Church was excommunicated in after accusations that he paid a male escort for sex and was using methamphetamine came to light.

Bridget Ziegler even admitted to police that she engaged in threesomes with her husband and another woman because, apparently, she's allowed to have same-sex relationships, but god forbid someone tell children that gay people exist.

Back inRepublican Senator Larry Craig pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after an undercover police officer accused him of soliciting sex in the men's restroom at the Minneapolis, Minn. Then he was caught coming back from a European vacation with a male escort in tow.

Once reports of the extramarital gay encounters came out, Goodman resigned from office, but it turns out his affairs were an open secret in conservative Republican circles. After getting caught, a total of eight men came forward and alleged they either had sex with the Idaho lawmaker or were targets of his sexual advances.

Bush, was accused of sexually assaulting a male staffer during a car ride in October Huffman filed a multimillion-dollar sexual misconduct lawsuit against Schlapp inbut this was not the first time the conservative strategist had been accused of sexual misconduct by a man.

I don't go around anywhere hitting on men, and by God, if I did, I wouldn't do it in Boise, Idaho!.

Gay Republicans POLITICO Magazine : But Jones, who is openly gay, said he’s no longer looking the other way

The Toronto psychiatrist for years offered services to treat patients with "problems related to. Rekers claimed he only hired him to carry his luggage Whatever you say, George. From prominent megachurch leader to preaching in a micro-church — oh, how the mighty have fallen.

According to court filings, there was an accusation in and again inboth of which the ACU was aware of and did nothing about, CNN reports. The level of hypocrisy is stunning. George Rekers co-founded the Family Research Council — a powerful evangelical Christian group that lobbies against gay rights — and spent his career as a homophobe-for-hire, testifying in court cases against gay couples adopting and in support of the Boy Scouts of America when they wanted to keep out gay troupe leaders.

Former Florida Representative Mark Foley — well known for leading the House caucus on missing and exploited children and fighting for harsher penalties for sexual predators — resigned in after sexually explicit messages he sent underage Congressional pages came to light, according to NBC News.