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We recently removed a mayor for innapropriate behavior with underage persons, largely done on the public's dime and time. This same person was rabidly anti-gay when a member of the state senate, and even tried to criminalize sex between minors. It turns out that over the years he's abused his political power to solicit sex with very young men, and now he claims to be gay and a victim of descrimination. The gay community refutes this characterisation- they say (and rightly so) that he is primarily a pedophile and they will not accept him. Turns out he hung out with several notorious pedophiles back in the seventies, and there are many accusations against him from his alleged victims. He is a sadistic bastard, and he has hurt the gay community and countless young people. There have been many like him in the past- Roy Cohn comes to mind- and while I don't pretend to understand their motivation, it does seem that eventually they get their karmic payback.
(I'm not saying that this gentleman was in any way like our ex-mayor, but I do understand the confusion that arises when people belong to groups that are hostile to them. Perhaps, like Cheney's daughter, they hope to change things from inside the party, but it seems rather masochistic to me).
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