"He has previously said 'God has forgiven' him for his actions - but offered no evidence."

[Siwsan]

That is today's favorite line from a Daily Mail article on Tennessee's Rep. Scott DesJarlais. And it is quite a headline, too:

Abortions for his lovers, sex with a subordinate after a drunken Christmas party and sleeping with his patients despite being a doctor: Truth about the 'pro-life' Christian congressman who says 'God has forgiven me'

A Republican congressman slept with patients when he was a doctor, had sex with his subordinates and despite a pro-life voting record, pressured women in his life to have abortions.

Scott DesJarlais, who represents Tennessee's 4th district, has so far largely escaped mounting scrutiny of legislators' conduct that has forced four to quit and two more to say they will not seek re-election.

But public records show that he had a lengthy record of dubious behavior before being elected as part of the Tea Party wave to represent the largely rural south-east Tennessee district, which stretches from just outside Chattanooga to close to the suburbs of Nashville.

DesJarlais, 53, doesn't dispute the facts. He even paid a fine levied by the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners in 2013 for having sex with his patients.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5229243/Congressman-Scott-DesJarlais-says-God-forgives-him.html#ixzz5348oBQoZ

[marble falls]

1. Without a signed certificate how do we know if he's been forgiven or not?

[Siwsan]

2. So, you are not willing to take his word for it???

[marble falls]

8. Not with out evidence. He admits to committing other sins, why would he stop at lying?

[smirkymonkey]

3. This is the problem with these rabid "religious" people. They have absolutely NO morals and

they think they can commit all kinds of horrible acts as long as they ask "god" for forgiveness. They are the biggest hypocrites on the planet.

[Yavin4]

4. Super moralists folks are super moralist because they think that everyone is as fucked up

as they are.

[onethatcares]

5. Oh Gaud,

Jesus wept.

[spanone]

6. fuck this guy.....hypocrite of the highest degree

POS>>>>

Late in the 2012 election campaign, more events from DesJarlais's personal life became public, making the race against Stewart "one of the ugliest Tennessee congressional races in decades". In October 2012 the Huffington Post obtained a transcript of a recorded September 2000 phone conversation in which DesJarlais pressured a mistress to get an abortion. DesJarlais repeatedly denied that he himself had taped the conversation. In October he wrote to supporters on Facebook, "The media wrongly reported that I recorded the conversation myself. I was recorded unknowingly and without my consent. Nine days before the general election a second woman came forward to state that she began dating DesJarlais while she was his patient. She alleged that the two smoked marijuana together and that he prescribed pain medications for her while at his house.

Two weeks after DesJarlais won the 2012 election, the Chattanooga Times Free Press obtained a full transcript of DesJarlais's 2001 divorce proceedings.The transcript revealed that DesJarlais had admitted under oath to at least six sexual relationships with people he came in contact with while he was chief of staff at Grandview Medical Center in Jasper, Tennessee. Among them were three co-workers, two patients and a drug representative. The transcript also revealed that he and his former wife had had two abortions. The transcript also revealed that DesJarlais had admitted under oath that he and his former wife had recorded the phone conversation with the mistress. "One of the biggest mistakes I made was I commented to the press before I had the opportunity to go back and read a transcript that was 13, 14 years old," he said in an interview with the Knoxville News Sentinel. "It was never my intention to mislead anyone, and had I read this, I don't think the inaccuracies that occurred would have taken place."

Three weeks after he won the election, DesJarlais announced on a conservative talk radio show that "God has 'forgiven me' and asked 'fellow Christians' and constituents 'to consider doing the same'."

In October 2012, the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) requested that the Tennessee Board of Health investigate evidence that DesJarlais had had a sexual relationship with a patient, in violation of the Tennessee Medical Practice Act. The complaint was investigated and in May 2013 DesJarlais was formally reprimanded by the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners for having sex with patients and was fined $500 - calculated by the Board as "$250 per patient" - and $1000 in costs. He did not contest the charges.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_DesJarlais

[Siwsan]

7. I think they need to investigate the drinking water in his district. It might contain brain worms

That's one of the few explanations I can come up with as to why people keep electing him.