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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 03:55 PM Jan 2015

Gay Alabama Lawmaker Threatens To Out Closeted And Cheating Colleagues

http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/gay_alabama_lawmaker_threatens_to_out_closeted_and_cheating_colleagues

This weekend, Democrat Patricia Todd (photo, left, with her wife) issued a strong warning to her colleagues who oppose Friday's federal decision striking down Alabama' ban on same-sex marriage.

"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," Todd, the state’s first and only openly gay lawmaker, said on Facebook, according to the Decateur Daily. "I will call our elected officials who want to hide in the closet out."

"It is pretty well known that we have people in Montgomery who are or have had affairs," Todd says. "I just want them to be careful what they’re saying, some of it might come back to stick on them."...

First elected in 2006, Todd is beginning her third term in office. She also serves as the the associate director of AIDS Alabama. Her campaign website notes that "Rep. Todd and her wife Jennifer will be filing their state taxes as a married couple and encourage all other legally married same gender couples to do the same." The couple married in Provincetown in 2013.
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Gay Alabama Lawmaker Threatens To Out Closeted And Cheating Colleagues (Original Post) KamaAina Jan 2015 OP
Wowsers shenmue Jan 2015 #1
Any time a "family values" clown starts yapping, you just know they're doing something hobbit709 Jan 2015 #2
Yup its a pretty safe bet that most of them wouldnt know family values if it bit them. nt cstanleytech Jan 2015 #7
about time!!! hollysmom Jan 2015 #3
K&R Borchkins Jan 2015 #4
So if a colleague that has spoken out against the decision No Vested Interest Jan 2015 #5
ding! ding! ding! adieu Jan 2015 #6
Either way Delmette Jan 2015 #8
Rec. progressoid Jan 2015 #9

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)
2. Any time a "family values" clown starts yapping, you just know they're doing something
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 03:59 PM
Jan 2015

that they shouldn't.

No Vested Interest

(5,164 posts)
5. So if a colleague that has spoken out against the decision
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 05:55 PM
Jan 2015

suddenly stops or recants - should that colleague's spouse be suspicious that the colleague is having affairs that he/she doesn't want disclosed?

Delmette

(522 posts)
8. Either way
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 07:50 PM
Jan 2015

They are screwed, outed, in deep shit, up a creek, and they will finally find out what "good for the goose, good for the gander" means.

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