Emails reveal Tony Perkins knew GOP lawmaker sexually assaulted teen but kept it quiet
Source: Raw Story
According to a report from the Washington Post, the head of the evangelical Family Research Council was alerted that a Ohio lawmaker sexually assaulted a teen in a hotel room over two years ago and never made the information public.
The report states that the Post obtained internal emails showing that Tony Perkins, in his capacity as the president of the Council for National Policy, was made aware that 31-year-old Wesley Goodman had fondled an 18-year-old college student following an event at the Ritz Carlton in Washington D.C.
Goodman, a Christian family values Republican lawmaker stepped down from his post under pressure two days ago after it was revealed that he had engaged in a same-sex tryst on his Ohio office.
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/emails-reveal-tony-perkins-knew-gop-lawmaker-sexually-assaulted-teen-but-kept-it-quiet/
It tells you a lot about a man that he will shut up to protect a sexual assaulter. Outrageous
keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,261 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,007 posts)Botany
(70,516 posts)Legislator because he was caught having sex w/another man in his office.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/lawmaker-wes-goodman-anti-lgbt-resigns-sex-man-office-caught-ohio-republican-christian-family-values-a8060631.html
An Ohio lawmaker who routinely touted his Christian faith and anti-LGBT views has resigned after being caught having sex with a man in his office.
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The right-wing legislator, who pushed family values, was reportedly witnessed having sex with a man inside his office who was not employed by the legislator.
According to the Columbus Dispatch, the observer told Ohio House Chief of Staff Mike Dittoe what had happened on Tuesday afternoon. Mr Dittoe responded by telling House Speaker Republican Cliff Rosenberger who in turn met with Mr Goodman.
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The 33-year-old, who has been branded the conscience of the conservative movement, resigned for inappropriate conduct shortly after the meeting took place.
Mr Goodman, whose Twitter biography describes him as Christian. American. Conservative. Republican. Husband to @Beth1027, has regularly claimed "natural marriage" occurs between a man and a woman.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)dalton99a
(81,516 posts)So typical
Botany
(70,516 posts).... is upset by "the gays" the more likely that they are gay or very interested
in that "nasty naughty hot dirty" man action.
i hope Mr. Goodman can come out as a gay man and then spend the rest of his
life trying to help people and the world.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)Botany
(70,516 posts)He is still young and just maybe if he understands who he is now and what he
has done in the past he can change.
irisblue
(32,981 posts)But Log Cabin Republicans might take him in as a charity.
Botany
(70,516 posts).... community would accept him. But the damage he has done w/his hate talk
must be felt w/too.
Snackshack
(2,541 posts)Lawmaker should not come as a surprise. It is all about power.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)"keep it in the family" The gop mafia family, that is.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)when the phony xtians accrue power and $$$.
bluestarone
(16,976 posts)is the WHOLE TRUTH
Paladin
(28,264 posts)tanyev
(42,568 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)Good cover for a lot of religious folk's misbehavior.
Is that Roy Moore I hear praying for Tony?
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