I have a huge decision to make and am not sure how to proceed... [View All]

DUers are wise people for the most part, so I decided to ask your advice...

First, some background: Recently our city commission enacted an ordinance that made it illegal within the city to discriminate against GLBT individuals in employment, lodging, etc... The American Family Association had to stick their big nose in it and circulated petitions in the area Evangelical and mega churches to get it repealed and placed on a ballot, which they successfully accomplished.

So, I had to go north to Grand Rapids, MI (about 45 mi north) today. Had dinner with some friends and drove back to Kalamazoo. Just north of Kalamazoo there is a rest area. I had consumed a lot of water during dinner and had to pee like Sea Biscuit. I opted not to drive the remaining 10 miles home in pain, so I pulled off at the rest area and went in to take a leak.

This guy emerges from one of the stalls and walks over to the urinal next to me, takes out his equipment and starts playing with it. I am trying not to make eye contact with him but in my peripheral vision I see him move his hand over towards me. I looked at him to tell him no thanks, not interested and immediately recognized him as the pastor of one of the mega churches that circulated the petitions to get the anti-discrimination ordinance repealed.

I zipped up and got the heck out of there. Realizing I had an opportunity I returned to my car and got my camera phone and shot a picture of his license plate, and a wider angle shot clearly showing he was parked in the lot of the local rest area, along with a time and date stamp.

I don't have anything proving he was doing anything illicit other than my word. I have no intention on drawing suspicion upon myself as a gay man by having people wondering why I stopped at the rest area so close to home as well.

The city commission is going to bring a different form of the ordinance forward soon and once again the AFA has vowed to do a petition. I feel like what I want to do is anonymously send this guy and his church leadership the photos along with an account of what happened and say something like "don't circulate the petition and this information won't go public in the community."

Would this be considered extortion? Blackmail? Could I be charged with either in this case? I want to do something with this...this is too big just to sit on. This guy needs to be held accountable, I'm just lost as to how to achieve that.