2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDennis Hastert’s secret gay ‘misconduct’ is even worse given his terrible voting record on gay right
Although the indictment provides little information about the nature of that misconduct, the Los Angeles Times, citing law enforcement sources, reports that Hastert was paying to cover up sexual indiscretions with a person of the same gender he knew from coaching youth wrestling.
I felt a special bond with our wrestlers, Hastert wrote in his 2004 memoir. And I think they felt one with me.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/dennis-hasterts-secret-gay-misconduct-is-even-worse-given-his-terrible-voting-record-on-gay-rights/comments/#disqus
marym625
(17,997 posts)I wish that the gay angle wasn't used. If he's gay and so deep in the closet he is finding Christmas presents, it's one thing. But if he's a ephebophile, that's another thing entirely.
I suspect that the victim is a teenager, considering the high school wrestler references
Raster
(20,998 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)Wish I could take credit for it.
Raster
(20,998 posts)phleshdef
(11,936 posts)Thats of course the point of the article in the OP. Its another example of how these guys that "doth protest too much" are really living in their personal lives.
gwheezie
(3,580 posts)It is creepy though and not because of gay sex. Its the being a coach and abusing underage students that is creepy.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)Let's have some info on the others
Joe Nation
(962 posts)He is a pedophile.
tavernier
(12,368 posts)The OP had me saying, "WHUTTT?"
A pedophile molests children. What on earth does that have to do with being gay?
phleshdef
(11,936 posts)Pedophiles are gay, straight or bi as well in terms of what gender the sick fucks choose to prey on. Seems like Hastert is totally into messing around with males while using his legislative power to oppress others who were/are in real relationships, full of much more purity and love than anything he could ever be apart of.
joshcryer
(62,265 posts)Don't be absurd.
He might be in trouble this day and age with age of consent and other laws preventing people in positions of authority from having sex with subordinates.
But at the time he likely only violated anti-sodomy laws.
It was likely a coercive relationship with a coach in a position of power manipulating a student and the student grew up to be an adult, lived their life for some time, and remembered what they went through, and decided to cash out.
DFW
(54,277 posts)When Fox Noise started calling him a Democrat, then you KNOW it's serious!
GOLGO 13
(1,681 posts)Hold nothing back when taking on self-loathing monsters like this.