January 18, 2008

Republican “Family Values” on parade. Again.

Hypocrisy in the Republican party? Say it isn’t so!

(Houston, Texas) The district attorney who defended the Texas law criminalizing homosexuality before the US Supreme Court is desperately trying to keep his job following the discovery of e-mails containing sexually explicit videos, racist jokes and what is described as torrid love notes to his executive secretary.

Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal (R) is facing a state investigation into the emails which were discovered on his office computer.

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But in 2002 it was “family values” Rosenthal who argued before the US Supreme Court that the Texas law against sodomy was upholding the moral values of the state and was in place to protect families. The case was Lawrence v Texas.

In his arguments he condemned adultery and homosexual acts.

“I think that this Court having determined that there are certain kinds of conduct that it will accept and certain kinds of conduct it will not accept may draw the line at the bedroom door of the heterosexual married couple because of the interest that this Court has that this Nation has and certainly that the State of Texas has for the preservation of marriage, families and the procreation of children,” Rosenthal told the justices.

Apparently adultery is bad, except when Republicans are engaging in it. And gay sex is always bad of course–except when Republicans are doing it in public restrooms with the full forgiveness of God.

I hereby nominate Rosenthal for his very own page on Conservative Babylon.

Posted by: Buffy

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