On Monday, near the end of Sen. David Vitter's apology for consorting with call girls, he
practically dared the media to prove allegations that he had ongoing relations with hookers in
New Orleans in the 1990s.
According to sources, the mother and child live in suburban D.C., where they secretly receive support from Sen. Baby-Daddy.
FLYNT: [I] want to point something out very important. [Vitter] lied on TV when he apologized to the nation. He
[LARRY] KING: Lied how?
FLYNT:
well, he's using his wife and kids as a shield and said what happened. Those rumors out of Louisiana where he had a small brothel of hookers. That was not true. Well, it is true. I'm working with the major Louisiana media down there.
KING: You say he had a brothel of hookers in Louisiana?
FLYNT: There's been about five we've been able to track down so far. So you see what happens when you're a guy like him and you're not completely honest, see, he didn't even have to bring that up. And now that he's brought it up, everybody is all over it, including us.
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Privette on two occasions allegedly paid the prostitute with checks then reported the checks stolen.
0Coy Privette, Tiffany Denise Summers
Privette, 74, was charged with six counts of misdemeanor aiding and abetting prostitution by renting a hotel room and paying for sexual acts, according to State Bureau of Investigation Agent Kevin Canty. Tiffany Denise Summers, 32, of Salisbury, was charged with six counts of misdemeanor prostitution, Canty said.
And:
Police said officers were investigating a forged check case, which led them to the prostitution charges. Privette on two occasions allegedly paid the prostitute with checks then reported those checks as stolen, officials said.
According to
its website, the Christian Action League is:
a Christian public policy organization that addresses public policy and legislative issues from a Christian worldview. The Christian Action League has a full-time presence in the General Assembly of North Carolina and has garnered considerable respect from both the Republican and Democratic parties. The League's purpose is to assist the church in fulfilling Christ's command to be the "salt" and the "light" of the earth.
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Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jim Naugle has been spending a lot of time lately thinking about sex. Anonymous sex. Illegal sex. In public restrooms. Between men.
And he's not just thinking about "t-room" (for toilet-room) sex. He's also talking about it at public meetings, in interviews, and even in e-mails to residents to let us know he thinks "homosexual activity" is a plague on public restrooms.
He's thought so much about t-room sex that he wanted the City Commission to approve $250,000 for a robo-john, a high-tech restroom that plays music and has automated systems that clean the toilet seat and open the door after a few minutes. This last feature, Naugle figures, won't allow enough time for the t-room sex he's been so pre-occupied with lately (city commissioners voted Tuesday to delete the toilet from the proposed budget).
As Naugle explained to the
South Florida Sun-Sentinel, "We're trying to provide a family environment where people can take their children who need to use the bathroom, without having to worry about a couple of men in there engaged in a sex act." And he claims the high-tech toilet's timed door will deter the anonymous sex he thinks will occur at the robo-john's planned location, "the rainbow parking lot." That's what Naugle called the parking lot directly across A1A from a section of beach at Sebastian Street favored primarily by gay men, residents and tourists alike.
But one problem Naugle had in trying to justify buying a robo-john due only to his belief that it will stop the rampant anonymous t-room sex he's been thinking about is that the rampant anonymous t-room sex he's been thinking about isn't a problem. According to Sgt. Frank Sousa, "There's no evidence, no reports or arrests made for any men having sex in any restrooms."
Another problem Naugle has is his propensity for stereotyping.
Who can forget Mayor Antoinette's recent pronouncement that the only folks in South Florida with an affordable housing problem are beer-guzzling "schlock" couch-potatoes "who won't work more than 40 hours a week." Or his haughty dismissal of a mayor's pact in favor of the Kyoto Agreement to reduce greenhouse gases now signed by more than 520 mayors nationwide as favoring "anti-American stuff" that was contrived by "a bunch of scientists meeting in Paris who've had too much wine," and embraced by "environmental wackos."
Now, to justify a costly expenditure, Naugle stereotyped gay men (a term he won't use because he believes we're unhappy) and inclusively demeans all those spending a great deal of time, money and effort to help revitalize sections of the city, those with enough concern and vision to become community leaders, and the gay tourists who leave millions of dollars in the city's coffers.
But research done in the 1960s, and later verified by police data, reveals the men involved in tearoom sex primarily are married family men, who've said they were in sexless marriages and were looking for something a little less lonely than self-gratification. Consider the recent arrest of Florida state representative Bob Allen (R-Merritt Island), a married father who was charged with soliciting for offering $20 to perform a sex act on a male undercover cop in a Titusville restroom. Yet anyone today looking for anonymous sex can go online and find alternatives more appealing than a spritzed outhouse blaring canned music.
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| | "Marriage is the most fundamental social institution in human history," Sen. David Vitter says in the video clip above. This statement came as part of the debate last summer over amending the U.S. Constitution to prevent gay people from marrying each other. At the time, Vitter told CNN,"I don't believe there's any issue that's more important than this one." Over the years, of course, Vitter has degraded and defiled his own marriage by hiring prostitutes, including at least one call girl from the D.C. Madam. Prior to that, Wendy Cortez, a prostitute in New Orleans, claimed in 1999 that Vitter had an ongoing affair with her. Maybe he met her at this brothel: In New Orleans, meanwhile, the madam of a high-priced brothel that was shut down by federal authorities in 2002 told a local television station, WDSU, that Mr. Vitter was one of her clients in the 1990s. The woman, Jeanette Maier, called him "one of the nicest and most honorable men I've ever met." Mr. Vitter's office did not immediately return a call for comment Tuesday night. |
SEX SCANDALS Long-sought number surfaces
BY ROSE FRENCH
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The three companies that insure the majority of Protestant churches in America say they typically receive upward of 260 reports each year of young people under 18 being sexually abused by clergy, church staff, volunteers or congregation members.
The figures offer a glimpse into what has long been an extremely difficult phenomenon to pin down -- the frequency of sex abuse in Protestant congregations.
Religious groups and victims' supporters have been interested in the figure ever since the Roman Catholic sex abuse crisis hit five years ago. The church has revealed that there have been 13,000 credible accusations against Catholic clerics since 1950 -- 228 a year.
Protestant numbers have been harder to come by because the denominations are less centralized than the Catholic church. Some of the only numbers come from three insurance companies -- Church Mutual Insurance Co., GuideOne Insurance Co. and Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Co. Together, they represent a large chunk of all U.S. Protestant churches.
Abuse reports don't always mean the accused was guilty.
Even with hundreds of cases a year ''that's a very small number. That probably doesn't even constitute half,'' said Gary Schoener of the Walk-In Counseling Center in Minneapolis. ''Sex abuse in any domain, including the church, is reported seldom.''
Insurance officials said churches are working harder to prevent child sex abuse by conducting background checks, installing windows in play areas and requiring at least two adults in a room.
Patrick Moreland of Church Mutual said churches are particularly susceptible to abusers.
''By their nature, congregations are the most trusting of organizations, so that makes them attractive targets for predators,'' he said.
You'd have to call Anita Bryant, the former beauty queen gone anti-gay zealot gone born again Christian gone divorced gone bankrupt orange juice spokesperson, a reluctant hero. But a
new exhibit in South Florida does just that, commemorating the 30-year anniversary of her crusade and its monumental unintended affects.
Anita Bryant in 1977: "I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children"
In 1977, singer Anita Bryant successfully campaigned to repeal a Dade County ordinance banning discrimination against gay men and lesbians. [The recently called home Rev. Jerry] Falwell came to South Florida in support and two years later created the Moral Majority. Jim Bakker, Pat Robertson and Phyllis Schlafly quickly joined Falwell in becoming outspoken opponents of gay rights.
"This is where they all had their stage debut," said Jack Rutland, executive director of the Stonewall Library & Archives and organizer of the exhibit "Days Without Sunshine: Anita Bryant's Anti-Gay Crusade
"
"In a completely unintended way, Anita Bryant was about the best thing to happen to the gay rights movement," said John Coppola, exhibit curator and former head of exhibits at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. "She and her cohorts were so over the top that it just completely galvanized the gay rights movement."
Rutland goes so far as to call Bryant the mother of the gay rights movement
Bryant, now 67, declined to comment when contacted at her Anita Bryant Ministries International Inc. in Oklahoma City.
Singing from the age of two, Bryant became Miss Oklahoma in 1958 and was a second runner-up in the 1959 Miss America beauty pageant. She had three big pop hits: "'Til There Was You" (1959); "Paper Roses" (1960); and "In My Little Corner of the World" (1960). In 1960, she married Bob Green, a Miami disc jockey, with whom she eventually raised four children. She became a spokeswoman for the Florida Citrus Commission in 1969, and nationally televised commercials featured her singing "Come to the Florida Sunshine tree", and opining that "A day without orange juice is like a day without sunshine".
concerns over homosexual recruitment of children inspired the name of Bryant's political organization, Save Our Children. Among Bryant's assertions during the campaign were "As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children" and "If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nailbiters."
Bryant was also a pioneer on the receiving side of getting "pied," as the YouTube video above shows. Before she took that pie in the face during an anti-gay press junket, such tactics were rare. So anyone who enjoyed seeing Ann Coulter pied should really thank Anita for leading the way.
But Anita's fortunes took a dive after she spoke out.
Her contract with the Florida Citrus Commission also was allowed to lapse because of the negative publicity generated by her political campaigns, the resulting boycott of Florida orange juice, and, at least reportedly, because of her divorce.
Her marriage to Bob Green failed at that time and in 1980 she divorced him. She married her second husband, Charlie Hobson Dry, in 1990, and they have tried to reestablish her career in a series of small venues. Commercial success has been elusive, and they have left behind them a series of unpaid employees and creditors. They filed for bankruptcy in Arkansas (1997) and in Tennessee (2001).
