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Nashville Scene:

A doctor and his younger nurse fall in love. They continue their torrid affair even after his ex-wife tips off the nurse’s husband, a local politician, to the salacious goings-on. As the divorce moves forward, discovery turns up that the nurse is not just the doctor’s employee and his lover, but his patient, with a predilection for pain pills. And, oh, she’s his second cousin, too. But this is not General Hospital, not Grey’s Anatomy. This is the town of Hohenwald (pop. 3,703) in Lewis County, where bitter divorce proceedings have brought to light possibly unethical behavior by Dr. Joey Hensley, a Republican state senator who also happens to be a family physician—and one who has run for office since 2002 on a platform of conservative Christian values.

Joey Hensley has been married and divorced four times, according to the Randy Report, and when he's not fucking someone else's wife, Hensley is doing all he can to protect the family from the evil homos:

Hensley gained national notoriety in 2012 as a sponsor of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which would have banned public school teachers from even mentioning that homosexuality exists. During one hearing that year, Hensley commented, “I don’t think Modern Family is appropriate for children to watch”—because it features a married gay couple raising children. This session, Hensley is sponsoring a bill from the Tennessee Family Action Council that would make children created using donor sperm illegitimate—an attempt to make it harder for gay and lesbian parents to establish paternity.

Considering all the new forms of Republican hypocrisy we've been treated/subjected to over the last seven weeks, what Hensley is doing—protecting marriage and the family from the the gays when he isn't schtupping another man's wife or discarding his own—seems like a quaint throwback to more innocent times.