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Friday, November 23, 2012

Politics / Religion / The Ladies Screw As I Say...

Posted by Dan Savage on Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 9:10 AM

Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-TN), the former physician turned anti-abortion Tennessee Republican congressman, says he hadn’t given abortion as much thought as he “should have” when he supported his first wife’s decisions to have two abortions, and that he often used “very poor judgment” during his first marriage and the separation that followed it. He now looks back with regret, he says, on the sexual relationships he had with two patients, three co-workers and a drug company representative while he was chief of staff at Grandview Medical Center in Jasper.

But now that DesJarlais has given abortion a little more thought... he's come to the conclusion that abortion should be banned. It's just a coincidence that he ran out of wives and mistresses with unplanned pregnancies at roughly the same time that he concluded that abortion should be banned. Oh, and gay marriage should be banned because it's a threat to the kind of traditional family values that DesJarlais supports. There's no telling how many abortions DesJarlais' wives and girlfriends would have had, or how many employees and patients he would've fucked, if same-sex marriage were legal in Tennessee.

Nothing see here. Move along.

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Wow, it's almost like Conservative politicians are all hypocritical and/or stupid. I'm shocked!

Posted by Minerva on November 23, 2012 at 9:45 AM

Yeah, but it's Tennessee Republicans. You have to expect hypocritical pigs.

Posted by Pope Peabrain on November 23, 2012 at 9:53 AM

"We care so much about the moral fiber of this nation that we want to pass laws to keep you from making the same mistakes we made. This is what Freedom means!"

Posted by Clayton on November 23, 2012 at 9:54 AM

So long as he didn't suck any dicks, most of his constituents won't see this as a big deal. All those women who spread their legs for him are immoral sluts, but him, not so much. That's how Real America sees these things.

Posted by Ken Mehlman on November 23, 2012 at 10:07 AM

Yes, I heard about this family values spokesperson from JMG. The hypocrisy is beginning to stink.

Posted by Patricia Kayden on November 23, 2012 at 10:55 AM