Hypocritical-Christian-Republicans

Republican Sex Scandals
(Full list of scandals and sources at Moral Values)

Adelphia Communications Corp.: Donated large sums of money to some of the
most conservative members of Congress. They are also the first cable company
to offer hard-core adult movies to subscribers. Daily Kos article

Edison Misla Aldarondo, Republican legislator, was sentenced to 13 years in
prison for molestation of his daughter and her friend for eight-year period
starting when they were 9.

Randal David Ankeney, Republican activist, arrested on suspicion of sexual
assault on a child with force. He faces 6 charges related to getting a 13-
year-old girl stoned on pot and then having sex with her. Also accused of
sexually assaulting another girl. Denver ABC Article

Dick Armey (R-Texas), former professor, has been accused by The Dallas
Observer of sexually harassing female students.

Jim Bakker, televangelist with Pat Robertson at Robertson's Christian
Broadcasting network. Committed adultery with Jessica Hahn [1] and then
used charitable donations to pay her hush money[2]. Fellow televangelists
say he's gay. [3][4]Indicted on 23 federal charges of fraud, tax evasion, and
racketeering [5].

Bob Barr, Republican Congressman from Georgia. Sponsored the anti-gay
Defense of Marriage Act, saying "The flames of hedonism, the flames of
narcissism, the flames of self-centered morality are licking at the very
foundation of our society, the family unit." Was married three times. Paid for
his second wife's abortion (she also suspected he was cheating on her).
Failed to pay child support to the children of his first two wives and while
married to his third and present wife was photographed licking whipped
cream off of strippers at his inaugural party.

Merrill Robert Barter, Republican County Commissioner, pleaded guilty to
unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy. Booth Bay Register
Article

Robert Bauman, Republican congressman and anti-gay activist, was charged
with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar. Source:
Washington Blade

Parker J. Bena, Republican activist and Bush Elector, pleaded guilty to
possession of child pornography (including children as young as 3 years
old) on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal
prison and fined $18,000.

Louis Beres, chairman of the Christian Coalition of Oregon. 3 of his family
members accuse him of molesting them when they were pre-teens. Editor
and Publisher article. In August 06, Beres confessed. The Portland Mercury

Howard L. Brooks, Republican legislative aide and advisor to a California
assemblyman, was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession
of child pornography. Sacramento Bee article

John Bolton Bush's appointee ambassador to United Nations, corroborated
allegations that Mr. Bolton’s first wife, Christina Bolton, was forced to
engage in group sex have not been refuted by the State Department. Raw
Story Article

Mike Bowers Former State Attorney General, prosecuted the famous Bowers
vs. Hardwick case, based on Georgia anti-sodomy laws. Admitted to a 10-year
adulterous affair Slate article

Pat Buchanan presidential candidate, media talking-head. His campaign
refused to confirm or deny whether Pat has had chlamydia or any other
venereal diseases.

Andrew Buhr, Republican politician, former committeeman for Hadley
Township Missouri, was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy
with a 13-year old boy.

Ted Bundy campaigned for the Republican Party. Infamous serial rapist who
murdered 16 women. Source: BBC

Jim Bunn Congressman of Oregon: With his success due in great part to
support from the Christian Coalition, Bunn won his congressional seat,
then immediately ditched his wife (and mother of his five children),
married a staffer, and put his new wife on the state payroll for the unheard-
of salary of $97,500. Conservative Babylon

John Allen Burt, Republican anti-abortion activist, convicted of sexually
molesting a 15 year old girl at the home for troubled girls that he ran.
Source: Pensacola News Journal

Dan Burton, Republican Congressman who, while married, fathered a child
by another woman. Salon.com Article

George W. Bush, Republican president, accused in a criminal complaint and
lawsuit of raping Margie Schoedinger, who was later suicided. Accused by
Tammy Phillips, a former stripper quoted in the National Enquirer in 2000
saying she had an affair with Bush that had ended in 1999. Also noted by
Mrs. Blount whom G.W.BUSH while campaigning for her Husband Red
Blount and while G.W.BUSH was possibly A.W.O.L from the Air National
Guard at age 26 he was all over their 14 year old daughter.

Neil Bush, brother of G. W. Bush, in a March 2003 divorce deposition,
admitted repeatedly having sex with strange women who just showed up at
his room while on an Asian business trip. (Overshadowing the sex scandal;
the business scandal--see link.) Washington Post article.

John Butler, Republican activist, was charged with criminal sexual assault on
a teenage girl.

Ken Calvert, Congressman (R-Ca), champion of the Christian Coalition and its
"family values." Sued as an alimony deadbeat by his ex-wife. Said "We can't
forgive what occurred between the President and Lewinsky." In 1993 he was
caught by police receiving oral sex from a prostitute and attempted to flee
the scene.

Charles Canady, Congressman (R-Florida), Judiciary Committee member. Lied
to his constituents about his adulterous affair with Sharon Becker, which
caused her divorce.

Helen Chenoweth, Congresswoman (R-Id.). In 1995, Chenoweth had denied
having an affair when asked about it by The Spokane Spokesman-Review. In
1998 she called (in a campaign ad) for Bill Clintons resignation saying "I believe
that personal conduct and integrity do matter". Days later she admitted to a six-
year adulterous affair with a married associate. but now she claims a pardon
from a higher authority: "I've asked for God's forgiveness, and I've received it,"
she revealed.

Keola Childs, Republican County Councilman, pleaded guilty to sexual
assault in the first degree for molesting a male child.Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Article

Kevin Coan, Republican St. Louis Election Board official, arrested and
charged with trying to buy sex from a 14-year-old girl whom he met on the
Internet. Source: Newmax

Roy Cohn, continually condemned gays and gay rights. Was a closet gay who
died of AIDS. Wikipedia Article

Carey Lee Cramer Political consultant and anti-Kerry ad producer, tried for
molesting two young girls, one of whom lived with him, and was 8 yrs old;
the other starred in an anti-Kerry commercial. Diary Diary. The Monitor.

Dan Crane, Republican Congressman, married, father of six. Received a 100%
"Morality Rating" from Christian Voice. Had sex with a minor working as
a congressional page. Salon.com article On July 20, the House voted for
censure of Crane, the first time that censure had been imposed for sexual
misconduct.[6]

Paul Crouch Televangelist, Former President of Trinity Broadcasting Network
(TBN). Paid $425,000 in hush money in an attempt to cover up a gay
affair. Christianity Today article

Richard A. Dasen Sr., Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups,
convicted of sexual abuse of children, promotion of prostitution and
several counts of solicitation, enough to add up to a sentence of 126 years
in prison. Investigators estimated that he spent up to $5,000,000 on
prostitutes. Missoulian Article on the trial

Richard A. Delgaudio, Republican fundraiser and Bush pioneer, was found
guilty of child porn charges. WBAL Channel article

Peter Dibble, Republican legislator pleaded no contest to having an
inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl. News Channel 8 Article

Nicholas Elizondo, Director of the Young Republican Federation molested his
6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison. Halfway
down this Bakersfield Californian article

Thomas B. Evans, Jr. -R Congressman from Delaware may have had an afair
with Paula Parkinson (see his article for more info).

Larry Dale Floyd, Republican Constable in Denton County, Texas Precinct
Two. Arrested for allegedly crossing state lines to have sex with an 8-year
old child and was charged with 7 related offenses. Age 62 at time of arrest.
Dallas News Article | Atrios Article

Mark Foley, Republican Representative, Florida Sixteenth Congressional
District. Resigned after trying to solicit sex from male congressional pages
via an instant messenger program. The conversations included his asking a
sixteen-year-old "stud" whether his penis was erect and requesting that he
take out and measure his penis. The cover-up involved Republican House
Majority Leader John Boehner, Ohio Eighth Congressional District and
Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert, Illinois Fourteenth District.

John Fund, of the Wall Street Journal, a prominent anti-abortion columnist and
GOP fund raiser. He lost his position after it was revealed that he
impregnated the daughter of an old girlfriend and then encouraged her to
abort his child. American Politics Journal Article

Jeff Gannon Partisan blogger with no journalism credentials and a fake name
who got invited to Bush's Press conferences. Is also a pimp and a gay
prostitute. Truthout Article. See also dKospedia's page on Jeff Gannon.

Jack W. Gardner, Republican Councilman, had been convicted of molesting a
13-year old girl. when the Republican Party, knowing of these crimes, put
him on the ballot. Article with documents

Richard Gardner, a Nevada State Representative (R), admitted to molesting
his two daughters. Review Journal Article

Newt Gingrich, Republican Speaker of the House, married three times.
Gingrich campaign worker Anne Manning admitted that she gave Newt
oral sex while he was still married to his first wife. Informed one wife he
was filing for divorce while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer
treatments. Salon article

Philip Giordano, Republican mayor sentenced to 37 years for forcing two 8
and 10 year old girls to perform oral sex on him in his City Hall office.
NBC Article | Newsday Article

Rudy Giuliani, Republican mayor of New York, presidential candidate, had an
adulterous affair. Pocketed $80,000 for speaking at a charity benefit for
tsunami aid which raised only $60,000 for the victims themselves (Feb
2005).

Matthew Glavin, president and CEO of the Southeastern Legal Foundation, big
player in the Clinton Impeachment, and many anti-gay jihads, has been arrested
multiple times for public indeceny, one time fondling the crotch of the
officer who was arresting him. Full Article

Marty Glickman, Republican activist, was taken into custody by Florida
police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with a juvenile and one
count of delivering the drug LSD.

Mark A. Grethen, Republican activist, convicted on six counts of sex crimes
involving children. Orlando Weekly article

Jon Grunseth, Republican businessman and candidate for Minnesota governor,
withdrew his candidacy after allegations surfaced that he went swimming
in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter, and tried to
grope one. "I've made some mistakes" he said. USA Today article

Dr. W. David Hager Bush appointee, member of Focus on the Family's
Physician Resource Council, player in movement to ban the morning-after-pill.
Had an adulterous affair, before divorcing his wife he sexually abused her,
including sodomizing her in her sleep. Article

Mark Harris, Republican city councilman who is described as a "church goer,"
was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and
sentenced to 12 years in prison.

John Hathaway, Republican Senate candidate, was accused of having sex with
his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations
were reported in the media. Source: Casco Bay weekly

Howard Scott Heldreth, anti-abortion activist who gained fame during the
Shiavo media-circus, was convicted of two charges of raping a child in 2002.
page at Florida Department of Law Enforcement's Sexual Offender/Predator
Unit

Mike Hintz, a First Assembly of God youth pastor, introduced by Bush on the
campaign trail, and promoted his policies. Says he supports Bush's values. Two
months later, this married father of four turned himself into police, charged
with the sexual exploitation of a child. ArticleCommentar Also signed an ad
(that called for criminally prosecuting business that sell porn), along with another
pastor who was repeatedly busted for public masturbation.

Neal Horsley has called for the arrest of all homosexuals. Admitted on the Fox
News Radio's The Alan Colmes Show, that he's had sex with mules. Put
photographs on his Web site of naked men engaging in homosexual acts
and a nude woman engaging in bestiality amid shots of grotesquely
maimed fetuses. Drug dealer convicted of possession of hashish with intent
to sell. He calls for "the establishment of a new government, one that can
obey God's plan for government."

Tim Hutchinson, divorced his wife of 29 years to marry a congressional aide he
was having an affair with.

Henry Hyde, Republican Judge who oversaw Clinton's impeachment
proceedings, prominent opponent of reproductive rights, who had an
extramarital affair with a woman who was married and had three children,
during the course of which she and her husband were divorced. Salon.com
article

Don Haidl, Assistant Sheriff of Orange Country, in violation of California's
rape shield law, led a smear campaign against the child his son poisoned
and then violently gang-raped on videotape, adding up to 24 felony
counts. He said that his son "acted accordingly" because the child was a "slut".
The full gruesome story, with many newspaper articles.

Paul Ingram, Republican Party leader of Thurston County, Washington,
pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in
federal prison. Source: The Olympian

Bernard Kerik, had two simultaneous adulterous affairs.

Earl Kimmerling, sentenced to 40 years in prison after he confessed to
molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from
adopting her.

I. Lewis Libby, former Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to Vice
President Dick Cheney. In 1996 published a novel containing bizaree sexual
content, including beastiality and pedophillia.

Rush Limbaugh, Republican radio personality, triple-divorcee[7], 30-pill a day
drug addict. Goodies from The Smoking Gun.com

Bob Livingston, former Congressman (R-La.) resigned from the House in the
wake of revelations about his past adultery.

Donald Lukens, Republican Congressman, was found guilty of having sex
with a minor - a girl he was accused of sleeping with since she was 13. Time
Article

Pat McPherson, Douglas County Election Commissioner. Arrested for
fondling a 17-year-old girl.

Jon Matthews, Republican talk show host in Houston, was indicted for
indecency with a child, including exposing his genitals to a girl under the
age of 17. Source: ABC News

Jeff Miller, (R-Cleveland), Senate Republican Caucus Chairman in Tennessee
and the sponsor of Tennessee’s Marriage Protection act, getting divorced (as of
April 2005) because of an affair he was having with an office aid. Miller
described the Tennessee Marriage Protection Act as a means of preserving
the sanctity of marriage. He opposed an amendment, however, which
stated that “Adultery is deemed to be a threat to the institution of
marriage and contrary to public policy in Tennessee.” [8] [9]

Nicholas Morency, Republican anti-abortion activist, pleaded guilty to
possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to
anybody who murders an abortion doctor The Dallas Morning News article.

Sue Myrick, Congresswoman (R-NC), describes herself as a "devout
Christian." Committed adultery with a married man.

Bill O'Reilly Right-wing conservative talk show host on Fox News, sued for
sexual harrassment by his producer.

Bob Packwood, Senator (R-Ore.), resigned in 1995 under a threat of public
senate hearings related to 10 female ex-staffers accusing him of sexual
harassment.

Jeffrey Patti, Republican Committee Chairman, was arrested for distributing
what experts call "some of the most offensive material in the child
pornography world" - a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped. Daily
Record News Article

John Paulk, lied about prowling for gay sex while running a fundamentalist
group to cure gays.

Brent Parker Utah State Representetive. Arrested for soliciting sex from an
undercover officer posing as a male prostitute. KSL News Article |Deseret
News Article

John Peterson, Congressman (R-Pa), accused of sexual harassment and
creation of a hostile work environment by six women. Peterson has refused
to admit a crime, saying only "I may have been an excessive hugger."

Harvey Pitt, SEC Chief under George W. Bush until he was forced to resign in
2002. Worked for New Frontier Media, a firm which distributed teen sex
videos.

Mark Pazuhanich, Republican judge, pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-
year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation. Pocono Record article

George Roche III, carried on a 19 year affair with his son's wife, while
serving as Republican, president of Hillsdale College, which "emphasizes the
importance of the common moral truths that bind all Americans, while
recognizing the importance of religion for the maintenance of a free society."

Beverly Russell, County Chairman of the Christian Coalition, sexually
molested his step-daughter, Susan Smith, who later drowned her two
children. Herald-Journal Article |Commentary on Newsweek Article

Jack Ryan, 2004 Republican nominee for US Senate from Illinois, pressured
his wive, actress Jeri Ryan, to have sex with other men. Tricked her into
visiting sex clubs, where he asked her to have sex with him while others
watched.[10]

Joe Scarborough, former Republican Congressman, currently a conservative talk
show host. Resigned his congressional seat abruptly to spend more time
with his family, amidst allegations of an affair. His intern, Lori Klausutis,
was soon after found dead in his office. The medical examiner, who had
his license revoked in Missouri for falsifying information in an autopsy
report, and suspended in florida for six years, ruled the case an accident,
after giving conflicting information about her injuries. He said he lied
about them because "The last thing we wanted was 40 questions about a
head injury."

Ed Schrock, two-term republican congressman, with a 92% approval rating
from the Christian Coalition. Cosponsor of the Federal Marriage Amendment,
consistently opposed gay rights. Married, with wife and kids. Withdrew his
candidacy for a third term after tapes of him soliciting for gay sex were
circulated.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger, right wing conservative radio host. Promotes family
values, estranged from her mother, opposes birth control, has had her tubes tied,
espouses saving oneself for marriage, admits to having had sex before she was
married, opposes adultery, has committed adultery while she was married,
and has slept with a married man, opposes divorce, is divorced and remarried,
has posed for nude photos which are available online.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republican governor, had sex with a 16 year old
when he was 28.

Jean Schmidt, OH-2, though not herself implicated, employed a campaign
manager (Joe Braun) in her 2005 election who once wrote an article
condemning gay men for running sex ad profiles, and who was then accused of
running his own sex profile on Collarme, an S&M sex site. The profile
called for "submissives" to wear only a collar and handcuffs and to have
hot wax dripped on them. DKOS Diary

John Scmitz, right-wing republican congressman, who had his committee
chairship taken away from him in the California State Senate after issuing
a press release attacking Jews, feminists and gays. Forced out of office in
1982 for having an adulterous affair and fathering two children out of
wedlock with one of his students. He was caught because his baby was
admitted to hospital for having hair tied so tightly around his penis that it
was almost severed. His daughter, Mary Kay LeTourneau, was convicted
of having an adulterous affair with one of her students, and giving birth to
two of his children. Wikipedia article

Larry Jack Schwarz, Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state
representative, fired after child pornography was found in his possession.
Rocky Mountain News article With his political career over, he went to work in
the hard-core pornography industry for Platinum X Pictures, owned by his
daughter, porn starlet Jewel De'Nyle (Stephany Schwarz). Wikipedia article

Jim Stelling, Seminole County Republican Party chairman who believes in
"family values", as he told a judge. Filed a defamation lawsuit against Nancy
Goettman, a former county GOP executive committee member, for falsely
claiming he had been married six times. Stelling has been married 5 times.

Don Sherwood, Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Eventually admitted to an affair with a woman 30 years younger than him,
after she accused him of physical abuse and attempting to choke her. Post-
Gazette article

Tom Shortridge. Republican campaign consultant, was sentenced to three
years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl. LA
Times article

Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr., Republican City Councilman, pleaded no contest to
raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison. Sex Offender
Registry page | Article

Craig J. Spence, Republican lobbyist, organized orgies with child prostitutes
in the White House during the 1980s. Full page including Washington Times
article Discovery Channel documentary

Jimmy Swaggart, Republican televangelist, said during a sermon "I'm trying
to find the correct name for it … this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic
stupidity of men marrying men. … I've never seen a man in my life I
wanted to marry. And I'm gonna be blunt and plain; if one ever looks at
me like that, I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died." Had an affair with
a prostitute.

David Swartz, Republican County Commissioner, pleaded guilty to molesting
two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison. Rocky
Mountain News Article

Randall Terry, Right to Life activist, founder of Operation Rescue, involved in
the Terri Schiavo protests. Once imprisoned for sending former President
Bill Clinton an aborted fetus. His son Jamiel is gay; his daughter Tila had
sex outside of marriage, became pregnant, had a miscarriage - she is no
longer welcome in his home; his daughter Ebony had 2 children outside of
wedlock and became Muslim. He has campaigned against infidelity and
birth control, gays and unwed mothers. Terry himself was censured by his
church after committing adultery.

Bill Thomas Republican congressman, had an affair with Deborah Steelman,
a health care lobbyist who steered huge campaign gifts to Thomas' war
chest.

Strom Thurmond, republican senator and racist, raped and impregnanted a 15-
year old African American maid. (BBC Article)

Robin Vanderwall, Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate,
director of Faith & Family Alliance, (a Christian Coalition spin off), former
student of Pat Robertson's Regent Universtity, member of Ralph Reed's inner
circle who funneled money to from lobbiest Jack Abromoff to Reed [11],
convicted in Virginia for soliticing sex from a 13-year-old-boy[12] and on
four other counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.
Virginian-Pilot Article

J.C. Watts, Representative (R-Oklahoma), loud champion of "moral values."
Has out-of-wedlock children.

Jim West, Spokane Mayor. Supported a bill, which failed, would have barred
gays and lesbians from working in schools, day-care centers and some state
agencies. Voted to bar the state from distributing pamphlets telling people how
to protect themselves from AIDS. Proposed that “any touching of the sexual or
other intimate parts of a person” among teens be criminalized. Had a sexual
affair with an 18 year old boy.Source: Spokesman review

Keith Westmoreland, a Tennessee state representative (R), was arrested on
seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to minors under 16 (i.
e. exposing himself to children). Tennesean Article

Stephen White, Republican preacher. Was arrested after allegedly offering
$20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him. Daily
Pennsylvanian article | Daily Yale News Article

Prosecutors are investigating allegations Congressman/Felon Randy Cunningham
was periodically supplied with prositutes.[13]