Fargo lawmaker sent explicit photo, claims disclosure was payback for vote on gay rights bill

[lafinjack]

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[mercystars]

"How can you discriminate against the person you're trying to pick up?"

Oh you sweet summer child....

[that_which]

"Politics makes strange bedfellows," he said.

Apparently, in this case, so does Grindr.

Without weighing in on the subject of outing (and for the record, I don't actually believe he was threatened, I think he's trying to spin himself as a victim of teh evul gay conspiracy), I'm not sure how a public official who regularly sends pictures of his penis to strange men he's trying to have sex with is closeted in any meaningful way to begin with.

I am kind of amused that he's OK with gay people losing their jobs and not being able to find a place to live, but he's up in arms because he's being bullied.

[lafinjack]

I think he's trying to spin himself as a victim of teh evul gay conspiracy

[that_which]

I did, actually. How terribly silly of me.

[moonshaz]

[nicosian]

He says he's not gay, but yet, I don't really know many straight dudes who go and sexting and chatting and exchanging dick pics on a gay-heavy app site.

I mean, he's stuck his head out of the closet to yell "I'm not in the closet" and gone right back in.

[lafinjack]

"he's stuck his head out"

[nicosian]

hahah

[moonshaz]

By the way, how is this dude's name pronounced? When I read "Boehning," I think of, well, something that rhymes with "moaning." Which would add yet another layer of LMAO to this, IF that's the correct pronunciation.

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[lafinjack]

'Boning', of course.

[moonbladem]

And of course, the speaker of the house has been called "Boner".