(SALEM, Ore.) - "He who lives in a glass house should not throw stones."
Randal David Ankeney - Republican activist
- arrested on suspicion of sexual assault on a minor
- charged with 6 counts of providing a 13-year-old girl with "pot" before having relations
- accused of sexually assaulting a 2nd girl.
Jim Bakker - televangelist
- committed adultery with Jessica Hahn
- used charitable donations to pay for her silence
- several fellow televangelists believe he's gay
- indicted on 23 federal charges of fraud, tax evasion, and racketeering.
Bob Barr - Republican Congressman (Georgia)
- sponsored the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act
- married 3x / paid for his second wife's abortion
- failed to pay child support to the children of his first 2 wives
- photographed licking whipped cream off of strippers at his inaugural party.
Parker J. Bena - Republican
- pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography / lying to the FBI
- sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.
Louis Beres - past chairman of the Christian Coalition of Oregon.
- 3 family members accused him of molesting them as children
- Beres confessed
John Bolton - President George W. Bush's choice for ambassador to the United Nations
- accused by former wife of forcing her to participate in a "group relations"
- several sources link Bolton to Plato's Retreat - a NYC swinger's club
Jim Bunn - Congressman (Oregon)
- supported by the Christian Coalition
- immediately after election abandoned wife and 5 children to married a staffer
- put his new wife on the state payroll ($97,500)
George W. Bush - President of the United States
- accused of raping Margie Schoedinger, who in turn died in a questionable case of suicide.
- accused of having an affair with Tammy Phillips, a former stripper
- wife of Red Blount, a Republican candidate during Bush's Air National Guard
days, accused GWB of engaging in inappropriate behavior with her 14 year old daughter
Neil Bush - brother of G. W. Bush,
- admitted having repeated "relations" with unknown women during Asian business trip.
- questionable ties to the security of the World Trade Towers in the 9/11 attacks
Ken Calvert - Congressman (R-California)
- champion of the Christian Coalition
- sued for withholding child support
- caught in the act with a prostitute by police officers
- attempt to flee the scene unsuccessful
Helen Chenoweth - Congresswoman (R-Id.)
- admitted to a six-year adulterous affair with a married associate
- Chenoworth's response: "I've asked for God's forgiveness, and I've received it"
Mark Foley - Republican Representative, Florida 16th Congressional District
- resigned after trying to solicit sex from male congressional pages
- cover-up iincluded Republican House Majority Leader John Boehner and Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert
Newt Gingrich,
- married 3x while spouting Christian values the entire time
- filed for divorce while one wife was in the hospital recovering from cancer treatments.
Philip Giordano - Republican mayor of Waterbury, Connecticut
- sentenced by a state court to serve 37 years for forcing two little girls to engage in crimminal acts in his Waterbury City Hall office.
- phone records and pictures linked Giordano with a prostitute, her 10-year-old niece and her 8-year-old daughter
Matthew Glavin - president and CEO of the Southeastern Legal Foundation,
- major proponent of the Clinton Impeachment
- arrested multiple times for public indecency
Neal Horsley - right wing advocate
- admitted on the Fox News Radio to engaging in indecent acts
- convicted of possession of hashish with intent to sell.
Lewis "Scooter" Libby - Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney
- convicted of perjury but prison sentence commuted by the President.
- published a novel containing bizarre sexual content
Rush Limbaugh - talk show pundit and advocate of moral values
- divorced 3x.
- anti-drug crusader with a 30-pill a day drug addict.
- his placed himself open to criticism by repeatedly making trips to "tourist" locations notorious for attracting western pedophiles
- one of his drug arrests occurred while returning from the Dominican Republic.
Jeff Miller, (R-Cleveland) -Senate Republican Caucus Chairman in Tennessee
- sponsor of Tennessee’s Marriage Protection act to preserve the sanctity of marriage.
- divorced in April 2005 after an "office affair"
- then opposed an amendment to the Marriage Protection Act stating that “Adultery is deemed to be a threat to the institution of marriage and contrary to public policy in Tennessee.”
Joseph M. McDade - Pennsylvania Republican congressman (36 years)
- charged with public exposure
Bill O'Reilly - host of the "O'Reilly factor"
- sued for sexual harassment by his producer
- settled for an undisclosed amount of money
Bob Packwood - Senator (R-Ore.)
- resigned in 1995 rather than face public senate hearings concerning allegations of "sexual harrassment" by 10 female ex-staffers
- 19 women (including a 17 year old) testified to his repeated harrassment while Packwood was "under the influence"
- instead of showing remorse, Packwood attempted to use his position to intimidate witnesses
George Roche III,
-charged with 19 year affair with his son's wife,
- she committed suicide with a handgun
- Roche III resigned from public life
Joe Scarborough - Republican Congressman
- resigned after allegations of having an affair with intern
- Scarborough's female intern then found dead in his office
- medical officer declared the death an accident but license revoked for falsifying information in an autopsy report
Ed Schrock - Republican Congressman
- 92% approval rating from the Christian Coalition.
- Co-sponsor of the Federal Marriage Amendment opposing gay rights.
- married with children
- political career ended after tapes of "soliciting" for gay sex surfaced
Dr. Laura Schlessinger - right wing conservative radio host,
- promotes family values / estranged from her mother,
- opposed to birth control hysterectomy
- opposed to adultery / has committed adultery while she was married,
- opposed divorce / divorced and remarried,
Arnold Schwarzenegger -California Republican governor
- admitted during a Oui interview that at 28 having relations with a 16-year old .
- in Oregon that could have placed him in a correctional facility
Joe Brauns - campaign manager for Republican legislator Jean Schmidt
- accused of running his own sex profile on Collarme, an S&M sex site
Jimmy Swaggart - televangelist
- exposed another Assemblies of God minister (Marvin Gorman) for having an affair with a parishioner
- the next year Swaggart then exposed Jim Bakker's sexual indiscretions
- stated on the Larry King Show stating that Bakker was a "cancer in the body of Christ."
- Marvin Gorman's private-detective later took pictures of Swaggart in a Louisiana motel with a prostitute
Randall Terry - founder of Operation Rescue,
- imprisoned for sending former President Bill Clinton an aborted fetus.
- censured by his church after committing adultery
Strom Thurmond - southern republican senator and racist According to information revealed toward the end of his life
- raped a 15-year old African American maid.
- quietly sent child support payments to his mother of his child
Jim West - Spokane Mayor
- attempted to stop gays and lesbians from working in schools, day-care centers and some state agencies
- had an affair with a 18-year old male
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