Porch Cleaning

I am going to start this segment "Porch Cleaning" to post news stories where politicians or religious leaders who preach hate and bigotry but then are caught in a scandal that goes totally against what they have been preaching. My grandmother, God rest her soul, always said "Don't be sweeping someone else's porch until your own doorstep is clean.   A lesson that I have tried very hard to live by and believe that more should as well.  Anywho, for the first installment of "Porch Cleaning" via JMG ;

Indiana state republican Representative, Philip Hinkle has been caught in a prostitute scandal via craigslist.  Hinkle was the representative who forced the state to offer an "In God We Trust" license plate and also recently voted in favor of a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.  Local newspapers have acquired the emails soliciting the prositute via craigslist.

Emails shared with The Indianapolis Star suggest that state Rep. Philip Hinkle - responding to a local posting on Craigslist -- offered a young man $80 plus tip to spend time with him Saturday night at the JW Marriott hotel.  The emails, sent from Hinkle's publicly listed personal address, ask the young man for "a couple hours of your time tonight" and offer him cash up front, with a tip of up to $50 or $60 "for a really good time."  The email exchange is in response to the Craigslist posting in which the young man -- who lists his age as 20 in the ad but says he is 18 years old -- says, "I need a sugga daddy".  The young man told The Star that they met, but that he tried to leave after the man told him he was a state lawmaker.  He said the lawmaker at first told him he could not leave, grabbed him in the rear, exposed himself to the young man and then later gave him an iPad, BlackBerry cellphone and $100 cash to keep quiet.

So another politician wrapped up in a gay sex scandal...shocking I know!   I may start mailing brooms to these people so they can do a little porch sweeping!!