Abstinence-Supporting GOP State Lawmaker Admits To Sex With 22-Year-Old Intern

[manifold]

well let's see now, this guy had sex with a consenting adult. He doesn't think TEENS should be having sex. How is this guy a hypocrite?

You must've skimmed over this part.

Stanley told her, according to the official, that he "didn't believe young people should have sex before marriage anyway, that his faith and church are important to him, and he wants to promote abstinence."

 

[del]

i blame bush.

 

[manifold]

i blame bush.

You mean irresistably hot 22 yr old intern bush?

 

[geauxtohell]

well let's see now, this guy had sex with a consenting adult. He doesn't think TEENS should be having sex. How is this guy a hypocrite?

Exactly. He doesn't think "young people should be having sex before marriage", unless they are having sex with him.

Stanley recently sponsored a bill designed to prevent gay couples from adopting children. And when a Planned Parenthood official recently sought his support for family planning services for Memphis teens, Stanley told her, according to the official, that he "didn't believe young people should have sex before marriage anyway, that his faith and church are important to him, and he wants to promote abstinence."

C'mon.

 

[Immanuel]

well let's see now, this guy had sex with a consenting adult. He doesn't think TEENS should be having sex. How is this guy a hypocrite?

Good point, however, one would assume that his conservative stance as stated in the article means that fidelity to his spouse would be one of his family values. I tend to think that those kind of things go hand in hand. Maybe I am wrong.

Oh yeah, and I did forget that part about "before marriage" which would mean outside of marriage as well as adultery.

Immie

 

[elvis]

well let's see now, this guy had sex with a consenting adult. He doesn't think TEENS should be having sex. How is this guy a hypocrite?

You must've skimmed over this part.

Stanley told her, according to the official, that he "didn't believe young people should have sex before marriage anyway, that his faith and church are important to him, and he wants to promote abstinence."

oops. I read it but somehow missed the "marriage" part. sorry. he's a hypocrite.

what I saw the first time was "He didn't think young people should be having sex anyway."

 

[geauxtohell]

well let's see now, this guy had sex with a consenting adult. He doesn't think TEENS should be having sex. How is this guy a hypocrite?

Good point, however, one would assume that his conservative stance as stated in the article means that fidelity to his spouse would be one of his family values. I tend to think that those kind of things go hand in hand. Maybe I am wrong.

Immie

Well that and his whole "I don't think young people should be having sex before marriage".

It's pretty obvious that this is another social conservative flame out.

 

[del]

i blame bush.

You mean irresistably hot 22 yr old intern bush?

i was thinking george w. but you have a point

 

[elvis]

well let's see now, this guy had sex with a consenting adult. He doesn't think TEENS should be having sex. How is this guy a hypocrite?

Exactly. He doesn't think "young people should be having sex before marriage", unless they are having sex with him.

Stanley recently sponsored a bill designed to prevent gay couples from adopting children. And when a Planned Parenthood official recently sought his support for family planning services for Memphis teens, Stanley told her, according to the official, that he "didn't believe young people should have sex before marriage anyway, that his faith and church are important to him, and he wants to promote abstinence."

C'mon.

see my post above.

 

[Immanuel]

well let's see now, this guy had sex with a consenting adult. He doesn't think TEENS should be having sex. How is this guy a hypocrite?

Good point, however, one would assume that his conservative stance as stated in the article means that fidelity to his spouse would be one of his family values. I tend to think that those kind of things go hand in hand. Maybe I am wrong.

Immie

Well that and his whole "I don't think young people should be having sex before marriage".

It's pretty obvious that this is another social conservative flame out.

Right and I edited my post after reading the replies from you and Manifold (I think it was Manifold).

Immie

 

[Zoom-boing]

Whether he thinks young people (or any people?) should be having sex before marriage is besides the point . . . married people shouldn't be having sex with other people. He's a full blown jackass and so are all others of this ilk.

 

[elvis]

Whether he thinks young people (or any people?) should be having sex before marriage is besides the point . . . married people shouldn't be having sex with other people. He's a full blown jackass and so are all others of this ilk.

That's true, they shouldn't. the question is is he a hypocrite. and after I read it more carefully, he is.

 

[Zoom-boing]

Whether he thinks young people (or any people?) should be having sex before marriage is besides the point . . . married people shouldn't be having sex with other people. He's a full blown jackass and so are all others of this ilk.

That's true, they shouldn't. the question is is he a hypocrite. and after I read it more carefully, he is.

He's a hypocrite all right, no doubt about it. Do as I say . . . and I'll do as I damn well please. Why do these guys - a Senator, prominent position - think they won't get caught? That blackmail shit can be a real bitch, huh?

 

[xotoxi]

Paging Keith Olbermann. You can call off the search...we've found your Worst Person in the World for tonight.

Meet Tennessee state senator Paul Stanley. He's a solid conservative Republican and married father of two, who according to his website is "a member of Christ United Methodist Church, where he serves as a Sunday school teacher and board member of their day school." (Check out the religious imagery on the site -- the sun poking through clouds, as if manifesting God's presence -- which of course shows Stanley's deeply pious nature.)

Stanley recently sponsored a bill designed to prevent gay couples from adopting children. And when a Planned Parenthood official recently sought his support for family planning services for Memphis teens, Stanley told her, according to the official, that he "didn't believe young people should have sex before marriage anyway, that his faith and church are important to him, and he wants to promote abstinence."

So far, so far Republican. But you can see where this is going...

In a sworn affidavit, a Tennessee state investigator has said that Stanley admitted to having a "sexual relationship" with a 22-year-old female intern working in his office, and to taking nude pictures of her in "provocative poses" in his apartment.

Things started to unravel for Stanley, it seems, in April, when he received a text message reading:

Good morning sir, how are you this fine day? McKensie and I have been talking and I feel that I have a video and some pictures you might be interested in seeing. This is her boyfriend, that guy you met outside Walgreens.

That was the start of an effort by the girl's boyfriend to blackmail Stanley, which ultimately led to Stanley going to the cops. The boyfriend is now charged with trying to extort $10,000 from Stanley.

Oh, bonus! Stanley works as a financial adviser for the Stanford Financial Group, whose founder, Allen Stanford, has been charged with orchestrating an $8 billion scam.

Wonder if Stanley stays at C Street when he's in DC.

Late Update: It gets worse. In 1994, Stanley's first wife, Judy Martin, filed for a restraining order against him, charging that he had physically assaulted her three times. She wrote: "He was going out the door to leave our house and he hit me with a tremendous blow and then he proceeded to turn and run away from me outside the garage to the street." Stanley and Martin divorced the following year.

According to the Nashville Post, Stanley met his current wife, Kristi Stanley, soon afterwards, while both were working for Bill Frist's U.S. Senate office in Memphis. She was working as -- an intern.

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I don't see what he did wrong.

He didn't have gay sex.

He didn't have sex with a minor.

He beat his wife, but she probably deserved it.

He sounds like a nice guy...someone that any normal Tennesseean would relate with. I see him going very far.

 

[elvis]

Whether he thinks young people (or any people?) should be having sex before marriage is besides the point . . . married people shouldn't be having sex with other people. He's a full blown jackass and so are all others of this ilk.

That's true, they shouldn't. the question is is he a hypocrite. and after I read it more carefully, he is.

He's a hypocrite all right, no doubt about it. Do as I say . . . and I'll do as I damn well please. Why do these guys - a Senator, prominent position - think they won't get caught? That blackmail shit can be a real bitch, huh?

yeah he'll be resigning I'm sure.

 

[xotoxi]

Meet Tennessee state senator Paul Stanley.

Here he is in disguise:

 

[geauxtohell]

I don't see what he did wrong.

He didn't have gay sex.

He didn't have sex with a minor.

He beat his wife, but she probably deserved it.

He sounds like a nice guy...someone that any normal Tennesseean would relate with. I see him going very far.

You're killing me today.

I probably shouldn't have played hookie and sat at home and drank beer all day.

 

[elvis]

Meet Tennessee state senator Paul Stanley.

Here he is in disguise:

the starchild rules.

 

[geauxtohell]

Good point, however, one would assume that his conservative stance as stated in the article means that fidelity to his spouse would be one of his family values. I tend to think that those kind of things go hand in hand. Maybe I am wrong.

Immie

Well that and his whole "I don't think young people should be having sex before marriage".

It's pretty obvious that this is another social conservative flame out.

Right and I edited my post after reading the replies from you and Manifold (I think it was Manifold).

Immie

Yeah, we all were posting over each other. I think we are all on the same page now.

But my posts are too snarky for me to edit out.

 

[Modbert]

Another Republican who considers himself deeply Conservative AND Religious is caught screwing an intern?! You don't say.

As Mani pointed out, the "Beacon of Morality" party once again is showing the motto "Do as I say, not as I do."

I'm not surprised at this point, but to see another Republican knocked off the moral high horse is hilarious. Though it's hilarious when any politician is, it's more so hilarious when they take the "deeply family oriented and religious" stance that goes along with restricting the rights of those who their religion may disagree with.

This only leaves one question, WWJS?

Who Would Jesus Screw?