Here’s a shocker: The Michigan lawmaker who was caught fabricating a gay sex scandal to cover up his actual affair is proving himself to be a little unhinged. Who would have thought?
Rep. Todd Courser (R), a tea party lawmaker, has now taken to Facebook to…apologize? Well, not quite. Resign? Oh, definitely not. Squirm around in his own guilt and shame for no real apparent reason? Yeah, something like that.
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“I am now the poster boy for those who would say ‘God is dead,’ or ‘Christians are failures,’ or ‘Christians are hypocrites,'” he writes. “Instantly I have been shown to be a hypocrite in my life, a liar, a laughable joke; much if not all of that is presently justified.”
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Then there’s lots of to-be-expected Christ talk, which reads as typical guilty remorse. “He is still Holy and still righteous and still gave His all on the cross at Calvary so we can have salvation in Him,” Courser preaches from his keyboard.
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Though he’s a first-time legislator, Courser has already pulled the Jesus card when voting on issues like marriage equality and abortion rights (as did Cindy Gamrat, the married fellow Tea Partier he was actually sleeping with), so we aren’t exactly sympathetic to his little scheme not going smoothly.
“The most brutal things I have had to endure in my life have been brought from and thru this experience – the public humiliation was small and insignificant when compared to having telling [sic] my wife and children and my family – death will be a much richer reward,” he continues in the scripture-filled post.
Boo-hoo.
Cam
The typical victim posing of the right wing.
He wants to avoid the finger pointing directly at him, so he is almost trying to equate attacking HIM as attacking Christianity.
Nice try hypocritical bigot. You’re a liar, a hypocrite, and a thief. See there, that was easy, I pointed out your faults without attacking Christianity. Done
Xzamilio
I’m not even gonna say “Called it”… they just don’t vary from the script, so this tap dance was seen coming a mile away.
Sammy Schlipshit
“Death will be a much richer reward.”
Go for it, dude.
I sure won’t stand in your way.
Stenar
I don’t get why having sex with a rentboy was seen as better than the affair he was actually mixed up in. Weird logic.
lcandela123
He hasn’t apologized to the gay community, which he maligned, or announced any appropriate Penance. All he is is a self-serving mouth, still trying to pull the wool over the eyes of his sheep.
Billy Budd
I hope his death wish is fulfilled.
Homo Erectus
This is actually a pretty interesting story. He seriously thought it was BETTER to have a homosexual encounter with a male prostitute than admit to having a mundane, run-of-the-mill affair with a woman. Is this progress? I think this qualifies as progress!
Ladbrook
@Homo Erectus: No, not quite. I think the point was that he was trying to spread a nasty rumor about a rentboy that he would later accurately discredit and in doing so prove that the “left” was out to get him. THEN, when/if the actual affair came to light, he could either claim it was just more lefty witch-hunting OR say that it was “just a mistake” or some such, probably stemming from the gay rumor stress.
Or at least, I THINK that was the rational. Either way… it was insane and was clearly designed to cover up what Christians see as a moral flaw.
GayEGO
Todd Courser is doing one of the sneaky, hypocritical, things that GOPs do i.e. typical of a Repugnantan.
Ladbrook
So is he aware of the verses in the Bible calling for the stoning of adulterers? Hmmmm…..
I mean… since he likes tossing around Bible trivia and basing policy on it. Maybe his teabagger allies will “remind” him of it soon enough.
Soulforce1
@Homo Erectus: Actually, the idea that a gay tryst is so much worse than a hetero affair in the eyes of much of the nation (or at least eyes of the conservative) is NOT progress in my book.
AtticusBennett
typical religious-right hypocrisy and piety.
oh we’re ALL sinners and there’s sin in ALLLL OF US, and it was SIN and Jesus and Jesus forgives Sins when you Jesus your Jesus, also it’s everyone else’s fault that SIN because I have JESUS and the LEFT and SIN!
oh shut up.
Cam
So he committed adultery, and bore false witness.
He broke 2 of the 10 commandments. As a Christian, he is only at 80% on an open book test.
tsginamarieva
It is truly remarkable the high percentage of these cross nazis who are swinging from low branches in the brain forest. And they’re not just dumb as porch furniture, they’re proud of their stupidity. It’s a badge of honor. It’s also a mistake to call him and his ilk “conservative,” because they’re anything but. They barely understand constitutional conservativism, let alone want to fight to implement its principles.
The saddest part of the whole situation is that this walking turd is an elected legislator. He gets to help write the laws the people of his state have to live under. And the only moral lodestar they have is an inch-deep understanding of a few of the juicier scriptural quotes and whatever bullshit they’ve gleened l from teleevangelists and other cross nazis.
I’m about to make an important announcement: I will accept Jesus Christ as my personal lord and savior, I will henceforth and from this moment forward dedicate my entire life to His glorification – if he will just do me one small favor. I will become a born again Christian if God will strike down this bag of pus and all 19 Duggars. That’s the deal – God chalk outlines those 20 cross-loving crap stains and I’m his. Maybe, if enough of us offer that kind of deal,Yayway will start plinking praise monkeys to win us over!
Praise Jesus!
woodroad34
I’m pretty sure this fool has made a ton of bad decisions–he doesn’t sound like a fellow who thinks things through: a typically emotional, flatulent tea-partier. He’s starring with Jim Carrey in the next “Dumb and Dumber” movie.
BJ McFrisky
@Sammy Schlipshit:
@Billy Budd:
Glad to know there are “people” like you in the world who wish death upon those with whom they disagree politically.
Stay classy.
Will Moor
@Stenar: He didn’t think anybody would believe it. He figured that everyone would just see it as a lie being spread by his opponents, and so then if word leaked of his actual affair, people would attribute it to the same lying rumor mill and not believe it.
Will Moor
@BJ McFrisky: Was his affair and subsequent lies political?
Avery Alvarez
Ahh, fishing for pity.
It seems to me like he’s using this classic tactic of when being caught doing something wrong, overstate how sad and regretful you are, even attack your own character and wish for death, so that you come off looking like a sympathetic victim in need of a cheering up instead of “a hypocrite in my life, a liar, a laughable joke” who needs to be scorned.
So to me, this isn’t an apology. It’s just emotional manipulation. Add to that the anti-LGBT ish and he’s pretty much garbage. Of course, this apology isn’t to us. It has been tailored for his christian conservative base, which will no doubt eat it up.
twinkie1cat
Thou shalt not comitt adultery. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife.
Sounds like this teabagger broke a bunch of commandments yet he still did not do anything the Bible says is wrong by coming out as gay, even fakely. Huge hypocrisy here. What he needs to do is repent, confess and become a Democrat.
Homo Erectus
@Ladbrook: Oh, now I get it. That’s quite convoluted. You could even say, almost diabolical – as in, the Devil made him do it?
edensasp
Never met a “pretend” rent-boy. All the rent boys I know are real. Hmm.. Now which lie is true and which lie is false. Up is down. Down is up or maybe, up IS up and down IS down.
OzJosh
@Ladbrook: Yes, his rationale was that the accusation that he’d been with a rent boy was so utterly preposterous that a) nobody would believe it, so b) any further allegations against him – specifically in relation to the affair he was actually engaged in – would subsequently be dismissed as further attempts to smear him. The funny thing is that he actually believed that nobody would ever think he was gay or that he’d be with a rent boy. Such is the delusional nature of Christians who constantly vilify homosexuals. They somehow overlook the fact that non-Christians or more reasonable Christians don’t find it at all surprising that upstanding pillars of the community, however macho, turn out to be closeted or up to any and every sexual experience going. Either way, he’s a liar, a fraudster, massively delusional and with an extremely twisted set of moral values – in other words, unfit for office.
NoCagada
@Billy Budd: Eventually, they all are.
NoCagada
@BJ McFrisky: TOP IT, TOOPIT!!! TOP IT!
Hell, the bible says they should be stoned to death.
silveroracle
He’s just another douchebag who is unfit to be in office.
Alistair Wiseman
@twinkie1cat:
“What he needs to do is repent, confess and become a Democrat.”
If that was the case, he wouldn’t have to deal with the ten commandments. 🙂
OhHellNo
If God is real, Courser is what happens when God takes a dump.
Brad Krueger
Sucks to be him
billywonka
What a dou che.
Thomas Hammond
Pure michigan
Sheldon Siegel
“Death will be a much richer reward”? Here’s hoping he’s “rewarded” soon.
NJjoe
And I am supposed to be shocked by this? This has become a daily routine (and past-time) to the right wingers and Pastors.
Giancarlo85
Where are all the gay repuggers to defend this bigot?
Nowhere to be found once again! They only post in Hillary articles. Gay repuggers are really paid by the Log Cabin group to infest websites.
Alistair Wiseman
@Giancarlo85:
“Where are all the gay repuggers to defend this bigot?”
I would hope that “gay repuggers” would not defend the indefensible…which they haven’t. The Queerty article portrays this man as many things, but not a bigot. You might want to check on your usual, hateful rhetoric for more appropriate slanderous wording.
“Gay repuggers are really paid by the Log Cabin group to infest websites.”
Once again your imagination runs wild…also called lying. You have no proof for such an accusation. After all, according to you, Log Cabin Republicans are “mostly straight men”!
Billysees
@Avery Alvarez:
” Ahh, fishing for pity…So to me, this isn’t an apology. It’s just emotional manipulation. ”
Good observation.
Billysees
@Ladbrook:
” So is he aware of the verses in the Bible calling for the stoning of adulterers? Hmmmm….. ”
He’s more than aware of them now.
And so I doubt he’ll use scripture again to judge LGBTs.