{"id":179714,"date":"2017-11-16T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/11\/16\/republican-family-values-3\/"},"modified":"2017-11-16T22:09:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T03:09:00","slug":"republican-family-values-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/11\/16\/republican-family-values-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Family Values"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wes Goodman, a Republican state representative in Ohio who has made the protection of, &#8220;Natural Marriage,&#8221; a center piece of his poltical personae, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2017\/11\/christian-gop-lawmaker-who-pushed-natural-marriage-resigns-after-same-sex-tryst-at-ohio-office\/\">has resigned after being caught having an affair with another man<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To paraphrase James Carville, it&#8217;s the hypicrisy, stupid:<br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">A Christian \u201cfamily values\u201d Republican lawmaker has stepped down from his post in Ohio\u2019s state House over revelations that he engaged in \u201cinappropriate conduct\u201d with another man at his legislative office, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/news\/20171115\/inappropriate-behavior-with-man-in-his-office-led-to-ohio-lawmakers-ouster\">said <i>The Columbus Dispatch<\/i><\/a> on Thursday. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">Wes Goodman, 33, a married former aide to U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), submitted a two-sentence resignation letter to the state Republican Party on Wednesday after a meeting with state House Speaker Cliff Rosenberger (R). <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI was alerted to details yesterday afternoon regarding his involvement in inappropriate behavior related to his state office,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/news\/20171115\/inappropriate-behavior-with-man-in-his-office-led-to-ohio-lawmakers-ouster\">said<\/a> Rosenberger in a statement on Wednesday. \u201cI met with him later in the day where he acknowledged and confirmed the allegations. It became clear that his resignation was the most appropriate course of action for him, his family, the constituents of the 87th House District and this institution.\u201d <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">No charges of harassment or abuse were filed against Goodman. The details of the incident are not clear, but apparently a witness to the two men\u2019s liaison reported Goodman to House Chief of Staff Mike Dittoe on Tuesday. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cRumors about Goodman\u2019s questionable conduct, including his use of social media, have been swirling at the Statehouse in the past few weeks and include stories dating back years to when he worked in Washington. His Facebook account was taken offline,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/news\/20171115\/inappropriate-behavior-with-man-in-his-office-led-to-ohio-lawmakers-ouster\">said<\/a> the<i> Dispatch<\/i>.<\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyone surprised by this?&nbsp; I&#8217;m not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wes Goodman, a Republican state representative in Ohio who has made the protection of, &#8220;Natural Marriage,&#8221; a center piece of his poltical personae, has resigned after being caught having an affair with another man. To paraphrase James Carville, it&#8217;s the hypicrisy, stupid: A Christian \u201cfamily values\u201d Republican lawmaker has stepped down from his post in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[387,436,374,486,448],"class_list":["post-179714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-hypocrisy","tag-lgbtq","tag-politics","tag-schadenfreude","tag-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}