Anti-gay California lawmaker resigns; caught boasting about cheating on wife with lobbyist [video]
“Even as he resigns in shame, former California Assemblymember Michael Duvall is wallowing in hypocrisy. While engaging in extra-marital affairs, he used ‘family values’ as a justification to vote against every bill that would have provided any measure of equal treatment or fairness to LGBT people. He used the same justification to support taking away the lawful right of same-sex couples to marry. Now he has the temerity to protest that his adultery (with lobbyists) ‘is a private matter’ and asks that ‘everyone respect the privacy of all involved?!”
Beginning of a press release from Lori L. Jean of the Los Angeles Gay Center regarding the resignation of Republican Mike Duvall from the California State Assembly. Duvall was exposed on a California TV news station boasting about two extra-marital affairs in lurid detail. He is said to have run for Orange County office on a platform of “family values” and has since consistently voted against measures of equality for GLBT people. (LA Gay Center)
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