Alabama AG Busted

While still listed as “rumor” things are moving quickly since word broke a few days ago. King, who was heading up the McCain campaign in Alabama, has already been scrubbed from McCain’s website.

Following in the footsteps of gay bathroom hook-up king Larry “Wide Stance” Craig and hypocritical homosexual pastor Ted Haggard, the extremely anti-gay Attorney General of one of America’s most conservative states has been accused of occupying a closet of his own, although the allegations have not been proven.

Alabama Attorney General Troy King has been at the center of a maelstrom of rumors recently, alleging that he was about to resign his position after his wife discovered him in an alleged homosexual affair.

The whispers have grown increasingly loud, although King’s employer has denied them. The Governor’s office recently denied that King was resigning, so it’s entirely possible that the rumours are just that. The blogosphere and the Alabama media, who it must be said are not exactly impartial observers, are treating it as a case of "where there's smoke, there's fire".

The Locust Fork News and Journal reports: “The word is, according to multiple sources in Montgomery and elsewhere, that King was recently caught by his wife in a gay affair with a male aide and banished from his home.

“According to Tara Hutchison in the executive office of the governor they have heard of no plans in the works for King’s resignation. She said she had not heard that he had been kicked out of his home because of a gay affair.

“Governor Bob Riley’s press office had refused to return multiple phone calls from this independent press outlet even though some sources accuse Riley of perpetrating the leak. The attorney general’s press office also declined to return phone calls seeking comment.”

King will attract extra attention on this issue due to his attempts to outlaw sex toys in the state and anti-gay views. He has been an opponent of gay rights since his college days, when he wrote a letter to the University of Alabama’s student paper that included the lines: “The existence of the Gay/Lesbian alliance on this campus is an affront to the state of Alabama, its citizenry, this diversity and its students...

“One has but to look at the forces which the controversy has united--from the American Civil Liberties Union to the National Organization of Women to the Queer Nation just to name a few--to clearly see how corrupt a cause this truly is.”

Charming guy. Another “Family Values” politician. It’s only a matter of time…

And this from Alabama's Locust Fork Journal.

Read through the comments to find a few updates on this story.

And so it goes.

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