Your weekday morning blend from Instant Tea:
1. New York GOP Congressman Christopher Lee resigned late Wednesday after Gawker reported that he sent a shirtless photo (above right) to a woman who’d placed an ad in the “Women Seeking Men” section of Craigslist. Lee, who is married and 46, told the woman in a series of e-mails that he was a 39-year-old divorced lobbyist. According to the Associated Press, Lee had cultivated a family values voting record since being elected to the House in 2008. With so many sexually repressed conservatives in Congress these days, we look forward to an abundance of stories like this one over the next few years, and we can only hope some involve lawmakers from Texas.
2. A new iPhone app that allows users to make Catholic confessions is under fire from LGBT advocates for asking, “Have I been guilty of any homosexual activity?” The app, “Confession: A Roman Catholic App,” is currently ranked No. 22 in sales worldwide. (INSERT PEDOPHILE PRIESTS JOKE HERE.)
3. On the local front, there will be no 7-11 at Oak Lawn Avenue and Gillespie Street, after a property owner withdrew the proposal in response to concerns from angry Oak Lawn residents. The property two blocks southwest of the Cedar Springs strip previously was home to Tony’s Wine Warehouse but has been vacant for the last two years. Nearby residents and businesses were concerned about the crime and late-night traffic a 7-11 would bring. Among other things, the compromise reached Wednesday ensures that most crime will continue to occur near the Valero on Cedar Springs instead.
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his resignation is evidence that his political career centered on hypocrisy to judge others (abortion rights, LGBT marriage and DADT). Once exposed (no punn intended), he saw no way out. Good riddance to that POS.
Kama will eventually bite you in the ass for it. Somethings just need to be left alone. The world already thinks America is a bunch of sexual deviates but airing our dirty laundry in the press we lower our standards to those stereotypes. As a newspaper you should have standards to not air other people’s dirty laundry. It just makes the news media look bad and it makes America look bad. This invasion of privacy of our leaders and their family and celebrities has to end. It’s not right. This is how Princess Diana died because the press did not respect her privacy. The privacy of their congressman and his family needs to be respected as well. Think about what his wife and kids are going through. There has to be someone who says enough is enough. We don’t want to hear about sexual escapades of our leaders and celebrities. It just makes us look bad and I am tried of seeing it every time I pick up a newspaper because journalism has no standards anymore. Everything is about sex and violence. I sent you a suggestion on how to improve your paper by interviewing people who make a positive impact on the gay community but you continue to publish smut. That is very sad. Try something positive for a change. Have some journalism integrity and not publish smut. Respect our leaders and their family privacy. Their kids will have to deal with this everyday at school. Think about what they are going to have to deal with now. The media simply does not care about the families who are also the victims. Give them time to work out their own problems, but they should not have to work it on the front page of a newspaper or FOX NEWS. Please take the time and consider that,and then put yourself in his shoes. Would you like your personal life published in a newspaper?