Conservative Texas Congressman Joe Barton, R-Ennis, is apologizing this week after naked photos of him appeared on an anonymous Twitter feed.
Barton, the 68-year-old traditional family values champion who is divorced from his second wife, Terri Barton, issued a statement today (Wednesday, Nov. 22), apologizing and explaining where the photo came from:
“While separated from my second wife, prior to the divorce, I had sexual relationships with other mature adult women. Each was consensual. Those relationships have ended. I am sorry I did not use better judgment during those days. I am sorry that I let my constituents down.”
(Interesting to note that in his statement Barton stressed that he had “consensual” sexual relationships with “other mature adult women.” I guess he wants to make sure everyone knows he isn’t a pedophile like Roy Moore and all those others sexual harassers.)
Barton, who announced his re-election bid last month, told Texas Tribune today that he is considering the fate of his future political career: “I am talking to a number of people, all of whom I have faith in and am deciding how to respond, quite frankly.”
Openly-gay Democrat John Duncan is running against Barton to represent Texas’ 6th District in Congress. Barton has been a steadfast foe of LGBT equality throughout his tenure in Washington, D.C., voting against ENDA, for amending the Constitution to ban marriage equality, for banning adoption by same-sex couples and more.
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Wow! What a “family-values kinda guy good ole Joe is!” Multiple marriage, plenty of liaisons between brides, graphic images of his sexual prowess. Just as long as there is no gay in it neither will there be any condemnation. BS! He is just as unacceptable as those at whom he points the accusing finger. The spotlight has finally made its way down to Texas where duplicity was born, bred and established as the abiding ‘way of life!