From the article: The speaker's comments drew a loud ovation from representatives --a show of support that some observers thought was distasteful. Conservative blogger Holly Richardson was on-hand for the bombshell and said she understands that, while Garn's colleagues may have been paying respect for his service, "I still thought it was outrageous. He just admitted to paying $150,000 to a woman who he had had an inappropriate encounter with when he was twice her age," she said. "He was married. He was in the hot tub naked with this young girl and to have any kind of applause or anything was just stunning."
I thought the LDS weren't into this sort of thing anymore ~ just the FLDS.
Maybe we can recycle all our posts from last year!
In the meantime, he got caught and if he's a Republican he needs to step down. If he's a Democrat he should hang on a bit longer to prove to us they have some heterosexuals over there ~
It sure took a lot of work reading that article trying to figure out that this guy was a Democrat. That couldn’t have been an editorial oversight could it?
Who knew what when?
Monson has been the 16th President-"Prophet" of the church since Feb. 3, 2008. Did he cover this up?
Lds reporters @ the Deseret News, owned by the Lds church, were falling all over themselves in yesterday's article on this (see House Majority Leader Kevin Garn admits to incident with girl in past ) trying to explain why they knew the details about this in 2002 and yet didn't publish them.
Didn’t the girl make a deal previously instead of making him accountable and what does she hope to gain by bringing it out now?
paid her $150,000 as part of an agreement to conceal the story
Hasn't Maher broken this agreement by talking to reporters, and thus the law? Shouldn't she be charged? Or sued for the $150,000 plus damages?
Garn knew the girl when she was in fourth grade, age 9.
He was her sunday school teacher, and remained in a position of moral authority over her during the entire time of their "encounters."
The "hot tub" incident (she claims that there were numerous) occurred when she was 15, at the time an "employee" of Garn's. That indicates that she was "hired" at age 13 or 14, perhaps. And what job can a 15 year old "employee" do for company?
Garn and his LDS superiors used there positions of moral authority (for whatever that's worth) to ignore and cover up his behavior.
Garn, his church, his wife and son were used to coerce this girl/woman with guilt and religion.
The guy is a predator, a pervert, and a pedophile.
Welcome to Utah in all its glory.
Is this individual related to Jake Garn?