Is Scott Palmer gay also??
Maybe that's what the 'Rats are attempting to imply.
http://illinoisissues.uis.edu/features/2002sept/hastert.html
Hasterts inner circle consists of a small, trusted group of aides, mostly all white and all male. Stokke, his political adviser, and Scott Palmer, his chief of staff, have worked with Hastert for years. They know Illinois politics as well as the national scene. While in Washington, the three room together in a townhouse Hastert owns, where none of them has cooked a meal since 1986. Says Hastert, I made tea once. His sons also have bunked at the townhouse.