Alabama's first openly gay lawmaker threatens to 'out' officials having extramarital affairs

The Birmingham News ^ | January 26, 2015 | Kent Faulk

[2ndDivisionVet]

Alabama's first openly gay state legislator fired back on Facebook over the weekend, including a threat to expose the affairs of state officials, to comments made by Republican Party officials in the wake of a federal judge declaring the state ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional.

State Rep. Patricia Todd, D-Birmingham, said she was elated and in "shock" when the judge issued the order overturning Alabama's same-sex marriage ban.

But after seeing comments by Republican officials, particularly from Alabama Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard, and seeing Attorney General Luther Strange's efforts to get a stay of the judge's orders, Todd fired off an emotional Facebook post making a threat to expose politicians' dalliances.

"This (is) a time where you find out who are accepting, loving people. To say I am disappointed in Speaker Hubbard comment's and Attorney General Strange choice to appeal the decision is an understatement. I will not stand by and allow legislators to talk about 'family values' when they have affairs, and I know of many who are and have. I will call our elected officials who want to hide in the closet OUT," Todd stated in her Facebook post over the weekend.

Todd would not name, at least yet, anyone she was referring to in her Facebook post regarding affairs....

[Moonman62]

Cities are full of liberals and other weirdos even in conservative states.

[Morpheus2009]

Maybe she can just do me a favor and drop all the names out for everyone on the list right now! I really don’t like adulterers in public office, and I despise long waits, always makes it feel like someone saying they have a list is making $%^$ up!

[Morpheus2009]

I would very much appreciate being neither, saves me a lot of work to repent of either of those sins. God doesn’t approve of either action.