Nominee for GOP Sexual Hypocrite of 2011: IN State Rep Phil Hinkle offers $80 for sex w/male teen

I posted about this all over my social networks earlier today, but I thought I'd put in my 2 cents here.

Bil Browning has one of the most egregious cases of Republican Sexual Hypocrisy that I've seen in a good while. The Indiana legislature apparently has a bumper crop of anti-gay, self-loathing closet cases who are a danger to the state's LGBT population...and now another one is about to bite the political dust.

While I exposed state representative Jud McMillin's tortured past earlier in early March, including sending unwanted photos of the himself masturbating with his balls tied to an office chair leg to a domestic abuse victim he was supposed to be representing as a deputy prosecutor, several juicy tips came in that just weren't verifiable enough for me to feel comfortable printing the story.

One of the most frequently e-mailed subjects was Republican representative Phil Hinkle. While none of my correspondents could provide any actual proof, three different men told me they had met Rep Hinkle for sex in an Indianapolis hotel room. All three were able to describe Rep Hinkle's penis in detail and all three descriptions matched, but it just dint' seem like enough for me to print the allegations.

Now the Indianapolis Star has been given the smoking gun. In a story running this morning, the Star has seen proof that the long-serving legislator offered a teenage boy $80 for sex after finding the young man on Craigslist and they've printed the salacious details.

Hinkle deals us a pile of WIN on this one.

The emails, sent from Hinkle's publicly listed personal address, ask the young man for "a couple hours of your time tonight" and offer him cash up front, with a tip of up to $50 or $60 "for a really good time."

The email exchange is in response to the Craigslist posting in which the young man -- who lists his age as 20 in the ad but says he is 18 years old -- says, "I need a sugga daddy."

The young man told The Star that they met, but that he tried to leave after the man told him he was a state lawmaker. He said the lawmaker at first told him he could not leave, grabbed him in the rear, exposed himself to the young man and then later gave him an iPad, BlackBerry cellphone and $100 cash to keep quiet.

It gets worse, with calls from the wife on the aforementioned Blackberry, who cares less about whether the teen's sister is telling her that hubby Hinkle is gay, than whether she might call the cops, and offers the two $10K to shut up. It's a sordid mess.

As I read about Hinkle and his "problem," all I could think about was how many of the Republicans in the North Carolina General Assembly who are virulently anti-gay and pushing this marriage amendment are similarly boinking boys (or girls, for that matter) outside of the sanctity of their holier-than-thou marriages. If you're going to moralize with your vote for the sake of enshrining bigotry in a state constitution, you should be concerned about having a "Hinkle problem" explode in your face.