Anti-Gay North Dakota Rep. Outed Via Dick Pic

[twonabomber]

http://gawker.com/anti-gay-north-dak...pic-1700750680

If prostitution is the world’s oldest profession, the world’s second oldest profession must be male politician with an anti-gay voting record who enjoys the dicks of men. Ladies and gentlemen, meet North Dakota House of Representatives member Randy Boehning (R).

The 52-year-old lawmaker got caught with his dick out by a 21-year-old named Dustin Smith, who chatted with Boehning on Grindr in March. During their interaction, Boehning sent Smith an unsolicited picture of his penis. Smith then approached The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead newspaper. On the app, Boehning went by “Top man!” and when asked if he was horny, he replied, “Always lol.”

On April 2, Boehning voted against Senate Bill 2279, which would have banned discrimination based on sexual orientation in North Dakota. The House eventually defeated the bill.

The Forum reports:

Boehning said before he voted against the anti-discrimination bill on April 2 a Capitol employee told him a fellow House lawmaker who supported the bill said Boehning would be targeted for retaliation if he didn’t vote for it. The 12-year veteran of the House still voted against 2279. He also voted against a similar bill in 2009 and would have in 2013, had the proposal not died in the Senate before a House vote.

Boehning had it coming in several ways. Openly gay Rep. Josh Boschee told The Forum “lawmakers from both parties have told him a gay Republican staffer at the Capitol who had been in contact with Boehning on Grindr since his last run for office had warned Boehning ‘there could be consequences for the hypocrisy of [his] vote.’”

Boehning claimed he voted against the bill because he didn’t think his constituents supported it, and he had a problem with the bill protecting those “perceived” to be gay. Clearly.

He initally refused to answer questions about his app-tivity when contacted two weeks ago. On Saturday, he told the paper, regarding his sending of a dick pic, “That’s what gay guys do on gay sites, don’t they? That’s how things happen on Grindr. It’s a gay chat site. It’s not the first thing you do on that site. That’s what we do, exchange pics on the site.”

On being outed, Boehning said, “The 1,000-pound gorilla has been lifted.” In addition to finally admitting that he’s attracted to men, Boehning says he’s also attracted to women.

[FORD]

Biggest irony of all.... the guy's name is pronounced BONEing!

[Seshmeister]

There have been so many of these stories but research is now backing up that the people that hate gays the most are usually closet gays.

http://www.ibtimes.com/homophobia-li...renting-435780

Homophobia Linked To Repressed Homosexual Arousal, Authoritarian Parenting
By Roxanne Palmer @rpalmerscience on April 10 2012 3:36 PM EDT

Here's a recipe for homophobia, psychologists say: Mix repressed same-sex attraction with authoritarian parents. Simmer for 18 or more years.

College students who said they felt more controlled or pressured by their parents tended to have a greater discrepancy between their reported sexual orientation and their actual orientation as determined by a psychological test, researchers from the University of Essex, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Rochester (N.Y.) found.

And students who had the greatest sexual identity conflict -- young men and women who reported a straight identity while scoring highest on homosexual tendencies -- also exhibited a number of behaviors consistent with homophobia. They tended to report more negative or fearful attitudes toward gays and lesbians, tended to be biased against homosexuals in hypothetical situations, and were more likely to endorse anti-gay policies.

In many cases these are people who are at war with themselves and they are turning this internal conflict outward, co-author Richard Ryan, a professor of psychology at the University of Rochester, said in a statement.

The scientists described their results in a paper published last week in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

The conjectured link between homophobia and unwanted homosexual tendencies has its roots in Sigmund Freud's description of reaction formation, a defense mechanism wherein a person overcompensates for emotions and impulses that cause them anxiety by aggressively pursuing the opposing tendency.

Other researchers have unearthed physical evidence to support this theoretical framework. In 1996, the Journal of Abnormal Psychology published a study from three University of Georgia researchers who studied homosexual arousal in self-identified heterosexual men.

In this experiment, the researchers hooked the subjects' penises up to devices that measured the degree of their erections, and showed them pornography. All the men responded to videos of heterosexual and lesbian intercourse, but only the men that showed signs of homophobia based on a questionnaire developed erections in response to homosexual male coupling.

Homophobia is apparently associated with homosexual arousal that the homophobic individual is either unaware of or denies, the Georgia researchers wrote in 1996.

One of the challenges to studying repressed homosexuality is, obviously, how to identify same-sex attraction in someone who says they are straight. No technique is fool-proof.

In the current study, researchers used a technique to identify subjects' implicit sexual orientation that involved sorting words and pictures into gay and straight categories.

But before the subject began the task, he or she was primed with a subliminal message: The word me or others was flashed across the screen for a fraction of a second, long enough to be unconsciously perceived but too quick to be consciously noted.

The researchers then measured how long it took the students to sort the pictures into the categories. If a subject was quicker to identify words and pictures associated with homosexuality than heterosexual ones after being primed with me, their implicit orientation leaned gay.

There are other limitations to these studies, the authors acknowledge; all of the subjects in the four studies conducted no longer live at home with their parents.

It may be helpful to test these effects in younger adolescents still living in the home and in older adults who have spent a longer time away from parents' influence, the authors wrote.

[Nitro Express]

Suck on my dick and I will fuck you up the ass but please don't pass gas.

[Angel]

Why do I think of Elvis when I read that?...