Comments on: Portland gay mayor hangs tough, won’t resign

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:25:14 +0000

Sam Adams you should hang tough and do your job for the people in your city. I do not consider what you have done as being wrong. God loves us just the way we are.

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:12:19 +0000

The mayor did nothing illegal. So what if the young man was more than twenty years younger. I see that in hetro relationships, and…so what? It was a private matter and should be left a private matter.

By: JayC

JayC — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:06:43 +0000

The “big deal” is that he is gay. You can bet gays are going to be held to a different standard for a long time to come. It’s been the same for women and blacks in high profile positions.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:48:32 +0000

I agree 100% with Bud. He was in a consensual legal relationship and I still do not see what the big deal is.

By: RMNY

RMNY — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:16:54 +0000

Nobody should have to explain a private relationship to nobody.

By: Bud Burgoon-Clark

Bud Burgoon-Clark — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:00:52 +0000

Good for him! Nobody thinks ANYTHING about it when “breeder” Rethuglicriminals divorce their first wives and trade them in for one or more blond “trophy” wives twenty or thirty years their junior. They’re regarded as (UGH!) “studs.”

One of my lovers was twenty years my senior; another was twenty years my junior; what’s the problem?

In the above cases, as with Adams and Breedlove, it was mutual, consensual, and Breedlove was 18.

NEXT!

Bud Burgoon-Clark
San Diego CA

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:18:19 +0000

The mayor has really poor judgement and is not very savvy. It’s a good idea to leave sexual liasons that even have an aura of being inappropriate alone. Not that it was illegal, but it is bad PR.

In any event, the mayor should have released a statement that at no time did he “have any sexual relationship with a minor”. This would be a true statement, and the young man in question could have affirmed that “the mayor’s statement is true”. No lies, no scandle for the press to pounce on.

Sure, the press is going to have a field day with the story, but you don’t have to spoon feed them lies, which ooze out a juicy “gay sex scandle”.

The mayor did not do anything wrong in bed, but he lied. The public has and should have a problem with dishonestly from people in positions of public trust.