Tea Party Lawmaker Caught in Affair: Jesus Died for My Sins, and Thus, I Can Sin

[CanonRay]

State Representative Todd Courser has been embattled in a national scandal ever since news broke that he tried to diffuse a marital affair by concocting a story that he was sleeping with a male prostitute in hope that when the truth of his affair came to light the scandal would seem trivial.

Now Courser has taken to Facebook to ask for the public’s forgiveness, explaining that Jesus died for his sins, and thus if Jesus can forgive, the public obviously should forgive.

http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/08/tea-party-lawmaker-caught-in-affair-jesus-died-for-my-sins-and-thus-i-can-sin/







I KNEW he'd take the je-heezus forgave me route! Being a Republican means you never have to apologize.

[irisblue]

1. Jesus forgave you,

the rest of us know you are an asshole.

[Eleanors38]

17. Actually, not a bad reading of Christianity.

[WinkyDink]

18. And that would explain Hell how?

[Eleanors38]

23. Haven't the slightest. I was answering #1.

[WinkyDink]

32. If Jesues forgives every sinner, then why would Christianity have a Hell? As a man-cave? But then, I

was raised as a Catholic, and we don't truck with the "I'm saved on accounta I believes!" American Protestantism.

[Eleanors38]

33. The poster pointed out Jesus forgave the sinner, and presumably instructed

him/her to go and sin no more. His forgiveness didn't imply anything else, and didn't pro forma insulate him from the social opprobrium he might face from others. Sort of like "blessed are the peace-makers" did not imply how the peace was obtained; hence, the naming of a firearm "Peacemaker."

So, if the zipless wonder of a legislator thinks Jesus' forgiveness entitles him to carry on as if nothing else need be said, or any other consequence should not be expected, he has another thing coming.

[milestogo]

2. Thank you, Jesus.

[libdem4life]

3. I'm thinking his wife might not agree. Theologically speaking,

Jesus said there was only one sin for which a spouse could divorce...and that was adultery.

Not that I, divorced myself, believe that, but when you're using the Good Book and Jesus Saves/Forgives for cover, you'd better know what else it says.

Said Book/Jesus doesn't actually refer to faking a gay relationship to cover it up, but this is the New Age. Then again, lying is frowned upon, as well.

No matter what, he's definitely in a Lot of Trouble.

[Turbineguy]

4. I understand

there's a little wiggle room on Number 7 if you double up on the condoms.

[smirkymonkey]

5. Honestly, how do these people always get away with this shit?

I mean it never, ever seems to stick to them. What up?

[Eleanors38]

19. From what I've read, Something is sticking to him.

[malaise]

6. So what happens when he commits murder? Of course his Jebus never forgives

progressives.

Resign you stupid fuck! You and your cheating teabagger lover.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. Jeebus might forgive him for firing the staffer ...

... who refused to participate in the diversion/coverup nonsense.

But he should still be cast out of the temple of legislation in Lansing.

[Laurian]

8. He just needs to shut up and slither away.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. He seems to be a little unclear on the concept.

Jesus forgave the woman who had committed adultery, but he also told her, "Go, and sin no more." In other words, you might get forgiven, but you are also supposed to stop doing it.

[City Lights]

10. The height of arrogance on display right there.

[Initech]

11. Being a *Christian* republican means that you can get away with anything!

And this is why we can't have nice things.

[RandiFan1290]

12. Evangelical Perverts nt

[Vinca]

13. Am I wrong to wish him a case of the clap? LOL.

[DirkGently]

14. Hooboy. Beware the waving Bible.

Another data point in the growing body of evidence that people who shout religion as their authority for crushing others (Courser was a huge anti-gay marriage advocate) generally have some kind of creepy box of weird in the back of the closet.

Could have been just an affair, sure. Happens all the time. But not for this guy. Nooooo. His first thought was to make up a tawdry, back-alley gay sex scandal about himself in order to detract from the actual affair.

Because that makes perfect sense and will totally fool everyone and is totally not something a crazy person would come up with.

A Tea Party Michigan state lawmaker arranged a smear campaign against himself to lessen the impact of an extramarital relationship he was having with a fellow lawmaker, reported CBS News. The lie Republican Todd Courser made about himself is actually worse than his affair, by Tea Party Christian standards.

Courser, a married father of four, had an aide create and distribute an anonymous email stating that Courser was “caught behind a Lansing nightclub” having sex with a man. Courser was actually having an affair with fellow Tea Party lawmaker, state Rep. Cindy Gamrat. The lawmakers reportedly used their taxpayer-funded offices to maintain and hide their affair.

They are described as “socially conservative legislators who often invoke their Christian faith in pursuit of new legislation governing gun rights, abortion, and marriage.” An audio recording revealed Courser saying the email is intended to be “a complete smear campaign” and should make the actual affair look “mild by comparison.” Michigan House Speaker will ask the nonpartisan House Business Office to determine “whether there was a violation of House rule or any evidence of illegal behavior.”

http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/08/sex-sex-everywhere-with-teabaggers-pimps-male-prostitutes-affairs-and-teabag/

[waddirum]

22. I believe the Lansing nightclub dumpster sex

to be the wishful product of Rep. Courser's vivid imagination. I could very well be the truth.

[DirkGently]

24. My intuition goes there as well.

It so often seems the case that people obsessed with other people's sex lives are coming from a terror of the sexual fantasies scuttling about their own repressed brains.

I would sooner leave a child or a small animal with a convicted felon (non violent) than with a religious zealot.

[yeoman6987]

28. I agree. I don't mind anyone being Christian at all

But for goodness sake not 24/7. Go to church Sunday and pray before a big meal should be more then adequate. Some take it too far. They always say that doing anything to excess is not good including church.

[DirkGently]

29. If they're hitting others over the head with it

... they have something to hide, is my experience.

I've known plenty of decent people of faith, and crusading against who other people sleep with or who can adopt, or how women handle their bodily needs is not at the top of their agenda.

There is a look to the creepy ones. Flawless helmet hair and a vacant expression. A queer eagerness to dive into the perverted.

Mike Huckabee, volunteering that had transgender people been tolerated in his day, he'd have walked into the girls' showers to leer.

Their dark desires are never closer to the surface then when they're railing about the supposed sins of others.

[brentspeak]

15. Courser's story gets weirder

In Rovian fashion, to gain a sympathy vote, helping him win his party's last primary: http://wonkette.com/592784/michigan-teabagger-fornicator-also-accused-himself-of-child-molestation-for-jesus#E1fbQfibSIwubLPD.99

[DirkGently]

25. Whoa. Weirder indeed.

Hall said that a “source with intimate knowledge of Courser’s operations” confirmed that Courser had printed out the fliers himself and planted them around the district “in a sickening and twisted attempt to bolster his chances at election” by making himself look like a victim of underhanded opponents. Courser posted a dramatic photo of one of the fliers to his Facebook page the week before the election, along with a pained condemnation of how low our political discourse has fallen:

Read more at http://wonkette.com/592784/michigan-teabagger-fornicator-also-accused-himself-of-child-molestation-for-jesus#RIIgqkrkYv04r8gZ.99

[Eleanors38]

16. Horse bucking in the wrong stall?

[WinkyDink]

21. Or foot-tapping.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

20. We wouldn't want Jesus to have died for nothing - so let's get to sinnin'

That's a new twist.

[gratuitous]

35. Not all that new

Paul covered it in the sixth chapter of Romans. His take on the notion of "Should we sin more that grace may abound" was "God forbid."

[RandySF]

26. He can cite Jesus all he wants

but the Good Lord will have no say whatsoever about Abuse of State Property depending on how the investigation goes.

[jberryhill]

27. I have an invisible friend who forgives me for anything I do

[flygal]

30. His whole facebook page is just abortion crap - Democrat peer of his is nothing but serious issues

like roads and child care. Jesus Christ the Democrats are doing all the work and these idiots are just preaching their gospel and the people keep voting them in for more of it. How does anything get done in red states.

[restorefreedom]

31. forgive doesn't mean

having to take it on the chin. people may choose to forgive him, but that is not a pass on any legal or political consequences (divorce, losing his job etc).

if he thinks otherwise, he is an idiot.

[Iggo]

34. Score yourself five bonus points for Three Syllable Jesus.

(Extra points available for pushing it to the fourth syllable: "Je-HEE-zus-uh".)