Ore. to investigate gay mayor’s affair with teen [View All]

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Source: MSNBC

PORTLAND, Ore. - Four Portland newspapers and the city police union are calling on the mayor to resign, after he admitted he lied by denying he had a sexual relationship with a teenage boy.

Mayor Sam Adams admitted this week that he lied to cover up his relationship with a teenage legislative intern because a potential mayoral candidate had spread rumors that Adams had sex with a minor.

Adams, 45, said the teen was 17 when they met in 2005, and that the relationship did not turn sexual until the boy turned 18. He said he lied because he was afraid voters wouldn’t believe that his young lover had turned 18 before they started having sex.

Adams became mayor on New Year’s Day, making Portland the largest U.S. city with an openly gay mayor.

As newspapers called for him to step down, Oregon Attorney General John Kroger agreed to investigate whether a crime was committed.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28796802/

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I wonder if the mayor was straight, and the teenage in question was a woman, if the headline would have been "Ore. to investigate straight mayor’s affair with teen."