While we enjoy the latest evangelical-minister-revealed-to-be-a-big-fat-homo scandal here in the United States, Sweden is enjoying a gay sex scandal of its very own.

Now this is remarkable because Sweden’s homosexuals are fully enfranchised citizens, and places like Sweden typically don’t have that many gay sex scandals. When a nation depoliticizes homosexuality, when it allows gay people to be who and what they are without paying a steep social or political price, fewer homos choose to live their lives as tormented closet cases. So places like Sweden don’t see many Ted Haggards or Mark Foleys come tumbling clumsily out of the closet.

Meet—well, meet an unnamed official of Sweden’s Christian Democrats, “a party known for its strong adherence to family values.” Unnamed Official was spotted at a public pool giving a handjob to another man. While the gays are tolerated in Sweden, public sex is not—the law in Sweden classifies public sex as “molestation.” Unnamed Official probably could have gotten away with the handjobs, but Unnamed Official wanted something more…

The two men are then alleged to have moved on to another part of the building, where the politician was spotted giving oral sex to his companion.

The police were called, the men were questioned. But it was all a big misunderstanding, says Unnamed Official:

When questioned about the allegations, the politician denied taking part in any sexual activities on the swimming pool premises.

“I understand that it could have looked like that,” [he said] to police. Instead he explained that the whole thing was a misunderstanding. He had been leaning over to read his companion’s newspaper when the pool employees arrived on the scene.