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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Politics / Life / LGBTQITSLFA Today in Inspired, Fully Justified Bitchery

Posted by David Schmader on Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:39 PM

Yesterday, Minnesota State Senator Amy Koch took a break from her pushing-for-a-constitutional-amendment-to-outlaw-gay-marriage schedule to admit to and apologize for an adulterous affair with a Senate staffer.

Today brings an official response from the gays. As City Pages reports:

The gay and lesbian community of Minnesota has issued a letter of apology to recently resigned Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch for ruining the institution of marriage and causing her to stray from her husband and engage in an "inappropriate relationship."

"On behalf of all gays and lesbians living in Minnesota, I would like to wholeheartedly apologize for our community's successful efforts to threaten your traditional marriage," reads the letter from John Medeiros. "We apologize that our selfish requests to marry those we love has cheapened and degraded traditional marriage so much that we caused you to stray from your own holy union for something more cheap and tawdry."

Read the full report on Minnesota's apologetic gays here, and thank you, Slog tippers Erin and Danielle.

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I think you mean Minnesota, not Missouri.

Posted by Jimbo on December 22, 2011 at 12:42 PM

hell yes!

Posted by mr. herriman on December 22, 2011 at 12:51 PM

1: Gah! Thanks, fixed.

Posted by David Schmader on December 22, 2011 at 12:54 PM

Standing up to skanky bullies. I love it.

Posted by Vince on December 22, 2011 at 1:01 PM

Actually, it's kind of nice to read of a female politician being caught with her "dress up" vs. a male one with his "pants down". Adds a little variety.

Posted by lark on December 22, 2011 at 1:05 PM

Don't these homos know it's a God-given right of us heteros, and only heteros, to cheat on their spouses? If God wanted them to be capable of adultery he would have said they could get married.

Posted by NateMan on December 22, 2011 at 1:10 PM

@5 Wow. That's sexist.
Why can't the man be wearing a dress?

Posted by Allyn on December 22, 2011 at 1:10 PM

@7 I think you need to adjust your sarcasm meter.

Posted by GlamB0t on December 22, 2011 at 1:28 PM

@8 I've read that I'm supposed to use the sarcasm/jokey font, but I'm not capable of all that formatting...

Posted by Allyn on December 22, 2011 at 1:32 PM

That's awesome. Perfectly pitched snark there.

Posted by Reverse Polarity on December 22, 2011 at 1:41 PM

It sounds passive-agressive/

Posted by sirkowski

on December 22, 2011 at 1:50 PM

I'm not fully convinced that they're sincere in their apology.

Posted by Looking For a Better Read on December 22, 2011 at 2:17 PM

As wonderful as that letter is, a couple additional clicks showed an amazing follow-up story about how the MNGOP is fast-cycling through scandals trying to replace Amy Koch, entitled "The MNGOP All-Scandal Team: Can't anybody here play this game?"

It covers the three candidates who withdrew from contention for the MNGOP chair.

http://blogs.citypages.com/
blotter/2011/12/
mngop_all-scandal_team.php

Posted by Chris Matthews Voice: HA! on December 22, 2011 at 2:24 PM

That apology letter is the best thing I've read all month. What a Christmas present!

Posted by Clayton on December 22, 2011 at 3:02 PM

That is the most heart warming apology letter I've ever read. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside.

Posted by SeattleKim on December 22, 2011 at 3:54 PM