Young Republican Leader Has Mouth-on-Dick Disease By Ann Rostow
Published: August 9, 2007
Yet another sleazy closeted Republican operative has busted into the news this week, this time the newly elected head of the Young Republican National Federation, 33-year-old Glenn Murphy Jr.
Murphy, who was elected last month after a six-month campaign for the position, resigned unexpectedly in an e-mail to his supporters a few days ago. The smarmy text informed his “dearest friends” that he’d had a “crazy weekend” trying whether to decide if he should accept a “life altering” business contract that obliged him to step down from the position he had so recently won.
“I spent the majority of my weekend shaking with anxious indecision,” he wrote. “I didn’t want to disappoint people. I didn’t want people to be angry. But I prayed with my family and we determined that I have to take this opportunity for my long-term security.”
What Mr. Murphy didn’t mention was that he was very likely about to be charged with criminal deviate conduct, a class B felony, after allegedly forcing oral sex on another man who was asleep at the time.
According to a police report, Murphy, the victim, and the victim’s sister had crashed at the sister’s house after a drunken Young Republican party on July 28 in Indiana. The victim awoke to find Murphy “holding my dick with one hand and sucking my dick with his mouth.” The man shoved Murphy aside, asking, “what the hell are you doing?” Murphy said nothing and the victim grabbed his clothes and left.
According to the report, Murphy later called the man and wanted to explain things. Murphy claimed he had found himself on the floor by the victim’s bed, and that the victim had started to run his fingers through Murphy’s hair while still asleep. Murphy, in turn, responded by caressing the unconscious man’s leg, and well, one thing led to another! The victim, who did not accept Murphy’s implausible scenario, told police that Murphy called him several times begging him not to report the matter. Murphy then hired a lawyer, Larry Wilder, who visited the victim to see if the situation could be “resolved.”
It couldn’t.
Making matters even more interesting is a police report from the same location, Clark County Indiana, from nearly a decade ago. Back in 1998, a different victim told police he had been sleeping, “when an acquaintance he had just met, Glen Murphy [sic], awoke him while doing oral sex on him while he was asleep.” The victim said he shoved Murphy backwards, “jumped up and ran to the restroom where he attempted to clean himself off.” The victim’s girlfriend was in the same room at the same time and woke when her boyfriend started yelling. She told police she saw Murphy extricate himself from under the covers and run out of the room.
I’m assuming no charges were filed, since Murphy went on to found the Clark County Young Republicans that same year. He served two terms as the chairman of the Indiana Young Republicans and was Clark County’s GOP chairman since 2001.
As for his national goals, he told the press last month that his goal was to double the membership of the Young Republican National Federation by November 2008. “I will essentially be the mouthpiece and effective leader for the tens of thousands of Young Republicans, 18 to 40 across the country,” he said.
But will they be awake at the time?
Bob Allen: Blacks Made Me Do It
Speaking of closeted Republicans behaving badly—an increasingly vast subject area—have you heard how Florida state representative Bob Allen explained away his rendezvous with an undercover cop in the men’s room of a Titusville public park the other day? You recall that Allen walked in and out of the facilities at Veteran’s Memorial Park several times, drawing the attention of some undercover cops who were on the lookout for a burglar. Finally, one of the cops went into the men’s room and sure enough, back popped Allen, who looked into the officer’s stall and said “hi.”
I won’t dig up the police report from the other week, but suffice to say that Allen, a married father of two girls, agreed to pay $20 if he could perform oral sex on the officer in a remote part of the park.
Now, Allen claims he was intimidated by the officer, “a pretty stocky black guy,” and scared of the “other black guys around in the park.” Afraid he was “about to become a statistic,” Allen told police he came up with the solicitation scheme in order to get away. “I certainly wasn’t there to have sex with anyone and certainly wasn’t there to exchange money for it,” Allen blustered insanely.
It’s not clear in his account why Allen was roaming the park at 3:30 in the afternoon. Nor did he explain why he entered the men’s room three times, let alone why he initiated a conversation with the frightening black dude in the next stall. And in a new detail, the Sun Sentinel reports that when Allen was taken under arrest, he asked “if it would help” that he was a state representative. The answer was no.
Fire Fighters Pissed Off At Pride Duty
Now, here’s an interesting tale.
It seems that the firefighters who volunteered to ride in the San Diego Pride Parade on July 21 had to cancel because one member of the team had a death in the family. I’m not sure why the rest of that unit couldn’t participate, but at any rate, the battalion chief ordered a different four-man team to represent the city fire department in the annual event.
The problem was that this particular division consisted of a bunch of homophobes, who strongly objected to riding in the parade, who complained about the assignment, and who refused to comply without a direct order. They were given a direct order, and they reluctantly donned their suits and drove their truck over to the staging grounds.
During the parade, their worst fears were realized when gay men blew kisses, rubbed their crotches, yelled provocative comments, and stuck out their tongues. To complicate matters, they were also given grief by Christian protesters who told them they were going to Hell. And finally, their colleagues ribbed them unmercifully.
The finicky foursome is now poised to sue the San Diego Fire Department for failing to protect them from sexual harassment on the job. Fire Chief Tracy Jarman, a lesbian, has apologized and promised to ask the San Diego Equal Employment Investigative Office to look into their complaints.
I guess my problem with this whole affair is this. I’m always pleased to see police officers and firefighters in the parade, displaying their solidarity with the GLBT community and making us feel as if we’re part of the larger life of the city etc. etc.. But the last thing I want is a crew of hard core gay haters, parading under protest, and barely containing their revulsion along the route. It’s an insult to the gay community to force a hostile contingent of firefighters to join our Pride celebration.
And how would gay or lesbian firefighters like it if they were ordered to show the colors at a parade or festival devoted to traditional family values?
Of course, firefighters and police can’t bring their political views to bear on their jobs when people’s lives are at stake. But showing pride and support for gay rights must be voluntary, otherwise it’s a worthless, if not counter-productive gesture, don’t you think? I’m not saying that their suit is valid or not valid. I’m just saying that disgust has no place in a pride parade, period.
In other firefighter news, the New York Post reports that a naughty video has led the Fire Department of New York to cut its ties with the annual firefighter calendar, even though the fund raising item generates $150,000. Apparently, 2008 calendar cover man Michael Biserta appears on a video displaying his “enormous member” in a hotel shower. And for those of you who must know, the video is called Guys Gone Wild, and is available somewhere on the web.
Department spokesman Francis Gribbon told the Post “we will no longer be participating in this. There will be no more calendars.”
Maybe the San Diego force can pick up the slack.
Bush Will Veto Hate Crime Bill
In other news, George Bush has pledged to veto the hate crime bill, even if lawmakers manage to attach it to the defense appropriations bill. White House spokesman Tony Fratto said the president will veto any bill that contains the hate crime language, because: “The qualifications [in the bill] are so broad that virtually any crime involving a homosexual individual has potential to have hate crimes elements. The proposals they’re talking about are not sufficiently narrow.”
This is utter nonsense. In fact, as Matt Foreman of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force pointed out, “the provisions of this legislation are identical to those that have been on the books since the 1960s. Just as those provisions have not led to any crime committed against a black person or a Jew constitute hate crimes, this legislation would not make any crime committed against an LGBT individual a hate crime.”
I, for one, would like to see Bush veto the defense appropriations bill. How the hell would he explain that to the American people?
As a matter of fact, there’s a ruling just this week out of New York that clarifies the use of the Empire State’s hate crime law. Three men with robbery on their minds deliberately picked a gay man to lure to a remote area, using a gay chat room because they thought it would be easy to convince a gay man to meet them somewhere. Indeed, Michael Sandy rendezvoused with the young thugs, who beat him up and chased him into traffic on the Belt Parkway. Sandy, 29, later died of his injuries.
Charged with hate crime enhancements as well as murder, the defendants claimed they didn’t “hate” gays, but simply thought they might be easy targets. But despite its name, the judge ruled that hate crimes don’t punish emotion, they punish criminals who select their victims based on race, sexual orientation, and the like.
“The grand jury evidence shows that this is not a case where hate crimes are charged simply because the victim just happened to be of a certain sexual orientation,” wrote Justice Jill Konviser. “Rather, this is case where the defendants deliberately set out to commit a violent crime against a man whom they intentionally selected because of his sexual orientation. Thus, the hate crimes charges in this case are consistent with the intent of the Legislature.”
Apparently, selecting victims based on sexual orientation is just fine with this administration. We wouldn’t want to hamper the free expression rights of violent robbers and killers.
Brits Tinker With Moth Sexuality
There’s more, but I’m running out of time and space. Our Gay Bishop Gene Robinson has come out in favor of Barack Obama. There’s a dust up in the Evangelical Lutheran Church, where dozens of clergy came out of the closet at a national assembly in order to protest the denomination’s requirement that gay ministers remain celibate. And Rex Wockner just sent me an e-mail about a gay moth. Hang on a second.
Apparently British scientists have developed a technique to trick brown-tailed moths into having homosexual sex in order to lower the population of the noxious pests and their poisonous rash-inducing larvae. The biologists douse the breeding grounds with female moth pheromones, and the males go crazy for all the new hatchlings, regardless of gender. The resulting confusion is enough to keep the unpleasant creatures in check.
Brown-tailed moths, we learn, are in fact white. With their “voracious appetite” they can strip an area of its greenery in a twink, causing skin irritations in the process. Lately, they’ve wrecked havoc on a lifeboat station at Spurn Point on the Humber estuary, home to seven itchy crew members and their disgruntled families.
