Is Governor Charlie Crist Gay? Should We Care? | Psychology Today

Contents:

• CHARLIE CRIST RPONDS TO ALLEGATNS OF GAY AFFAIRS REVEALED IN JIM GREER INVTIGATN
• FORMER FLORIDA GOVERNOR CHARLIE CRIST IS GAY AND DNK — AND OTHER UNFOUND ALLEGATNS
• CHARLIE CRIST ISN'T GAY, OKAY?
• FORMER FLORIDA GOVERNOR CHARLIE CRIST RPONDS TO RUMORS OF GAYNS AND DNK GOLF-CARTG
• CHARLIE CRIST ACCED OF GAY AFFAIRS, DNKEN RAMPAG
• IS GOVERNOR CHARLIE CRIST GAY? SHOULD WE CARE?
• CHARLIE CRIST’S WHOPPG ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ MISSTEP
• FORMER GOV. CHARLIE CRIST: GAY MARRIAGE STANCE WAS POLIL
• CHARLIE CRIST GAY RUMORS FURTHERED BY ALLEGATN HE APPOTED GEE LEMIX SENATOR TO SILENCE HIM

CHARLIE CRIST RPONDS TO ALLEGATNS OF GAY AFFAIRS REVEALED IN JIM GREER INVTIGATN

Former Florida Governor Charlie Crist has rpond to allegatns that he paid two men to nceal gay told WTSP of Tampa Bay the charg -- revealed documents relatg to the vtigatn of former Republin Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer -- are "a bunch of lnal li. [Warng: graphic language below]The gay allegatns agast Crist first surfaced a Florida Department of Law Enforcement Invtigative Report ntag tails on an exchange between Chase and John Man, whose law firm Crist works at Florida:Chase had ntacted Man, as Chase believed Man was the attorney reprentg Crist, to set up a time where Chase uld pose Crist. Charlie Crist was a homosexual and had homosexual relatnships wh at least two men who were paid to leave the state to avoid embarrassg then Governor Crist.

FORMER FLORIDA GOVERNOR CHARLIE CRIST IS GAY AND DNK — AND OTHER UNFOUND ALLEGATNS

Governor Crist attemptg to n people over while toxited and operatg a golf allegedly told Chase that his accatns were nothg more than flammatory remarks tend to embarrass Crist and that even if the former ernor were gay, they still wouldn't relate to the charg Greer fac or nstute grounds for impeachment. The former state GOP chair has nied that was the is expected to face trial on July, a look back at gay sex sndals:10 Gay Sex SndalsPopular the CommunyYou May Like. Charlie Crist is actually a rampant dnk and closeted homosexual, but we do know that former Republin Party of Florida chairman Jim Greer is a sperate, sperate man.

CHARLIE CRIST ISN'T GAY, OKAY?

So, Greer's lawyers have cid to publicly air accatns that Crist had gay affairs, tried to n over people while dnk drivg a golf rt, and once tried to kiss Greer himself. It's alleged he ed a fundraisg pany, Victory Strategi LLC, to divert about $100,000 om the RPOF to his own pockets.Crist ni he had any knowledge of this happeng, so Greer's lawyer, Damon Chase, leaked the followg allegatns to a Tampa news statn:Crist paid two men he had gay relatnships wh to leave the state.Crist once tried to kiss Greer at a Beverly Hill HotelCrist was a big dnk who had his secury tail ver up embarrassg episos while he was ernor.He once tried to n over people while dnk drivg a golf rt.Chase rmed Crist's lawyer, John Man, that he would brg up the allegatns unls Crist agreed to change his ttimony. That havg been said, let's relish , Crist is gay and had affairs wh at least two men — both of whom he paid off to leave the state.

Andrew Sullivan talked to the owner of a gay bar Crist was alleged to equent who told Sullivan pot blank that Crist was gay. ” It’s not okay to quote a iend sayg that Crist is gay.

I have worked agast Crist for 13 years, and Florida reporters will tell you I’ve never had much tert the gay mors, the allegatns of paid-off boyiends, the stori of e e, trashed hotel rooms, and excsive drkg, the quickie divorce plete wh sealed urt rerds, the illegimate dghter story, or the ugly ctody battle volvg his stepdghters. He had always been charge of makg Charlie’s problems go away, such as discsed earlier regardg the 2006 mpaign and the mors about two alleged gay lovers and an alleged out-of-wedlock dghter.

FORMER FLORIDA GOVERNOR CHARLIE CRIST RPONDS TO RUMORS OF GAYNS AND DNK GOLF-CARTG

Those gay eptns uld have kept om beg ernor. The woman marryg the gayish ernor om the sultry southern state actually mak beards. "Outrage, " a documentary that claims to expose closeted homosexualy among elected officials who have taken stanc agast gay rights issu - cludg, says, Florida Gov.

He said gays and lbians are locked the largt civil rights stggle the Uned Stat today and his film exam hypocrisy among lawmakers that has set back the movement. Every time Crist is asked if he’s gay, he giv the same answer: a simple no.

CHARLIE CRIST ACCED OF GAY AFFAIRS, DNKEN RAMPAG

Wh his permanent tan and slick whe mane, he’s more like a kr, gentler Lat Amerin udillo, who wants nothg more than to be cheered on by adorg the notn that Print Obama is a secret Mlim, the ia that Crist is gay will never go away.

A number of observers are openly wonrg if the gay mor will sk Crist’s chanc of holdg Mel Martez’s Senate seat for the GOP.

The theory, advanced mostly on the left-of-center, is that gay-hatg right-wgers will try to brg Crist turns out, though, that Florida’s Republin primary voters are more terted another “is he or isn’t he?

IS GOVERNOR CHARLIE CRIST GAY? SHOULD WE CARE?

A leaked Florida vtigative report that has been makg s way through state polil circl over the past few days alleg that former Florida Governor Charlie Crist had at least two homosexual affairs, paid the men he was volved wh to leave the state, and stggled wh a ser drkg problem while office — one particular episo supposedly volved Crist dnkenly rampagg around a golf rt. Man’s rightfully disdaful rponse was that (a) the revelatns, even if te, are merely “flammatory statements signed to embarrass” and not sufficient to impeach the former ernor’s ttimony, and that (b) if Crist were fact gay then “he would have to be a sick son of a bch to try to kiss Porky the Pig. Charlie Crist Rponds to Gay, Dnk Rumors.

LOADINGERROR LOADINGFormer Florida Governor, Charlie Crist, is acced of havg two gay affairs, payg brib and gog dnken rampag while HuffPost Vio. Charlie Crist, currently a Democratic ndidate for ernor, has apologized for his prr stance agast gay marriage when he was Florida’s Republin ernor.

CHARLIE CRIST’S WHOPPG ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ MISSTEP

In fact, Crist has tried to portray his evolutn as beg le wh that of Print Barack Obama, who me out favor of gay marriage 2012 after favorg civil unns.

Charlie Crist’s flip flop on gay marriage.

In May 2013, Crist me out support of gay marriage on Facebook.

FORMER GOV. CHARLIE CRIST: GAY MARRIAGE STANCE WAS POLIL

That was a reversal om 2008 when he voted for a state nstutnal ban on gay marriage.

Gay marriage advot view both civil unns and domtic partnerships as ferr to marriage.

The nstutnal amendment the works 2005 banned gay marriage but also clud a phrase terpreted by some gay rights advot and lawyers to ban civil unns, too -- that "no other legal unn that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or regnized. Watermark, a Central Florida gay and lbian publitn, endorsed Crist the homtretch of the Republin primary cg his support for civil unns.

CHARLIE CRIST GAY RUMORS FURTHERED BY ALLEGATN HE APPOTED GEE LEMIX SENATOR TO SILENCE HIM

What they generally said was would pend on how closely such a civil unns law rembled marriage (though advot of gay rights told they qutned the pot of draftg a civil unns law that would be so weak as to pass that tt). Crist told CNN that he had supported a ban on gay marriage but add (once aga) that he's a "live-and-let-live kd of guy.

"It simply isn’t fair to say that someone who vot on a nstutnal amendment that has both provisns that he supported (prohibn on gay marriage) and provisns that he opposed (prohibns on civil unns) necsarily is support of both or agast both, " Geller rpond. When asked about his changg stance on gay marriage, Crist said, "I always supported civil unns. In fact a gay publitn endorsed him the Republin primary 2006 bee of his stance on civil unns.

But Crist sacrified his support for civil unns by votg for an anti-gay-marriage amendment that uld have also banned civil unns.