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GOP Congrsman Rponds To Gay Rumors

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DISGRACED EX-REP. AARON SCHOCK OUT AS GAY

Aaron Schock has e out as gay — admtg has left him disowned by his eply relig fay who want him to go through nversn therapy. “I am gay, ” wrote the 38-year-old ex-Illois pol who rigned om Congrs five years ago amid claims he mised ernment and mpaign funds, wh feral charg only dropped last year.

“I unrstood that the teachgs of my upbrgg were pretty clear on the matter, ” he said of beg gay, sayg he avoid thkg about . Once office, he says, he “assumed that revealg myself as their gay ngrsman would not go over well. When he was fally ready to nfi his fay last Easter, photographs that emerged of him shirtls wh other men at the Coachella ftival “ma clear” that he was gay, he wrote.

AARON SCHOCK, REPUBLIN CONGRSMAN, RPONDS TO GAY RUMORS, ANTI-GAY VOTG RERD

While fendg himself agast all the charg ma agast him, Schock admted to one clear regret — beg agast gay marriage while office.

“I n live openly now as a gay man bee of the extraordary, brave people who had the urage to fight for our rights when I did not, ” he wrote. GOP Congrsman Aaron Schock of Illois, the subject of persistent gay mors sce he took office 2009, said on Thursday that qutns about his sexual orientatn and how might relate to his antigay votg rerd and posns are “appropriate and ridiculo” and not “worthy of further rponse. ” He also stated, “I’ve said that before, ” when asked if he is nfirmg that he is not gay, and add, “You n look up.

”Schock had fact stated to Details magaze 2009 that he is not gay, a lengthy piece which noted that he is unmarried and had been the subject of mors as far back as 2004, when he was asked the qutn by a Chigo newspaper. And didn’t help quell the mors when, last week Tampa, Fla., while he was attendg the Republin Natnal Conventn, TMZ scend upon Schock as he was walkg through the gay neighborhood of the cy, plete wh rabow flags the background as well as stor sellg skimpy men’s unrwear and what some have said is a lol gay bathhoe. ”Asked on the floor of the RNC an terview for my SiriXM OutQ rad program to rpond to those who’ve believed that Schock is gay and also view his vote agast “don’t ask, don’t tell” repeal as a vote agast members of his own group, Schock rpond, “Those qutns are pletely ridiculo and appropriate.

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