Aaron Schock, former GOP ngrsman, out as gay years after votg agast LGBT protectns - CBS News

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Former Illois reprentative Aaron Schock, whose "Downton Abbey" office sparked mors about his sexualy, me out as gay.

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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.

FORMER GOP NGRSMAN WHO VOTED AGAST LGBT PROTECTNS OUT AS GAY

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

AARON SCHOCK, FORMER ILLOIS CONGRSMAN, COM OUT AS GAY

“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. Former Republin Reprentative Aaron Schock, who had voted agast LGBT protectns while Congrs, me out as gay Thursday a post on his webse.

"I am gay, " Schock, 38, wrote the lengthy post.

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