Ex-Rep. Aaron Schock out as gay, disowned by fay

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• DISGRACED EX-REP. AARON SCHOCK OUT AS GAY
• FORMER GOP NGRSMAN WHO VOTED AGAST LGBT PROTECTNS OUT AS GAY
• AARON SCHOCK, FORMER ILLOIS CONGRSMAN, COM OUT AS GAY

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. “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.

AARON SCHOCK, FORMER ILLOIS CONGRSMAN, COM OUT AS GAY

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

"The fact that I am gay is jt one of those thgs my life need of explic affirmatn, to remove any doubt and to fally validate who I am as a person. Durg his tenure, Schock voted agast several LGBT protectns, cludg the legalizatn of gay marriage, the repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" ary policy and an amendment to feral hate crime laws verg sexual orientatn and genr inty.

" There were mors at the time that Schock was gay, which he nied, sayg the speculatn was not "worthy of further rponse.