Word: scandalous
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...most exciting event since the expedition of Lewis and Clark recently hit the state of Oregon. Sam Adams—the openly gay mayor of Portland who had been hailed as America’s “great gay hope”—was embroiled in scandal last month when he confessed to lying about an affair he’d had with an 18-year-old political intern named Beau Breedlove. Despite the fact that Adams denied the affair throughout the course of his mayoral campaign, Breedlove insists that he welcomed Adam’s advances...
...sexuality. Yet critics insist that their disgust at Adams’s behavior comes about not as a result of the nature of his sexual preferences, but because of his choice to lie about his behavior. This claim is preposterous. To assert that the Sam Adams scandal exists independently of his homosexuality is either patently duplicitous or laughably na?...
...many ways, the Adams affair is a double disloyalty. Hidden behind the fervent insistence that the scandal isn’t about “gay predators or gay anything” (as Timothy Egan insisted in his blog for the New York Times) is the implicit acknowledgement that Adams’s “betrayal” was not just of his constituents’ trust, but also of the gay community at large. When Adams denied the relationship during his campaign, he smeared his accuser, insisting that the charges were indicative of the worst kind of homophobia...
...Does it haunt me? Yes, it does. And I'm not afraid to admit that." - On his handling of the sex-abuse scandal, calling the issue the most challenging of his tenure in Milwaukee Milwaukee Journal Sentinel...
...Herculean fundraiser, helped his archdiocese avoid bankruptcy amid the lawsuits that followed the priest sexual-abuse scandal. He effectively closed a $3 million budget deficit in 2008 and also started a fundraising campaign that he claims has raised $57.5 million in pledges, more than halfway to its goal...