"Not Gay" Louisiana Republican Admits to Sexting, Kissing Teen Boy

Republican Mike Yenni admits to an illicit relationship with an underage boy

Republicans and their puppet masters at Christian "family values" hate groups continue to hyperventilate about the dangers of transgender individuals using restrooms that conform to their gender identity, but out of Louisiana we are seeing another example of the real danger to children and youths is Republican elected officials (conservative "Christian" pastors and Catholic priests, of course, lead the way in child molestation).  In this instance, the GOP elected official sent a 17-year-old boy sexually charged text messages and gave him a “graduation present” pair of racy designer underwear, but claims that nothing else happened and that he's "not gay."  Yeah, and I'm Queen Victoria too!  A piece in The Raw Story looks at this matter which sadly is so common among Republicans that it is almost becoming non-newsworthy since such situations - and arrest made during solicitations for sex in restrooms - seem to happen weekly, if not more frequently.  Here are article highlights:

A Louisiana parish president admits that he sent a then-17-year-old boy sexually charged text messages and gave him a “graduation present” pair of racy designer underwear, but insists that he was only “playing along” with the teen and that no sexual contact took place.

The New Orleans Advocate reported Friday that Republican Mike Yenni characterized his relationship with the underage student at his alma mater Jesuit High School as a “lapse in judgment” and said that calls for his resignation are politically motivated.
 “I can’t explain why I did it,” the married, 40-year-old Yenni told New Orleans’ Fox 8 News. He maintained that many of the details revealed in a 2015 blog post by the boy about the affair were false and that he never had sexual contact with the teen beyond kissing, nor was he grooming the boy for a sexual relationship.
 Fox 8’s Lee Zurik asked Yenni what his intent was in exchanging erotic texts with a teen.

“I can’t…I really can’t answer it,” said Yenni. “I mean, it was just…it was a stupid action. It was a stupid action to even get into this form of text messaging. It was something…something that I can’t explain why I did it.”

Yenni met the boy at a Jesuit High School function. They began to exchange sexually charged messages. Yenni visited the boy at his job at a local mall and presented him with a pair of underwear. They kissed, but Yenni insists that was their only contact, which was not illegal because the age of consent for boys in Louisiana is 17.

A year after the liaison, the boy published an account of the affair, which was picked up by what Yenni calls a “tabloid.” He declined to address the accusations against him line by line . . .

“I’m not gay,” Yenni replied.

Christian Radio Host Left a Trail of Molested Children

The professional Christian crowd likes to depict gays as promiscuous, sleeping with an improbable number of different men, and always looking for an opportunity to molest children.  Perhaps they are engaging in classic transference of the deeds of one of their own to the gay community if one looks at the case of case of Christian radio host John Balyo who when not pretending to be a man of god was engaging in serial child molestation.  Fox News looks at Balyo's trail of victims.  Here are excerpts:

Federal prosecutors referred to former Christian radio host John Balyo as “a wolf in sheep’s clothing” who was “living a double life” in court documents obtained Friday by FOX 17 NEWS.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Tessa Hessmiller filed the Sentencing & Restitution Memorandum in advance of Balyo’s Dec. 11 sentencing in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids.

Balyo, 35, of Caledonia pleaded guilty in Calhoun County Circuit Court to first-degree criminal-sexual conduct. He also pleaded guilty to federal charges in the sexual assaults of the child at a Kalamazoo hotel.

Balyo is serving a sentence of 25 to 50 years in prison for molesting a boy in May in a hotel in Battle Creek.

The documents contain two pictures of the bondage kit that prosecutors say Balyo assembled and which was later confiscated.

They say Balyo had a storage unit where he kept not only the bondage kit but also  a collection of newspaper articles on children and serial killers; notebooks containing numerous boys’ names and notations about them; photographs of nude children; DVDs; and recording and computer equipment, among other items.

The documents say Balyo possessed a life-sized anatomically correct mannequin of a boy, wearing a blond wig, that he kept tied up inside a dog crate. Homeland Security agents found photographs of Balyo pointing a handgun at the mannequin, which was tied up to a post.

The documents also contain details of Balyo and Ronald Moser assaulting young victims at a Kalamazoo hotel on April 19 and May 9 as well as at a Battle Creek hotel on May 17.

The documents say that “Balyo operated under the table, living a double life. On the outside, he was a law abiding, charitable, upstanding citizen… But underneath the surface, he was feeding  a morbid and sadistic fascination with children, creating and accumulating pedophilic materials, rehearsing a sexual kidnapping fantasy with a gun and a child-sized mannequin, and meeting clandestinely in hotel rooms with young boys in bondage.”

I hate to say it, but Balyo may have been living the secret fantasies of many of the loudest homophobes of the professional Christian crowd.  One is not so hysterical about gays unless something is going on in terms of one's own sexuality.