Family Valuez

Meet Tennessee state senator Paul Stanley:

He's a solid conservative Republican and married father of two, who according to his website is "a member of Christ United Methodist Church, where he serves as a Sunday school teacher and board member of their day school."

Stanley recently sponsored a bill designed to prevent gay couples from adopting children. And when a Planned Parenthood official recently sought his support for family planning services for Memphis teens, Stanley told her, according to the official, that he "didn't believe young people should have sex before marriage anyway, that his faith and church are important to him, and he wants to promote abstinence."

You already know where this is going, don't you?

In a sworn affidavit, a Tennessee state investigator has said that Stanley admitted to having a "sexual relationship" with a 22-year-old female intern working in his office, and to taking nude pictures of her in "provocative poses" in his apartment.

That's something I wouldn't care about at all, if only State Senator Stanley had the same generosity toward same-sex couples and women who want control over their own reproduction.

Maybe someday the GOP will learn that people's business is their own business.

That'd be cool.