Christian Conservative Group Demands Vitters Resignation Says GOP Committing Outright Hypocrisy By Letting Him Stay

[romantico]

Posted: 6/20/11 at 7:41pm

I can already hear Goth and Roxy defending Vitter while at the same time bitching about Weiner. I wonder if the 'mainstream liberal media' will utter one word of this.

The president of the Christian conservative Family Policy Network a group best known for confronting attendees at gay pride events about Jesus' power to cure homosexuality sent a letter to Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) today calling on him to follow the lead of Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) and resign. Vitter admitted to frequenting prostitutes in 2007, but did not step down and, unlike Weiner, never faced much pressure from his own party to do so. Family Policy Network President Joe Glover added in his letter that Republicans 'are committing outright hypocrisy' as long Vitter remains in office, the New Orleans Times Picayune reports:

'There are a lot of people that I think are committing outright hypocrisy and are forced to do so as long as he (Vitter) remains in office,' said Joe Glover, the president of the Family Policy Network, based in Forest, Va. 'I don't think the senator should put those folks in the untenable position of having to pragmatically defend his presence in the Senate.'

Glover noted,for example, that House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, had called on Weiner to resign, but had also contributed to Vitter's 2010 re-election campaign.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/06/20/249110/family-policy-network-david-vitter/