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    Puerto Rico senator resigns in photo controversy

    AP – Mon, Aug 29, 2011

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A Puerto Rico lawmaker has resigned following reports that explicit photos of him surfaced on an iPhone application for gays and bisexuals, the head of the U.S. territory's Senate announced Sunday.

    Sen. Roberto Arango, a Republican who represents the capital of San Juan for the island's governing party, presented his letter of resignation after a weekend meeting, Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz said.

    Schatz did not release the lawmaker's letter, but said the circumstances that led to the resignation "are very lamentable."

    Local news media published photos from the application showing a man's nude upper body with a cell phone obscuring his face. Another photo showed a rear view of a nude man on his hands and knees. Another showed a fuzzy image of a face that seemed to match Arango's.

    Arango has neither confirmed nor denied suggestions by local media that the photos might be of him and apparently was not asked if he had posted them. During a recent interview with WAPA TV in Puerto Rico, the senator said he has taken pictures of himself with a cell phone to document his recent weight loss.

    "I really don't remember having taken those pictures of myself, but it doesn't mean I didn't take them," he told the station. "I really don't remember."

    Arango did not return calls Sunday.

    A graduate of Louisiana State University and a food importer before turning to politics, he was chairman of a business council for the national Republican Party and municipal director of the Republican Party in Puerto Rico, according to his Web page for Puerto Rico's Senate.

    Pedro Julio Serrano, founder of the gay rights group Puerto Rico for Everyone, said Arango voted in favor of Resolution 99, a proposal that would block any attempt to permit same-sex marriages in the U.S. territory. He also helped block a measure to ban sexual discrimination in the workplace and opposed adoption rights for gays.

    "This isn't a moment to kick someone when he's down, but I have to denounce Sen. Roberto Arango's complicity with a fundamentalist agenda that promotes the exclusion and marginalization of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people," Serrano said Sunday.

    Local news media said that the pictures first appeared on an iPhone application for gays and bisexuals and that they themselves later received copies from unidentified sources.

    In recent days, Puerto Rican Gov. Luis Fortuno had said that if the man was indeed a legislator, he should resign. That echoed the sentiments of other lawmakers, including local House Speaker Jenniffer Gonzalez.

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    887 comments

    • A Yahoo! User  •  9 mths ago
      Sen. Roberto Arango = self-loathing hypocrite (professes one thing but does something entirely different). These type of ppl are very dangerous and insidious.
    • Kim
      Kim  •  8 mths ago
      Watch it, Clinton goes both ways!!!
    • Ivan
      Ivan  •  8 mths ago
      Maybe he can be Chaz Bono's partner on DWTS....just saying.
    • Jack
      Jack  •  8 mths ago
      lol...sodomite....when will God end this joke of a civilization...this joke of a species.
    • VoiceReason
      VoiceReason  •  8 mths ago
      good looking puerto rican dude...i would do him
    • Mack
      Mack  •  8 mths ago
      Be you straight or gay I think we all must agree that there is something about every types of people's lifestyle we find disgusting. Yet the most important thing is every American should be afforded their Civil Rights, never can we let just one American Citizen go with out them as it will show our enemies that we no longer value the core principles that made this country great.
    • Raymond
      Raymond  •  9 mths ago
      Gay Republican? Oxymoron....
      • Eyes rolling yet again
        Eyes rolling yet again 9 mths ago
        not really from past news
      • Eyes rolling yet again
        Eyes rolling yet again 9 mths ago
        His excuses sound just like our republicans
      • Capt. Cat
        Capt. Cat 9 mths ago
        abelincoln in bed together witt dem jyess jyou don't make the cry republicanslogcabinsmenstogetherabebabe jyess perryboehnercasinosronrandpaul do jyess watch oxygen cable network and are jyess morons and jyess definitely whitemxGirl hatin beatin jyess gays ripoffcasinosrepublicansvermens
    • Kelly
      Kelly  •  8 mths ago
      A couple of years ago, Bill Maher revealed that it's a well-known secret that half the big wigs in the Republican party are closet homosexuals. We really shouldn't be surprised. What is surprising is how anti-gay they pretend to be. It's kinda like that one white segrationist who had a black mistress and child. Hypocrites suck (in this case literally).
      • Ralph
        Ralph 8 mths ago
        Their anti-gay stance is not that surprising. Even some gays who are out now acknowledge that they tried to hide their homosexuality by joining in harassing gays when they were younger. This is just like with Roy Cohn, Joe McCarthy's aid, who gave anti-gay speeches until he died of AIDS.
    • Mack
      Mack  •  8 mths ago
      I'm beginning to think Republicans just want to stop all gay rights to keep themselves in check. They are ashamed of being gay. I have to agree with a few of the post that the harder a Republican fights against gay rights, the higher the probability they are a closeted homosexual.
      • Ralph
        Ralph 8 mths ago
        Their thought is "Why would anybody think I am gay if I attack other gays?" It is all just camouflage. The ones who are the loudest are the most insecure.
    • Hey
      Hey  •  8 mths ago
      I think it is now a requirement that all our elected officials need to have at least one uncovered sex scandal to be eligible for office.
    • Rockchick1979
      Rockchick1979  •  8 mths ago
      He had some mighty strong Puerto Rican Rum in one hand while the camera was in the other. Wew, better stick with beer when he's flipping burgers now.
    • nobody
      nobody  •  8 mths ago
      this is getting old.
    • Joe
      Joe  •  8 mths ago
      hahahaha GOP- Gay Old Perverts
    • Willie
      Willie  •  8 mths ago
      All these anti-gay repugblikans need to come out of the closet. At least he resigned. Now we have to vote out all the others that are still in office (republikans and democrats).

      Vote out all incumbents!
    • ManInTheStreet
      ManInTheStreet  •  8 mths ago
      "I really don't remember having taken those pictures of myself, but it doesn't mean I didn't take them," he told the station. "I really don't remember." -- yeah, right.
    • Burn your credit card
      Burn your credit card  •  8 mths ago
      Man these Republican pink pickle puffers are funnier than anything that's been on TV lately. It's too bad they're obsessed with homosexuality- maybe if they just came out of the closet, they could do what they said they were going to do and pass a good fair jobs bill instead of worrying about gays (again), abortion (again), and tax cuts (again). Doesn't matter what the problem is, those are their solutions. I'd rather buy a speed bump than a Republican, at least you don't have to pay a speed bump a salary.
    • Ace01
      Ace01  •  8 mths ago
      Another gay Republican in the closet. One more entry to a long list. Being hipocritical is much worse than being gay. That they are both make them qualify for preachers more than politicians. As crooked as politicians can get to be you need a few notches up the ladder of corruption to become a preacher and those have more pedophiles and gays in the closet than any profession I can think of. Whatever their faith or denomination.
    • Luke
      Luke  •  8 mths ago
      Has anyone introduced him to Larry Craig?
    • Chris
      Chris  •  8 mths ago
      Who cares if he's gay. LOL @ him saying he didn't remember..
    • marshall g
      marshall g  •  8 mths ago
      Hold up you mean to tell me that puerto- rico has a senator in the us congress but DC does not even have one what a joke and we pay fed taxes
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