Ever Meet A Republican Anti-Gay Fanatic Who WASN'T A Closet Case?

Phillip Hinkle (R-IN), count down to resignation has begun

The message "I Need A Sugga Daddy" always drives rightists into a feeding frenzy-- especially when they're homophobes and it comes from a young boy. Is it such a powerful sexual turn-on to conservatives because it's a power trip? I suspect it isn't bringing out a nurturing side of them. But we'll just have to ask notorious anti-gay fanatic Phillip Hinkle (R-IN), a 64 year old married man from Indianapolis, first elected to the Indiana House in 2000. Indianapolis' conservative Gannett newspaper, The Star reported today that Hinkle solicited sex from an 18 year old boy via the m4m "casual encounters" section of Craig's List. Maybe these perverted old Republicans should stick to smoke signals; they'd get in less trouble and leave less evidence of their hypocrisy.

Hinkle (phinkle46 @comcast.net) picked a hotel owned by a far right conglomerate, the Mormon Marriott to bring the 18 year old for a night. He offered him $80 plus another $50 or $60 "for a really good time." So not just a hypocrite but a cheapskate to boot!

The email exchange is in response to the Craigslist posting in which the young man -- who lists his age as 20 in the ad but says he is 18 years old-- says, "I need a sugga daddy."

The young man told The Star that they met, but that he tried to leave after the man told him he was a state lawmaker. He said the lawmaker at first told him he could not leave, grabbed him in the rear, exposed himself to the young man and then later gave him an iPad, BlackBerry cellphone and $100 cash to keep quiet.

When contacted by The Star about the emails, Hinkle, a Republican who represents portions of Pike and Wayne townships, did not contest the emails but said, "I am aware of a shakedown taking place."

And Rep. Hinkle, who admits he sent the kid the e-mails and that he loves "getting and staying naked," wants everybody to "respect the privacy of the family at this time." Rep Hinkle wanted the young man to spend the night with him but his offer wasn't all that enticing-- "No extra cash just free breakfast and maybe late night snack."

Brad Banks, supervisor of the D Felony Division at the Marion County prosecutor's office, explained-- without being provided details of the emails-- that prostitution in the state of Indiana is defined as an agreement between two parties to have sex in exchange for money and that the agreement must be about both sex and money.

But when the frightened kid tried to back out and go home, Rep. Hinkle, who had bragged about being a legislator and showed the kid his ID said, "You need to do this, because I came and got you, and I'm not taking you back until we do what we need to do." Hinkle got his wife-- and then she got their daughter and son-in-law-- involved after the boy was rescued by his sister. Hinkle's wife offered the sister a $10,000 bribe to shut up about the whole incident. Hinkle claims the boy and his sister ruined him. "You just ruined me," he said. That's how the right-wing mind works. And that's the kind of mind that would accuse Bert and Ernie and SpongeBob SquarePants of being gay.




UPDATE: Hinkle Solicited An African American Teenager For Sex

Yeah, turns out the 18 year whose ass Hinkle was grabbing was a Black kid. Hinkle is getting a lot of pressure to resign... primarily from his fellow Republicans.

"I strongly recommend that Representative Hinkle resign his position," said Marion County Republican Chairman Kyle Walker, "so that he can focus on his family and not have this situation detract from that or the work that needs to continue in his legislative district... And Indiana Republican Party Chairman Eric Holcomb said Hinkle needs to "do the right thing."

Asked if that meant the six-term lawmaker should resign, Holcomb said he "would word it differently."

A political scientist at Purdue adds that "Obviously, Hinkle's career is ostensibly done. He will either resign-- which I think is the most likely thing-- or be replaced anyways." No one thinks Mike Pence is going to want him on the ticket next year.