Via SLOG, for your consideration…Rod Jetton, Missouri House Speaker (former):

Jetton explains why Lipke was removed

Wednesday, February 7, 2007
By Rod Jetton

There has been much discussion concerning my decision to replace state Rep. Scott Lipke of Jackson as a committee chair. Legislative leaders in our region have urged me to explain my actions and clarify the situation.

The problem centers on Jessica’s Law that we passed last year. As chairman of the Committee on Crime Prevention and Public Safety, Lipke sponsored and handled this bill as it moved through the legislature.

Jessica’s Law was a great bill, which we needed to pass to protect our children from sexual predators. Regrettably, Lipke chose to use the bill to delete 14 words from our laws in order to repeal the gay sex ban in Missouri.

Thanks to that deletion, it is now legal to engage in deviate sexual intercourse with someone of the same sex here in Missouri. This law had been on our books for decades.

Well…yes…except the U.S. Supreme Court nullified all the state sodomy laws, so it’s not enforceable.   But Jetton holds out hope for a brighter tomorrow…

After being confronted about his actions, Lipke told us it was "no big deal" because the Missouri law was unconstitutional. Unfortunately, it is a big deal, because now it is easier for gay couples to adopt children in our state.

Several members told Lipke how upset they were that he didn’t tell them about the gay sex ban and let them make up their own mind about repealing it.

Judges come and go, and Supreme Court decisions change back and forth. Who knows? These new judges may reverse that decision.

Yes…clearly Lipke had to go because now Missouri legislators would have to go to all the trouble to make it legal again to throw same sex couples into jail if the supreme court decides to let them start doing it again.  And besides…this is also an issue of profound Moral importance…

I’m disappointed nobody caught those 14 words. But I think I know why. We all trusted Lipke and Jessica’s Law was a good law we needed to pass. We all wanted to vote for a good bill that would protect our children. In our rush to make a positive difference, we didn’t look over the 46-page bill close enough because we trusted Lipke.

That’s why I had to make a change in the committee chairmanship. The members of our Republican caucus have lost their faith in Lipke. They expect me to appoint chairmen who will keep them informed of controversial details that could cause problems.

I have fought attempts by liberals to repeal the gay sex ban for years, and I am now embarrassed to say that I unknowingly voted for the very thing I have been fighting against.

Lipke was removed as chair because his fellow legislators no longer trusted him…

After all…we just wanted to do something good for the children.  And then we had to vote to treat the gay once decently too once they grew up and only liberals want to do crap like that and I’ve been fighting against gay loving liberals for years.  I am married with three children and attend Methodist church regularly.  I am a man of high moral values…

Except when I’m not…

Former Missouri House Speaker (R) Beats Up, Chokes Mistress During Sex

…former Missouri House Speaker Rod Jetton is facing assault charges for allegedly beating the shit out of his mistress while having sex. His ladyfriend had not uttered the “safe word,” probably because Jetton was beating her unconscious.

The Scott County court clerk confirms a felony complaint has been filed against former Missouri House Speaker Rod Jetton for an incident that allegedly took place Nov. 15 in Sikeston, Mo. […]

The complaint alleges Jetton “recklessly caused serious physical injury to ——- by hitting her on the head, and choking her resulting in unconsciousness and the loss of the function of part of her body.”

UPDATE, 3:50: The affidavit attached to the probably cause statement alleges Jetton went to the home of the victim Nov. 15, where he and the victim drank wine and watched a football game. The victim claims Jetton hit her on the face and choked her, leaving bruises that the police department photographed.

The affidavit claims the assault occurred during the night and into the morning of Nov. 16. It says Jetton and the victim agreed on a “safe word” “to use as a stop word during intercourse.”

The “safe word” is hard to utter when you’re being CHOKED TO DEATH.

Jetton and wife agreed earlier this year to a divorce settlement.  So I guess her safe word was "DIVORCE".  I have a hunch why…

Jetton in Probable Cause: "You Should’ve Said Green Balloons"

Jetton went to the woman’s residence in Sikeston, Mo. with two bottles of wine, according to the report.

"(The woman) said she did not see him pour the wine because she did not follow him into the kitchen, but he returned to the living room and handed her a glass of wine. (The woman) remembers watching a football game and said once she finished the glass of wine, she began ‘fading’ in and out and remembered losing consciousness several times during the evening," wrote Detective Bethany McDermott in her report.

McDermott reports that Jetton and the woman agreed on a safe word of "green balloons" to use as a stop word during intercourse.

"(The woman) recalls Jetton hitting her on the face very hard. She then remembers waking up, lying on the floor and Jetton was choking her. (The woman) said she did not know what happened with her memory because she had been drunk but had never had the blank spots in her memory," McDermott reported.

"(The woman) said Jetton stayed the night with her and when he woke up he gave her a kiss and said, ‘You should have said green balloons.’ Jetton left the woman’s residence and had not returned," McDermott added.

McDermott reported that a Sikeston police officer reported seeing bruises on the woman, including on the outside of both thighs and around her breast.

The police officer observed the bruises to the woman and took photographs for evidence on November 18th. 

Okay…all snarkiness aside…this is sick.  How completely twisted up inside do you have to be to want to beat up the sex you are attracted to?  How can you even think to take a fist to that which you desire?  Yes…yes…  I know that some folks are into S&M and B&D and all that.  But couples who do that sort of thing do it together and they’re both into it and they’re both getting off on it.  This wasn’t that.  It was an attack.  It was hate.  Hate toward the woman…maybe toward all women…and maybe even toward his own sexual desire for them.  The more he desired her, the more he hated her.

But among the culture warriors you see a lot of this sort of thing. The pathologies of hatred.  Hatred of sex.  Hatred of women.  Hatred of minorities…foreigners…any smaller, weaker, Other.  And fear.  Fear of loosing power.  And perhaps that is one reason why desire is the thing they hate most of all.  The object of your desire has power over you, and it frightens them to loose control…frightens and disgusts them how easily others are willing to share power, give and receive, take and be taken, in the dance of desire.  The author Mary Renault once said that politics like sex is a reflection of the person within.  If you are mean and selfish and cruel it will come out in your politics and it will come out in your sex life when what matters is you aren’t the sort of person who behaves like that.  Case in point: Jetton’s knuckle dragging prejudices against gay people are the least of his issues.