The Continuing Saga of the Sanctimonious Senator from Tennessee
Republican Sen. Jeff Miller (Cleveland) - famed homophobic leader of the sanctity-of-marriage movement - was recently accused of adultery by his wife of fifteen years and now faces similar charges from his hometown newspaper.
According to a column in the Bradley News Weekly, the Republican has long had a “seedy reputation” for “infidelity.”
Regarding Miller’s initial claim of innocence to his wife’s charge of infidelity, columnist Matthew Melton charges:
“[I]f the reports we in the media have been hearing for the past four years have any credibility at all, Mr. Miller is going to be eating some seriously large crow. You read me correctly. The local and Nashville media have heard repeated claims about Sen. Miller’s alleged infidelity for years.
I guess I wonder why we don’t get fed up by people in the Bible Belt who campaign by thumping their Bibles, distributing photos of themselves with their loving families, showing up at church, posing with their arms around local school principals and making loud speeches about God and country and holy matrimony; and then they vanish into the land of the legislature to live like the devil.
If Jeff Miller wanted to live the single life, going to bars and hanging with the babes, then he certainly had every right to do so. And if he wanted to keep all that private, then he certainly had a limited right to try. But on the chance that he thinks he has the right to practice that life on one side and champion the God-Bless-America family values on the other, he’s wrong. It doesn’t work that way. I hope the electorate knows that. "
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Sen. Miller’s “seedy reputation” has spread pretty far of late. The Tennessee Republican recently received a coveted spot in DU’s Top Ten Conservative Idiots (No. 194). Thus, Sen. Jeff Miller is now featured alongside of other conservative hypocrites such as Tom Delay and Newt Gingrich. Even the Canadians have taken note of the Senator’s growing reputation. And, of course, the venerable Jesus General picked up on a couple of Tennessee Guerilla Women stories about Sen. Miller, including the one pointing out Miller’s valiant effort to cloak himself in manliness after it became widely known that the homophobe has a gay brother.
Thanks to Sen. Miller's decade long fight to ban all things gay, the gay marriage ban will likely appear on the ballot in 2006 (unless the ACLU stops it). With all the fame that Sen. Miller has accrued, it will be forever difficult to debate the merits of protecting marriage from gays without first recalling the hypocrisy of the sanctimonious senator from Tennessee.
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Related Stories: Sanctimonious Anti-gay Senator Caught With Pants Down & More on Anti-gay Sen. Jeff Miller . . .
