Anti-gay Labour MSP caught with legs in the air

The gay sex scandal engulfing the Scottish Labour Party right now has all the usual spicy and sad ingredients: hypocrisy, countless lies and a private life lived very much at odds with a public persona.
David Whitton voted against adoption rights for same-sex couples again and again while having an affair with his male secretary.

Labour have not changed. They cannot change. Sex to a Labour MSP is all about sin, guilt, secret desires and repressed sexualities. ‘Do what you will so long as you don’t publicise it and don’t get found out’ has long been the rule of the red-rinse Dundee and Govan brigades. I can’t believe I toyed with voting for them back in August. Scratch the surface, you’ve got the same sad people running the show. But I have to wonder, when it comes to the male secertery who the MSP has been shagging, how much self-respect does he have if he’s willing to sleep with a man who’s voted against gay rights time and again? Not much would be my guess.

Whitton is trying to cover his ass – literally now the world knows what he likes to do with it – by saying he voted for civil partnerships. That much is true, but the MSP has an anti-gay rating of 60.1 per cent. In 2002, he opposed four readings of the Adoption and Children Bill, designed to allow unmarried couples, both straight and gay, to become adoptive parents. He also backed an amendment tabled by right-winger Iain Grey which would have passed every measure in the bill – apart from a move to scrap the infamous Section 28. In 2003, Whitton abstained on a proposal to get rid of Section 28.

Stewart Who (gay.com) writes that Whittons’s calls for privacy are likely to amuse the opposition and irritate voters. Few will have issues with his lifestyle or sexual orientation; it’s the deception of his wife, children and constituents that looks particularly ugly. If a person can deceive their loved ones, why would they worry about telling the truth to the public?

I wonder if men like Whitton– or Foley in the US – would like gay sex to be illegal because it excites them to do what they do in secret? For some men, does indulging in homosexual behaviour only thrill them because they hear a voice at the back of their heads telling them they’re wicked and deserve to be punished?

Labour spokesman Frank McAveety said: ' Its an external matter for David ' .