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I have struggled with this story for days as there is not a whole hell of a lot that I can add. But like the pedophile priests (and I am using the term "pedophile" incorrectly, as the usual age range is 11-years or younger) and other "church" authorities I highlight, Bean needs to be added to that group. He is a man of "authority" mixed up in an alleged crime against a youth; to me that is just wrong. Gay or straight, it does not matter, abuse of "authority" does if that is what this case boils down to. But, as Bean himself has stated, "[m]y lawyers have insisted that the facts come out in the courtroom and not in the press,,,." So we will have to wait.

That being said, two very divergent viewpoints have emerged from this morass. The attached article itself is quite neutral considering the source. For a few days it was the only "source.

First up is Steve Deace,,,

By the Left’s own stated reasoning (brainwashing), they are now conducting a vicious, inhuman, and despicable war on underage boys.

Real estate tycoon Terrance Patrick Bean is an Obama fundraising bundler and the co-founder of the so-called Human Rights Campaign — one of the richest and most powerful pro-homosexual organizations in the country. And he was just indicted by an Oregon grand jury for a homosexual assault on an underage boy.

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Remember, the Left said that former Congressman Todd Akin’s gaffe about “legitimate rape” during the 2012 election (which Mr. Akin repeatedly apologized for) meant all conservatives were guilty of a “war on women.” Well, Democrat Sugar Daddy Bean could very well be guilty of “actual rape,” which means according to the Left’s own logic the Left is guilty of waging a war on underage boys.

Too bad Deace didn't do a bit more research. You see other Republicans have espoused the same view as Akin. A few examples ,,,

• 1980 this was said by James Leon Holmes, "concern for rape victims is a red herring because conceptions from rape occur with approximately the same frequency as snowfall in Miami." He was later nominated to a federal judgeship
• 1988 state Rep. Stephen Freind, "The odds that a woman who is raped will get pregnant are 'one in millions and millions and millions,,,.' The reason, Freind said, is that the traumatic experience of rape causes a woman to 'secrete a certain secretion' that tends to kill sperm."
• 1995 Henry Alridge stated, "the juices don't flow, the body functions don't work"
• 2012 Phil Gingrey in defense of Todd Akin, "But then he went on and said that in a situation of rape, of a legitimate rape, a woman’s body has a way of shutting down so the pregnancy would not occur. He’s partly right on that.”

Especially when you consider Bean isn’t a lone case-study here. Back in 2012, 68-year-old Larry Brinkin, one of the pioneers of homosexual political/judicial activism, was charged with alleged possession of child pornography, when California authorities traced back to his computer photos of sex acts involving children as young as toddlers being sodomized by adult men. Brinkin plead guilty to the charges earlier this year.

It’s a shame that monsters like Bean (allegedly) and Brinkin have to impugn the integrity of the movement they represent, but what’s fair is fair.

See, to the Left if elements of the Catholic Church heinously tolerated pedophiles, that means all the multi-millennia moral traditions of the church are now called into question. Never mind the fact the Catholic Church also gave us Mother Teresa. And if Ted Haggard turns out to be a flaming hypocrite, that means all evangelicals are as well. Never mind the fact evangelicals rank near the top nationally in charitable giving.

Please tell me he did not go there! Two cases versus thousands. He is comparing 2 cases -  one alleged - the other dealing with child porn (and I am not dismissing the seriousness Brinkin's crime) to the atrocities of the Catholic Church and Mother Teresa.

Mother Teresa has collected many, many millions (some say: billions) of Dollars in the name of India's paupers (and many, many more in the name of paupers in the other "gutters" of the world). Where did all this money go? It is surely not used to improve the lot of those, for whom it was meant. The nuns would hand out some bowls of soup to them and offer shelter and care to some of the sick and suffering. The richest order in the world is not very generous, as it wants to teach them the charm of poverty. "The suffering of the poor is something very beautiful and the world is being very much helped by the nobility of this example of misery and suffering," said Mother Teresa. Do we have to be grateful for this lecture of an eccentric billionaire?

Now from the other side penned by John Aravosis over at Americablog,,,

On first reading the news that top Democratic donor and gay civil rights advocate, Terry Bean, was arrested for allegedly having sex with an underage teen, something about the charges against Bean just didn’t add up.

As a result, I spent the weekend researching the story, and found a disturbing amount of troubling information about the other man at the center of this controversy, Bean’s now ex-boyfriend Kiah Loy Lawson (who also has been accused of having sex with the teen).

Lawson is so central to the charges against Bean, and his credibility is so tainted by a long record of violence and lawlessness, including a rather lengthy rap sheet, I’m all the more unsure what to believe at this point.

(I’m also surprised that much of the reporting on this story hasn’t mentioned any of Lawson’s disturbing past and present, which includes at least four different arrests for crimes as varied as possession of methamphetamine and a stolen vehicle, a probation violation, and two charges of tampering with evidence. Quite an accomplished list for someone only 25. But we’ll get to all that in a moment.)

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Earlier this year, things began to fall apart between Bean and Lawson. At one point, both men filed restraining orders against each other. (Lawson eventually withdrew his; Bean’s remains in effect.) Lawson claims that his problems with Bean began when he “discovered” that Bean had an alleged secret camera in his bedroom. Bean counters that the camera is part of a security system he installed after being the victim of a theft, that he used it for nothing illegal or improper, and that Lawson’s allegations are part of a larger extortion attempt that Lawson is at the center of.

I have to admit that when I first heard Bean’s “extortion” defense, I said “come on.” But after everything I found on Lawson this weekend, including four recent arrests and an alleged history of violence against former coworkers and boyfriends, I’m now less of a skeptic.

Before getting to the crux of Lawson’s criminal past, a word about why Kiah Loy Lawson matters.

After all, you might say, this story isn’t about Lawson, it’s about whether or not Terry Bean had relations with a 15-year-old. And that is certainly the most serious charge Bean is facing (one that he denies). But that allegation can’t be separated from the fact that Lawson is the one responsible for putting the police in touch with the teen; Lawson is the person responsible for Bean facing these charges.

And Lawson’s credibility is nonexistent.

It was Lawson, after all, who reportedly gave the police the teen’s phone number. (Oddly, Lawson’s mother now claims that her son never had contact with the teen; that in fact it was Bean who communicated with the kid. So how then did Lawson have the teen’s phone number; and why did he still have it, still keep it, one year after their encounter?)

One of the first questions I asked myself after reading Aravosis' piece - was he doing a bit of apologia? A question also raised in the comments. Two Points raised in response by Aravosis,

,,,it is the same thing when you read the post in question and find out that every other story out there has already convicted the guy.  Sometimes being fair is about correcting the record and presenting more of the story than that which is already out there.

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I don't find credible the testimony of meth addicts with long rap sheets who beat their spouses so hard that blood splatters on the wall.

A second question was raised by his use of reference to "long-term effects of meth, from DrugAbuse.gov:"

The thing with the President was last year. The meth arrests are this year. Look at the photos of Kiah that I posted. He was stunning last Xmas. Then progressive [sic] fell apart this year. It's possible Kiah wasn't nearly as into meth, and other problems, when Terry met him, and it's possible Kiah was but hid them well (he looked fine last year) and Terry had no idea until later. LIke [sic] you said, let's wait for more evidence, but it's just as likely Terry didn't know the guys entire past when he started dating.

I understand Aravosis' point, but I do not see what he sees in the pictures. The ravages of meth addiction are very obvious and based on the provided pictures it doesn't quite wash with me. It is still a very valid point and one that has to be taken into consideration especially in regards to Lawson's past.

A third point, and this was raised in the comments, the break-up of their relationship and the domestic violence issues.

Readers should be shocked that for a domestic violence attack that involved destruction of property and spattering the victim's blood on the walls, Lawson was convicted only of misdemeanor assault and did not serve any jail time. (scottrose)

Aravosis' response, "You know, it's funny, I keep finding myself having some lingering anti-gay bias in that I didn't even think of it in terms of "domestic violence" terms. Had a man beating his girlfriend so badly that there was blood on the wall, one would hope he'd be in jail a long time. Then again, he might not be."

To which "scottrose" responded with this interesting tid-bit, 

"On Feb. 15, Bean went to his Hayden Island condo and demanded that Lawson move out. The two men argued and police were called. An officer noticed a mark on Bean’s forehead, and Bean denied that Lawson caused it. But in a restraining-order petition he filed subsequently, Bean claimed Lawson had hit him."

In essence my original hesitancy to even post this story I believe was warranted, there is too much clutter going on. But where many in the comments seem to agree, Bean used very poor judgement in regards to his association with Lawson, which now taints his personal credibility,

Not the credibility of the LGBT movement, or the credibility of the HRC, or that of PRESIDENT Obama. As JoninMaryland points out on the Deace article comments,

When Todd Akin made his idiotic comments about "legitimate rape" the Left didn't claim that because of that one comment ALL conservatives were conducting a war on women. That's just factually untrue. The "war on women" concept is based on many things, ,,. It's based on so many factors, not simply Todd Akin's asinine comment. And no one with any sense claimed that ALL conservatives were guilty. The charge was always levied at the Republican Party as an entity. If you don't understand the difference between a charge levied at an entity and a charge that is meant to apply to every single individual, then you shouldn't even be in this business. Or really, functioning as an adult.

Did "the Left" claim that all Catholics are bad? That the entire Catholic church is corrupt? That's funny, because John Kerry is Catholic. So is Joe Biden. And thousands of other Democrats.

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