U.S. Senator Larry E. Craig, a firm gay marriage opponent, was arrested in June at an airport's men's bathroom and has pleaded guilty to misconduct, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
Craig, 62, has been fined more than 500 U.S. dollars and placed on unsupervised probation for a year, according to the report.
A 10-day jail sentence was suspended, according to a copy of a court document in the case. A second charge, interference with privacy, was dismissed.
According to a police report, a plainclothes police officer investigating complaints of sexual activity in the bathroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport arrested the senator on June 11 after what the officer described as sexual advances made by Craig from an adjoining stall.
In the wake of the homosexual scandal, Craig also severed ties with the Republican presidential campaign of Mitt Romney.
The Idaho Republican is a father of three and voted against gay rights. In 2006, he moved to endorse an amendment to the Constitution to define marriage in the United States as a union between one man and one woman.
Craig, whose seat is up for election next year, is the second Republican senator in recent weeks to find his personal behavior under scrutiny.
Senator David Vitter was implicated in a separate case when his phone number turned up in the records of an escort service that the authorities have described as a prostitution ring.
Source: Xinhua
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment