Sen. Roberto Arango, an anti gay Republican Resigns after posting Nude photos of himself

Sen. Roberto Arango, a Republican who represents the capital of San Juan, presented his letter of resignation after a weekend meeting, Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz said.

Schatz did not release the lawmaker's letter, but said the circumstances that led to the resignation "are very lamentable."

Local news media published photos from the application showing a man's nude upper body with a cellphone obscuring his face. Another photo showed a rear view of a nude man on his hands and knees. Another showed a fuzzy image of a face that seemed to match Arango's.

Arango has neither confirmed nor denied suggestions by local media that the photos might be of him and apparently was not asked if he had posted them. During a recent interview with WAPA TV in Puerto Rico, the senator said he has taken pictures of himself with a cellphone to document his recent weight loss.

This so called Senator that helped the Bush campaign in P.R. At One point showing a rubber duck(as posted in adamfoxie*)  and making it quack. In Puerto Rico, a duck is the equivalent of the F* word. Again the strongest Homophobes are gays in the closet. A shame of themselves they tried to bring shame to people like them. We have plenty of information now a days to dsicredit all the crazy stuff that is said about 'gays'. The only reason that will make somebody publicly make up stories about 'gays' and deny 'gays' civil and human rights is because they are homosexuals. 

A graduate of Louisiana State University and a food importer before turning to politics, he was chairman of a business council for the national Republican Party and municipal director of the Republican Party in Puerto Rico, according to his Web page for Puerto Rico's Senate.

Pedro Julio Serrano, founder of the gay rights group Puerto Rico for Everyone, said Arango voted in favor of Resolution 99, a proposal that would block any attempt to permit same-sex marriages in the U.S. territory. He also helped block a measure to ban sexual discrimination in the workplace and opposed adoption rights for gays.

"This isn't a moment to kick someone when he's down, but I have to denounce Sen. Roberto Arango's complicity with a fundamentalist agenda that promotes the exclusion and marginalization of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people," Serrano said Sunday.

Local news media said that the pictures first appeared on an iPhone application for gays and bisexuals and that they themselves later received copies from unidentified sources.

In recent days, Puerto Rican Gov. Luis Fortuno had said that if the man was indeed a legislator, he should resign. That echoed the sentiments of other lawmakers, including local House Speaker Jenniffer Gonzalez.

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A tip given to blogger Joe.My.God. adds that, “In 2009 he [Arango] voted in favor of Resolution 99 which would have amended Puerto Rico’s constitution to ban the recognition of same-​sex marriages (it didn’t pass). He has been opposed to civil union bills and in 2004 he used a rubber duck and made it quack to make fun of an opponent (in Puerto Rico, the word for duck, “pato”, means faggot.)”

Grindr is a very popular geosocial networking application primarily used by gay men to identify and communicate with other gay men nearby, often to arrange dates, hookups, or other often sexual encounters. Grindr boasts it has “has 45,000 users per second and it is now the globes largest gay social network and has people registered throughout 92 countries,” according to Bentmagazine.

Last year, sent the following letter to the U.S. Congress, and was subsequently excoriated and ridiculed for his poor grammar, English, and overall lack of understanding of the very basic issues surrounding statehood for Puerto Rico.
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