Phil Hinkle, that Indiana Republican State Rep. who paid $80 for a Craigslist hookup with a young guy, isn't gay, he wants us to know. How very Larry Craig of him:
But why, so many have asked, did he even make the email arrangement in the first place, using the email address -- phinkle46@comcast.net -- he had listed on his legislative website, no less?And, like Larry Craig, Hinkle isn't quitting.
"I don't know," Hinkle said. "I'm telling you, I don't know."
Usually he's in control of his actions, he said, but something changed.
"I was on the road to self-destruction," he said, "and I don't know why."
Hinkle said he's not excusing his actions, which he called "stupid, but not illegal." Both Hinkle and Kameryn Gibson say that money exchanged hands but that neither engaged in a sex act.
Hinkle also said Tuesday he's not a homosexual.
"I say that emphatically," he said. "I'm not gay."
Hinkle needs to do a video like this to really convince us:
