This
post marks the first time we've ever linked to Al Jazeera, at least
that I can recall. Not that we're afraid of what Sean Hannity and his
McCarthyite followers might say.
Rather,
the famed Arabic news service is rarely one to break major sex
scandals... until now. And we're glad we didn't miss this one like Fox
News already has, because it has three classic scandal plot points...
1) Fernando Lugo, the President of Paraguay, has admitted to fathering a child out of wedlock with Viviana Carrillo, who was not even his girlfriend at the time.
2) The boy is almost two, making the woman 24 and and Lugo 55 at the time of conception.
3) Lugo was technically still a Roman Catholic bishop at the time he knocked up
the young woman. He was staying with her at her godmother's house when
their sexual relationship began, culminating in the birth of the boy
almost a year before he won the Presidency. So, he didn't knock anybody
up while in office (that we know of), but don't forget that the Pope
had actually turned down his request be relieved of the vows of
celibacy-- even after the boy's birth. (Pope Benedict eventually gave
in.)
This all only came to light when the
woman was forced to file a paternity suit against the Paraguayan
President-- he thought he could pull a John Edwards up until the last
minute. More via Al Jazeera.
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