News
2007-08-10
Young GOP leader
accused in gay sex crime
On July 7, after
a six-month campaign, 33-year-old Glenn Murphy Jr. was
elected chairman of the venerable Young Republican National
On July 7, after
a six-month campaign, 33-year-old Glenn Murphy Jr. was
elected chairman of the venerable Young Republican National
Foundation.
Last week,
however, Murphy sent out a strange e-mail announcing his
resignation, explaining that a "life-altering" business deal
had arisen and, after praying with his family, he had
decided to pursue this new opportunity. For some
reason, Murphy could no longer represent a political
party due to a "gut-wrenching dilemma" that forced
him to step down from his new office.
In fact, as
bloggers soon made public, Murphy had been accused of what
is called in Indiana "criminal deviate conduct,"
a class B felony, after attempting to have sex with a
sleeping man July 29.
According to a
police report from Clark County, Ind., the man, his
sister, and Murphy had been drinking at a Young
Republican party the previous night. The revelers
wound up at the sister's home, where Murphy got into a
top bunk bed and the victim took the bottom bunk.
Sometime that
morning the victim awoke to find Murphy, in his words,
"holding my dick with one hand and sucking my dick with his
mouth," police records state. The man kicked Murphy off and
left the house.
Later that day,
Murphy called the man to explain that he had found
himself lying on the floor beside the man's bunk. The man,
Murphy said, had fondled Murphy's hair in his sleep,
so Murphy took this gesture as a green light for
further intimacy. Unconvinced by this alibi and unmoved
by Murphy's pleadings, the man filed a complaint.
This was
apparently not the first time Murphy had been unable to
control his attraction to unconscious men. Another
Clark County police report described an incident in
1998 in which Murphy crawled under the covers with a
sleeping acquaintance "and was committing the act of oral
sex when [the victim] awoke." The victim's girlfriend,
who was in the same room at the time, heard her friend
yell and observed Murphy extracting himself from the
bedclothes and leaving the room.
Evidently, the
1998 incident stayed under wraps, since Murphy went on to
become the county leader of the Young Republicans later that
year. According to the local press, he served two
terms as head of the Indiana Young Republicans and has
been the Clark County GOP chairman since 2001.
The national
group, an organization of Republicans ages 18 to 40, was
founded in 1931.
After his
election last month Murphy said he hoped to double the
organization's membership by November 2008.
"I will
essentially be the mouthpiece and effective leader for tens
of thousands of Young Republicans 18 to 40 across the
country," he said.
All references to
Murphy have now been erased from the Young Republican
Web site. (Ann Rostow, Gay.com)
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