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There is now additional evidence that Louisiana Republican Senator David Vitter has a habit of paying women to have sex with him.

Such a personal crime, in itself, is not strongly related to Senator Vitter’s public service. However, it does call into question the foundation of Senator Vitter’s right wing political agenda: So-called “family values”.

In defending Senator Vitter from accusations of extramarital sexual affairs, his office stated, “The senator is focused on important Louisiana priorities like the water resources bill and the Iraq debate.”

The truth is, that’s only a part of what David Vitter is working on as a United States Senator. A big part of Senator Vitter’s work in Washington D.C. is to promote a religiously-motivated repression of sexual freedom and family medical services.

David Vitter has a long history of voting against the sexual freedom of other people, and against rights for loving, faithful families that center around two people who happen to be of the same gender. Vitter votes to deny homosexual couples equal marriage rights, using the excuse that homosexuality somehow threatens the sanctity of marriage. Yet, at the same time, Senator Vitter has been running around abusing the sanctity of his own marriage. Homosexuals were not to blame for that. David Vitter was to blame.

This year Senator Vitter voted against funding for a program to distribute contraceptives, and made the same excuse, saying that distributing contraceptives would encourage immoral sexual behavior. Well, in Senator Vitter’s case, I don’t see how condoms are responsible for sexual immorality. The birth control pill didn’t make David Vitter cheat on his wife.

The public offense of Senator David Vitter is not his extramarital affairs, or his use of prostitutes. That’s all between David Vitter, his wife, and the local police.

The public offense of Senator David Vitter is to deny equal rights under the law to many American families, and to refuse government support for programs that help people plan their families and maintain them in healthy ways. David Vitter’s offense is to promote an anti-family agenda, and placing it into the disguise of conservative Christian religion, all the while betraying the requirements of that religion.

Vitter has cheated on the American people. That’s the affair that matters.