Larry Brinkin, San Francisco gay rights icon, arrested on child porn charges: police

Sick bastard, hope he is convicted and sent ot prison where he can learn all about being on the receiving end of sexual violence.  Against kids, no less.

Another sick bastard hypocrite from the left exposed. But hey lets cry about how saying under god in the constitution is barbaric.

Just like another rapist idolized by the left, Roman Polanski claims the #metoo movement is just mass hysteria. The poor little snowflakes shook that tree and after all the leaves fell it exposed their hypocrisy.

Just goes to further prove that any segment of society has it's sickos

Very old news.   Why are you posting it today?

Because I saw it today on MSN.com and hadn't seen it before.  Why are you asking stupid questions like that?

Sounds like you have your news filters set at "6 years out of date."

Is that what makes one a conservative?

Why are you asking stupid questions like that?

Hey man - don't be too rough - we all have our jobs to do. Just acknowledge it when someone over-performs.

hope he is convicted and sent ot prison

" Larry Brinkin was sentenced to one year in county jail Wednesday for possessing child pornography. As part of a plea agreement, Brinkin, 67, will serve six months of his sentence in county jail and six months in home detention, the district attorney's office said. He will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life."

He was arrested 6 years ago, was sentenced over four years ago.

This conviction was far more recent for a far worse crime, why not post this?

"Republican former house speaker Dennis Hastert, once among the nation’s most powerful politicians, was sentenced on Wednesday to 15 months in prison for illegally structuring bank transactions in an effort to cover up his sexual abuse of young members of a wrestling team he coached decades ago."

nytimes

Both are scum bags, but neither should be used to paint an entire group with any sort of broad brush, whether gay, straight or Republican.

Both are scum bags, but neither should be used to paint an entire group with any sort of broad brush, whether gay, straight or Republican.

That is true - scumbags on both sides of the isle.......but hypocrisy seems to have made it's permanent home on the left side. In fact it would seem that the only information you need to identify a liberal's worst transgressions is to know their stated passion - to listen to what they lecture others about.

Hillary and female empowerment for instance....or Eric Schneiderman and the #MeToo movement, or the Democratic National Committee and election tampering.....

So when I hear a liberal lecture others about the way liberals LOVE children I immediately thing of Liberals and abortion rights, liberals and a refusal to secure our borders against terrorists, drug dealers and MS-13 gang members that prey on our children - and now when liberal goobers lecture others on loving children I can remember Larry Brinkin and HIS passion.

Excuse me. What Mr. Brinkin turned into, depending on how long he was involved in it, is a felonious person.  If it is indicative of anything (and it is so), then it is the issues people fight in their flesh all the time. It has not to do with a cultural, social, or political, class of choice! That's my opinion.

You cheapen the felony, when you put it away from its true meaning. Mr. Brinkin did something (by viewing child porn) unspeakable. Mr. Brinkin owed "society" an explanation for such behavior. No other group—Just Brinkin!

You cheapen the felony, when you put it away from its true meaning.

I did not cheapen anything - merely pointed out that abhorrent, heinous behavior perpetrated by liberal is often mirrored in their public passions. 

No other group

How about you stick to what I said and rebut that rather than get upset about what I didn't say.

I did not imply that all liberals are kiddie porn perps, wife beaters or traitors - or anything else. What I did say is that there is an overwhelming number of liberal goobers in politics that are hypocritical. Amazingly so. I didn't intend to hurt you feelings - I did however intend to shed light on this predominant liberal character flaw. Sometimes the truth hurts.

I did not cheapen anything - merely pointed out that abhorrent, heinous behavior perpetrated by liberal is often mirrored in their public passions.

I guess you haven't seen our Nazis when they put a little "rally" together.  Nice glass house you got there.

I immediately thing of Liberals and abortion rights, liberals and a refusal to secure our borders against terrorists, drug dealers

Why? Liberals have supported funding for border security, they simply refuse to treat undocumented immigrants inhumanely, it's the Republicans who are wanting to separate children from their parents if found to be undocumented. Liberals also fight against gangs and drug dealers and recognize that the best way to combat the violence that comes with black market drug sales is to decriminalize and tax most illicit drugs, then the money spent on the "war on drugs" can be far better spent on rehabilitation and treatment where it can actually make a difference.

The true hypocrites are the self righteous conservatives who claim to be morally superior with "God" on their side, but support candidates like Dennis Hastert (R), Roy Moore (R), Donald Trump (R), Pat Meehan (R), Jeff Hoover (R), Jeff Kruse (R), Jack Latvala (R), Wes Goodman (R), Tony Cornish (R), Chris Meyers (R), Phillip Hinkle (R), Mike Duvall (R), Mark Sanford (R), John Ensign (R), Larry Craig (R), Charles Routin (R), Bob Allen (R), Mark Foley (R), James West (R), Bob Livingston (R), Bob Packwood (R), Ken Calvert (R), Buz Lukens (R), Dan Crane (R) and Tim Murphy (R) just to name a few. With so many (R)'s accused of (R)ape, sexual assault and sexual misconduct it makes one wonder what the (R) really stands for...

It hurts Mr. Brinkin, because he has faced "the System" and must continue out his days with a 'scarlett letter' of sex offender. No one else can wear his tailored marking. This is not about politics. Mr. Jerry Sandusky , a convicted pedophile abuser of young boys, life-long Penn State Assistant Coach under Joe Paterno, life-long republican, life-long Methodist, is nowadays serving time in SuperMax prison. He is there alone, without any official Republican Party affiliation or official Methodist title. 

In my opinion, Mr. Sandusky did the crime alone, was judged alone, and importantly, is serving time—alone.

Final verdict: Ideologies are amorphous things that can't do time - S/he who does the crime must do the time!

I did not cheapen anything - merely pointed out that abhorrent, heinous behavior perpetrated by liberal is often mirrored in their public passions.

wait a minute.. the "liberal" and the "left" are apart of the party that prides itself, touts and runs on being "morally superior" , even in their platform, due to their beliefs ?

We are the party of peace through strength. We believe that American exceptionalism — the notion that our ideas and principles as a nation give us a unique place of moral leadership in the world

from:  https://prod-cdn-static.gop.com/media/documents/DRAFT_12_FINAL[1]-ben_1468872234.pdf

and you are telling me that this is from the "liberal" and the "left" party platform ? 

but hypocrisy seems to have made it's permanent home on the left side. 

nope, it looks clear what side hypocrisy seems to have made it's permanent home , given the party platform, correct ? if that's your idea of "moral leadership" - with the hypocrisy abound - i'm not sure we have the same idea of "moral leadership" .

As of March 6 2014, he was sentenced to one year in county jail for possessing child pornography.

What's being reported turns my stomach yet withhold condemnation of the individual until the investigation is completed.  If found guilty may he spend years behind bars. 

See my comment of 1.5

  See mine at 5...after realizing this had already been adjudicated.

Oh wow.  Tracking. . . .

Upon further vetting this article, appears this occurred in 2012 and was adjudicated in 2014. 

winteryknight

Veteran gay rights advocate and former San Francisco Human Rights Commission staffer Larry Brinkin pleaded guilty Tuesday to possessing child pornography.

Brinkin, 67, changed his plea in a deal with the district attorney’s office that will result in a sentencing recommendation of six months in county jail, six months of home detention, five years of probation and lifetime registration as a sex offender.

Thank you LynneA, you beat me to it...............seemed like old, old news.

cnsnews

My pleasure.  After reading:

Another sick bastard hypocrite from the left exposed. But hey lets cry about how saying under god in the constitution is barbaric.

I was compelled to look into this further...being a lefty and all

yeah....that irritated me, too. I was expecting a bullshit line of crap coming along about pedophiles and gay men.....

That's shoots down the BS about a gay man can't be a pedophile.

That seems a bit of hyperbole. Who has said that ever? 

That's shoots down the BS about a gay man can't be a pedophile. You can bet your ass he isn't the only gay male pedophile. From personal experience, I know better.

The first piece of that BS to unpack is that no one has ever claimed no gay men have been pedophiles.  The second piece is to inform you that  vast majority of men who prey on boys are repressed homosexuals who lead apparently heterosexual live and never been identified by anyone as being gay.  This has been found by multiple studies of the profiles of sexual abusers of boys over many years vs. your study of one.

vast majority of men who prey on boys are repressed homosexuals who lead apparently heterosexual live and never been identified by anyone as being gay.  This has been found by multiple studies of the profiles of sexual abusers of boys over many years vs. your study of one.

Actually psychologists who study this issue say that the overwhelming majority of pedophiles are married men who self-identify as straight and that the majority of that group (60%) will abuse children of either sex since the paraphilia is focused on the prepubescent traits of the victim.    Jerry Sandusky would be a good example of that kind of pedophile or hebephile.

Overall there's a slight negative correlation between being gay and being a pedophile, especially for gay men:

For the present discussion, the important point is that many child molesters cannot be meaningfully described as homosexuals, heterosexuals, or bisexuals (in the usual sense of those terms) because they are not really capable of a relationship with an adult man or woman. Instead of gender, their sexual attractions are based primarily on age . These individuals – who are often characterized as fixated – are attracted to children, not to men or women.

Using the fixated-regressed distinction, Groth and Birnbaum (1978) studied 175 adult males who were convicted in Massachusetts of sexual assault against a child. None of the men had an exclusively homosexual adult sexual orientation. 83 (47%) were classified as "fixated;" 70 others (40%) were classified as regressed adult heterosexuals; the remaining 22 (13%) were classified as regressed adult bisexuals. Of the last group, Groth and Birnbaum observed that "in their adult relationships they engaged in sex on occasion with men as well as with women. However, in no case did this attraction to men exceed their preference for women....There were no men who were primarily sexually attracted to other adult males..." (p.180).

Other researchers have taken different approaches, but have similarly failed to find a connection between homosexuality and child molestation. Dr. Carole Jenny and her colleagues reviewed 352 medical charts, representing all of the sexually abused children seen in the emergency room or child abuse clinic of a Denver children's hospital during a one-year period (from July 1, 1991 to June 30, 1992). The molester was a gay or lesbian adult in fewer than 1% of cases in which an adult molester could be identified – only 2 of the 269 cases (Jenny et al., 1994).

psychology.ucdavis

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"Repressed homosexuals" are the ones who join the GOP and live quiet lives of desperation.

Thank you and Mr. Larry Brinkin has destroyed his legacy. Disturbing, sad, and deserving of judgement. Thank goodness, he was caught and prosecuted. I do remember hearing about this, but the mind can only contain so much trash. Sometimes,. . . I wonder how law enforcement officials and judges sit through listening, seeing, and processing all the filth which comes before them!

Thank you and Mr. Larry Brinkin has destroyed his legacy. Disturbing, sad, and deserving of judgement.

I hope you're not buying into this BS that this is  common behavior  for homosexual men. 

What? I am a homosexual man and it is definitely not common for me. Never even in my wildest dreams, so to speak! But, I can not pretend to be a pink-foot baby who has not heard of the horrors mankind does. Sigh*. Sigh*. Sigh*.  I remember this story wore my spirit out when it initially was breaking news and it is doing so yet again. As a homosexual man we need true heroes. I am "worn out" by all the narratives of leaders and celebrities whom in the late seasons of their lives lose their 'glory' (legacy) due to some pass (or enduring) character flaw.

I do understand how hard life can be on us as characters in a larger society scheme! You and me, are on the same page with this, in my opinion.

That SOB needs to die!  A one year old.....God help us all.

I agree this guy is a complete POS and I hope he received a severe sentence but the death penalty for downloading a picture seems a little excessive. 

I hope he received a severe sentence

You both fell for another one of spikegarys "smear the leftists" campaigns, this story is over 6 years old, the conviction happened four years ago, and has no bearing on other "leftists" or gay people in general even though that's what spikegary is attempting to insinuate.

You both fell

Sorry DP but I did not fall for anything (see 1.2), was well aware of the intent and knew how dated this info was.  I have to admit to being somewhat surprised as usually (imo) spike seems to be above that kind of behaviour and a pretty good guy.

Was unaware the punishment was so light.  A little disappointing but thanks for letting us know (at 1.4)

A one year old.....God help us all.

You'd think it was a massive attack of baby-eating zombies reading that. 

So this entire article is trolling?  If that isn't a violation of the CoC, it should be and it should be taken down.

Well, it appears that you fell for it too!

No use trying to hide the facts of this case.

Disappointed this seed remains active.  Doesn't appear news worthy as it occurred six years ago, adjudicated four years ago and the individual has served his time and currently on probation. 

History is longer than 6 years.

In other news, former President George Washington has been named a prime suspect in the unlawful cutting of a cherry tree.

Seed being closed. Not current news.