A Texas Republican city council candidate is facing felony child pornography charges after being arrested just hours before the elections.

Brad Benson, a candidate for Place #4 on the city council of Granbury, located just southwest of Fort Worth, was arrested on November 6. “I can confirm he was arrested by the District Attorney’s Office yesterday and charged with two felony child pornography charges, he should have a bond set today,” Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds told Newsweek.

The Republican Party of Hood County (RPHC) withdrew its support for Benson after more details about the charges emerged.

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    I am a gay man

    sexuality shouldn’t be flaunted in parades

    just on websites?

    come on man, if a “parade” is flaunting, so is a fucking website. have some fucking consistency in your ass backwards shit for brains beliefs

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      First of all, fuck that guy.

      But a parade is pretty much the definition of flaunting. It’s intentionally in your face and hard to ignore, unlike a web site. It’s entirely justified flaunting IMHO, and also not what homophobes are generally referring to when they accuse LGBT+ people of flaunting their sexuality, but I don’t see what’s gained by saying it’s not flaunting.

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        I’d argue that writing something unencrypted and ungated on a website for the purpose of someone else to read meets a certain definition of “flaunt.”

        It’s a different kind, but also - unless you carry a sign with your name on it, being in a parade is anonymous, this was “flaunted” on a site directly related to this person and their political career, so the expectation is for it to be publicly available and to be read by others by the author - again, a different but valid definition of “flaunt.”

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      I’m sure he is equally disgusted by the displays of heterosexuality in most parades, or maybe he is blind to that because that’s “normal”.