Wes Goodman was a married, "pro family" (read: anti-gay) Republican in the Ohio state legislature, and things were going pretty smoothly. Until this week when he abruptly resigned. Unfortunately for him, it came to light that he was having sex with another man in his office at the state capitol.

At first this story sounds like a throwback to more innocent times, the karmic days when anti-LGBT Republicans couldn't stop flirting in men's rooms or taking rent boys with them to Europe. They'd get the disgrace they deserved, not for their politics, unfortunately, but for failing to play straight. But sadly this has a 2017 twist. While the state capitol tryst that cost Goodman his seat was consensual, Cleveland.com found that he often trawled Craigslist for gay hook ups, and they report that "he exchanged salacious texts and emails with gay men he met on Capitol Hill, and sent sexually suggestive messages to young men he met through conservative circles who were too intimidated to publicly complain, according to three people who knew him when he worked in Washington."

The Washington Post also reports that Goodman groped an 18-year-old college student after a 2015 fundraiser. The student's family demanded action from the head of the group that hosted the fundraiser, Tony Perkins, who also heads the vehemently anti-gay Family Research Council. Perkins withdrew support for Goodman and privately told him to drop out of the race for the Ohio legislature. Whether he made any real efforts to prevent Goodman from allegedly harassing or assaulting people over the next two years remains to be seen. What is clear from the Posts reporting though is that multiple people knew about the allegations against Goodman and never went public.

But GOP hypocrisy is a feature, not a bug. Goodman stayed in the closet so long for the same reasons that Republicans spent so much energy to keep transgender people out of public bathrooms but aren't actually bothered that Roy Moore could be a real-life child predator. As long as you help the party get power, it doesn't matter what you do or who you stalk in private.