Remember this story?
Proposed bill to classify in vitro children as "illegitimate."
The sponsor of the bill in the Tennessee House was interesting enough. Terri Lynn Weaver is a former wannabe gospel singer whose own website once awarded her “Entertainer of the year.”
But now the sponsor in the Tennessee State Senate has hit the news, and you cannot make this stuff up. Here is the story of Senator Joey Hensley in the Nashville Scene.
A doctor and his younger nurse fall in love. They continue their torrid affair even after his ex-wife tips off the nurse’s husband, a local politician, to the salacious goings-on. As the divorce moves forward, discovery turns up that the nurse is not just the doctor’s employee and his lover, but his patient, with a predilection for pain pills. And, oh, she’s his second cousin, too.
But this is not General Hospital, not Grey’s Anatomy. This is the town of Hohenwald (pop. 3,703) in Lewis County, where bitter divorce proceedings have brought to light possibly unethical behavior by Dr. Joey Hensley, a Republican state senator who also happens to be a family physician — and one who has run for office since 2002 on a platform of conservative Christian values.
Read on! He was cheating on his fourth wife with his nurse for whom he was prescribing opioids. That she is his second cousin is the least shocking and offensive part of it. This is the family-values champion who thinks that lesbians having test-tube babies is the problem that needs to be solved.
I now live in the state where Scott Dejarlais is the second scummiest politician. God help us.