Yahoo! News - NJ Gov. McGreevey Resigns Over Homosexual Affair
TRENTON, N.J (Reuters) - New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey, who earlier this year said he opposed gay marriage, announced on Thursday he would resign and admitted to having a homosexual affair.

McGreevey, who is married with two children, told reporters he had a consensual affair with another man and that he had been conflicted over his sexuality since adolescence.

"Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity," McGreevey told a news conference, making reference to his Catholic upbringing.

The Democrat spoke about the love, strength and respect of both his first and second wives but said, "From my early days of school until the present day, I acknowledged some feeling, a certain sense that separated me from others."

"My truth is is that I am a gay American and I am blessed to live in the greatest nation with the greatest tradition of civil liberties in the world," he said.

Just think of the pain he (and others) would have been spared had he been able to be himself his whole life.