“The parents were happy,” said Hastert.

“They were happy that their son was being targeted by a gay Republican rather than a gay Democrat and I’m inviting them and their son to my wedding ”, Hastert said.

Hastert revealed that “we’re all good Christian gay men in the Republican leadership and the President, who is a cross-dresser, says it’s just a bit of naughty fun but nice and no harm to anyone”.

“Could we have done it better? Could the page board have handled it better?”

“In retrospect, probably yes. But at that time, we knew we were having just a bit of naughty fun and thought that the media would understand and not publish."

“After all, we’ve slaughtered countless children in Iraq, for nothing, and the media went along”, he said.