Strained conversations at Fossella family dinners

The tale of New York Congressman Vito Fossella- whose arrest for DUI exposed his affair and child with a woman who isn't his wife with three kids back on Staten Island (Tuesday, The New York Post reports, he took time off from his scandal to attend his son's confirmation) - gets meaner and sadder by the day. Joe.My.God catalogues the "hard right conservative" representative's efforts to preserve the sanctity of marriage and deny gays the protection of law:

• "1998: Voted for an amendment to prohibit any funds to be used to carry out any joint adoption of a child between individuals who are not related by blood or marriage.
  
• 1999: Voted on an amendment banning adoptions in District of Columbia by gays or other individuals who are not related by blood or marriage.
  
• 2004: Voted for the Marriage Protection Amendment - Declares that marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Prohibits the Constitution or any State constitution from being construed to require that marital status or its legal incidents be conferred upon any union other than that of a man and a woman.
• 2007: Voted against the Matthew Sheppard Act.
  
• Voted to withhold federal housing funds from San Francisco unless it repeals its domestic partnership law.
• Voted to deny the District of Columbia the option of establishing domestic partnership laws.
  
• Voted to overturn President Clinton's executive order banning job discrimination against lesbian and gay federal employees.

Here's the kicker:

"A sad side note to Fossella's homophobia - he has an openly lesbian sister who has marched in NYC's pride parade with her partner and their twin children."