Ginger White, an Atlanta businesswoman, claims she has been involved with presidential hopeful Herman Cain for 13 years. Fox Atlanta has the story:

Over the Thanksgiving weekend, FOX 5 senior I-Team reporter Dale Russell sat down with Ginger White, who had an amazing story to tell…

Cain’s attorney sez:

“This is not an accusation of harassment in the workplace — this is not an accusation of an assault — which are subject matters of legitimate inquiry to a political candidate. Rather, this appears to be an accusation of private, alleged consensual conduct between adults — a subject matter which is not a proper subject of inquiry by the media or the public. No individual, whether a private citizen, a candidate for public office or a public official, should be questioned about his or her private sexual life.”

Hm. Interesting — no individual should be questioned about his or her private sexual life. Unless you’re gay, of course. Because Herman Cain believes in Traditional Marriage (one man, one woman, a long-term affair, and sexually harassing random women in the workplace). Gays are second-class citizens to the GOP in terms of marriage rights. Philanderers, on the other hand, marry and divorce (or marry and philander) as much as they like, over and over, with numerous and varied people. But that’s private:

CAIN ON OCTOBER 16, 2011: “I wouldn’t seek a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, but I am pro-traditional marriage.”

CAIN ON OCTOBER 22, 2011: “I think marriage should be protected at the federal level also. I used to believe that it could be just handled by the states but there’s a movement going on to basically take the teeth out of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act and that could cause an unraveling, so we do need some protection at the federal level because of that and so yes I would support legislation that would say that it’s between a man and a woman.”

Let’s be honest: the institution of marriage should be protected from hypocrites and philanderers like Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich.