Making a Mountain Out of a Molehill

So the nation's first openly gay mayor, Portland's Sam Adams, is being called to resign because he dated someone 25 years younger and lied about it. Yeah, I understand that if he did the guy when he was still only 17, then it was illegal, but supposedly they waited until the guy turned 18--a matter of months. Either way, who cares, seriously?
No, Adams shouldn't have lied about it, obviously that is the real issue here, and definitely made everything so much worse and harder for himself than if he had just been open about it. But if it was just a personal indiscretion, and Adams didn't misuse his city council position for Breedlove's benefit, then what's the big deal? Yes, his lying about the relationship and nature thereof causes a lack of trust in him, but is Adams' dating history the public's business in the first place? I don't think so. He initially characterized the relationship as a mentor and protege' type situation, then backtracked and admitted that they were dating and slept together. I don't necessarily find the two to be mutually exclusive. Remember all those Platonic dialogues? They were frickin' dirty: Socrates debating with all his young proteges, teaching them, and then doing them in the meantime. Yet Platonic dialogues are in the literary and historical canon. This teaching method (minus the sex) is used in all law schools, and is called the "Socratic Method."

So Adams lied. He was probably embarrassed that he dated someone so ridiculously young. But almost everyone has dated someone that they wished they hadn't. People not in the public eye can just call it a mistake and/or a learning experience. But woe to those in the public eye, they're apparently not allowed to make the same mistakes everyone else has.

Get over it, people. Most likely, it's so NOT a big deal.