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They don’t write them much better than this: Rod Jetton, the former Missouri House Speaker who was charged on Monday with choking and beating his girlfriend after she failed to use the “safe word,” fired a state lawmaker from his committee chairmanship in 2007 after that man wanted to end a state ban on gay sex. In an op-ed at the time, Jetton attacked the man for wanting to allow “deviate sexual intercourse.” The safe word that Jetton’s girlfriend allegedly failed to utter was “green balloons.”