Family and Personal Life
On August 3, 1991, McCrery married the former Johnette Hawkins (born 1966), a former television newswoman. They are now divorced, she remarried on October 1, 2011. They have two children, Scott and Clark. McCrery is a Methodist.
McCrery was one of a number of political figures profiled in the 2009 documentary Outrage, a film which claimed to out closeted gay public officials who had supported anti-gay legislation. The film's discussion of McCrery's purported homosexuality was based largely on a September 1992 article in The Advocate, entitled "The Outing of a Family-Values Congressman," which upon publication had received little attention and no corroboration from the mainstream press. In response to the film, McCreary said he had heard about but not seen it, adding that "This is not the first time I've had to deal with this sort of thing. It's best for me -- and I would tell anyone else mentioned in the film -- not to comment on it." In the past, both the congressman and his wife Johnette have strongly denied the allegations.
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