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elfsMark Foley, the Congressman caught sending sexually suggestive emails to teenage boys, has announced that he's gay. He has also announced that he was abused by a Catholic clergyman when he was 13 years old.
I'm furious about this. Not only is all Republican pretense to "personal responsibility" now dismissed as "oh, something we said to get elected," but now Foley has ended his career in the House with a gift to the radical right. Here's the headline from James Dobson's people next week: The Lesson of Mark Foley: Homosexuals With Authority Over Children Leads To Abuse. The annoying adman turned pundit Ben Stein has already written an op-ed which ends, "Don't get me wrong. My very best friend is gay. ... [But] I hope it won't come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys."
I think Ben is projecting. I hope he isn't.
I can't think of anything more disgusting to come out of this mess than this little turd we've been left with. Foley took one step forward and then single-handledly shoved the entire gay rights movement two steps back. They were small steps, but nobody should have had to take them.
Mark Foley needs to go quietly into his little Church of Scientology-run rehabilitation clinic ("for alcoholism and other behavioral problems"-- I love that last bit) and shut the fuck up. He's not doing any good with his trap open.
(I see that XMMS, the Linux version of WinAMP, is totally psychic this morning. I'm normally very protective of my hearing, but I totally cranked this one. It's the live version, too.)
I'm furious about this. Not only is all Republican pretense to "personal responsibility" now dismissed as "oh, something we said to get elected," but now Foley has ended his career in the House with a gift to the radical right. Here's the headline from James Dobson's people next week: The Lesson of Mark Foley: Homosexuals With Authority Over Children Leads To Abuse. The annoying adman turned pundit Ben Stein has already written an op-ed which ends, "Don't get me wrong. My very best friend is gay. ... [But] I hope it won't come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys."
I think Ben is projecting. I hope he isn't.
I can't think of anything more disgusting to come out of this mess than this little turd we've been left with. Foley took one step forward and then single-handledly shoved the entire gay rights movement two steps back. They were small steps, but nobody should have had to take them.
Mark Foley needs to go quietly into his little Church of Scientology-run rehabilitation clinic ("for alcoholism and other behavioral problems"-- I love that last bit) and shut the fuck up. He's not doing any good with his trap open.
(I see that XMMS, the Linux version of WinAMP, is totally psychic this morning. I'm normally very protective of my hearing, but I totally cranked this one. It's the live version, too.)
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Date: 2006-10-04 09:43 pm (UTC)I like her version of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights too, makes Kate sound like Jim Steinman, not neccessarily a good thing, but fun!