The Continuing Story Of Foley - Political Forum

CHUQ · 10-08-2006, 05:23 AM

I saw that FOX news identifyed Rep. Mark Foley as D-FL; wishful thinking? Or because he is a drunk, metal deranged, sexual abused gay man he must be a democrat?

CHUQ · 10-09-2006, 06:19 AM

And now, it would seem that Foley was chasing zippers as far back as 6 yrs.. Now all Repubs are apologizing for not doing more. STOP! I cannot take it anymore!

Coyote Says · 10-10-2006, 01:15 PM

Scapegoating gay Republicans? Here's the worst idea I've heard all week:

Quote:

Salon.com

Ever since the Mark Foley scandal began to raise questions about how much Republican House leaders knew about the former Florida congressman's page problems, there have been whispers that the political mess could become an excuse for the GOP to bash gays. The same day that Foley's lawyer announced that his client was gay (an open secret around the nation's capital), CBS News reported that a senior House Republican "says there's a lot of anger at what he describes as 'a network of gay staffers and gay members who protect each other and did the speaker a disservice.'" On his blog the next day, the Nation's David Corn reported that a list of closeted gay GOP staffers had been sent to at least seven conservative Christian groups in an attempt to "set off a civil war within the GOP, to turn the anti-gay social cons against the GOP's Velvet Mafia."

But the first public shots in the war have been fired not by GOP leaders or the Christian right but by a Washington-based gay rights activist and Democrat, Michael Rogers. Known for a 2004 campaign to out closeted GOP gays, Rogers, a little grayer and just as scruffy and intense, is now threatening to use his blog to name gay staffers working for GOP leaders he alleges have been involved in covering up the Foley scandal.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/20...rogers_outing/

This is wrong on so many levels. First of all, it's never OK to out anyone who doesn't wish to be outed. Period. Their consciences are their own business. I can't see anything to be gained by this.

CHUQ · 10-11-2006, 05:23 AM

I agree that it is wrong--no amount of good intensions or otherwise could justify outing someone that would prefer to stay in. I believe a group called, Family Research Center (not positive about name) is a conserv tghing that may be a pain to gays. They are rattling the anti-gay saber.