Is Gay Activist Michael Rogers Behind The Foley “Outing”?

Sweetness & Light ^ | October 3, 2006 | N/A

[Sam Hill]

From the gay advocacy giveaway, the Washington (DC) Blade:

Blade Caption: Florida Congressman Mark Foley (R) has vowed to vote against the Federal Marriage Amendment, but gay activist John Aravosis said he decided to out the congressman anyway because Foley supports the re-election of President Bush.

Mikulski and Foley become newest congressional targets as FMA vote nears

By ADRIAN BRUNE
Friday, July 09, 2004

... Mike Rogers and John Aravosis, [are] the two men loosely heading an ongoing outing campaign on the Hill. As the date nears for a Senate vote on the Federal Marriage Amendment, which would ban gay marriages in the Constitution, Rogers said the outings have picked up steam — from 13 documented offices to nearly 20 currently on a target list provided by Rogers to the Blade.

In addition to Tolman, Rogers and Aravosis, working in tandem but not together, claimed in the last week to have outed via the Web Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland and Republican Congressman Mark Foley of Florida...

A spokesperson for Congressman Mark Foley (R-Fla.) also declined to comment after Aravosis specifically asserted that Foley is gay on his Web site last week...

Aravosis continued to defend the outing campaign.

“An acquaintance of mine, a Southern Republican, worked for a member who was not anti-gay personally, but he signed on to the amendment [banning gay marriage],” Aravosis said. “My friend quit. I’m basically saying, ‘You know what, you have a choice. It’s 2004. You can work for pro-gay Democrats, and now you can work for pro-gay Republicans.’” ...

Over in the House, Republican Mark Foley said in March that he would vote against the Federal Marriage Amendment — one week after his spokesperson said he would not take a position on the measure until it came up for a House vote.

Despite Foley’s FMA opposition, Aravosis purported to out Foley as well, taking him to task for supporting President Bush, who endorsed the measure late last winter. Labeling Foley as “our latest closeted gay hypocrite,” Aravosis said Foley made the list for putting politics ahead of his own community by “whoring for an anti-gay president.” ...

Florida Congressman Mark Foley (R) has vowed to vote against the Federal Marriage Amendment, but gay activist John Aravosis said he decided to out the congressman anyway because Foley supports the re-election of President Bush.

Foley responded to the reports by initiating a telephone press conference among non-gay Florida media and called discussion about his sexual orientation “revolting.” He declined at that time to answer questions about his sexual orientation and subsequently abandoned his bid for the Senate, citing concerns over his father’s health.

Aravosis said he obtained the latest information about the five-term congressman from Foley’s former chief of staff, Kirk Fordham.

Fordham, who is gay, headed up fund-raising efforts for Foley’s aborted Senate campaign and is now the finance director for one of the remaining GOP primary candidates in that race: Mel Martinez, George W. Bush’s former Housing & Urban Development secretary. Martinez has come out in favor of the Federal Marriage Amendment.

Fordham denied ever speaking with Aravosis and told the Blade, “I just don’t discuss Congressman Foley’s personal life with reporters, but I’m not sure what their motive is in outing him, other than to draw attention to themselves. Foley has a good track record with gay issues and opposes the FMA.” ...

It seems very probable that one or all of the gentlemen mentioned in this article have had a hand in the recent revelations about Mark Foley.

It is equally likely that one or all of them is behind the anonymous website, StopSexPredators.blogspot.com, that first produced Foley's alleged emails out of the blue.

Michael Rogers started his own website, blogactive.com, back in July of 2004.

Oddly enough, there was a significant drop-off in his activities there after July of this year, which is when StopSexPredators.blogspot.com was begun.

From Alexa:

 

 

In his latest post at Blogactive Michael Rogers shows he has to Mark Foley's IM account:

A word of advice...

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Mark, when the entire nation learns your AOL chat name because you hit on underage kids, it's time to block others from seeing you online:

And here is an earlier entry from Mr. Rogers:

Good news... Bad news...

Sunday, October 01, 2006

Well the good news is that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is finally getting it. I called their Director of Communications, Bill Burton, before the Foley story broke to let him know about Foley (and another case) were coming down the pike. While Burton promised to have someone email or return my call and didn't, I am glad he followed up on my call and was ready on Friday to come out of the gate running.

The bad new is they are still not paying enough attention... There are others within reach... If the Democrats would only fight half as hard as the Republicans.

I posted comments at the DCCC website on the Foley entry. Not only do their promises of returned calls and emails never come to fruition, but now they are deleting my comments from their blog, The Stakeholder.

Luckily the comments were cached before they axed them.

Here's the one I put up at 9:55pm:

Here's the one I put up at 10:02pm:

Well, at least they are paying attention.

It appears that Mr. Rogers is bragging about his coup.

And how telling it is that the Stakeholder, the homepage of the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) would delete his posts.

[onyx]

Thanks, Julie.

[Mo1]

They want to control the investigation

Yep

[nopardons]

Oh yes and why stop there; I'm sure that we can all think of others to "out".

[nopardons]

Your nic doesn't suit you.

The GOP really does control the House, it's the Senate we have trouble with. And we can't have a GOP majority, in either House, without "moderate" to Liberal GOPers.

Please learn the meaning of RINO.....it does NOT mean a Republican who isn't so far to the right, that he/she is about to fall over the edge.

[onyx]

LOL --- thankfully, you're not too tired of setting some posters straight.

[Freedom is eternally right]

Howlin, do you know who the North Carolina person might be? From Rogers blog:

Anyone know...
Does anyone know the date after which candidates for Federal office cannot be taken off the ballot and replaced with another name in North Carolina, Georgia, Illinois and Texas? Thanks!

From his comments section:

Nope... This is not about the Senator. I know people are impatient on the Senator...but this time I have a media consultant working with me. The delay will be well worth the story's exposure. Mike Mike Rogers | Email | Homepage | 09.10.06 - 9:30 am Direct link to this comment

[TommyDale]

Be sure to see my post #54 in this thread.

[rintense]

To these bitter homosexuals, outing a Republican is the ultimate win. They view gay republicans as traitors, etc, and will do anything to tarnish both target and party.

[onyx]

I did, but I knew retrieval would require a court order. I was concerned with the ability to retrieve IM's.

[Eva]

I'm pretty sure that Grahm was threatened with outing, right at the end of the Clinton Impeachment trial, when they called him light in the loafers. It was right after that, that he started changing, becoming less and less conservative and moving toward McCain.

[BykrBayb]

It used to be so complicated, deciding which politicians represented our views, and which ones didn't. We had to evaluate moral issues like homosexuality, pedophilia, abuse of power, etc. The RINOs have made it so simple. As long as there's an "R" behind the name, anything goes. And the RINOs are offering to decide for us, who gets to have an "R" and who doesn't. They have a completely different set of criteria than the rest of us, choosing the ones who are most like dems, but it sure saves us conservatives a lot of time and trouble.

[nopardons]

LOL......I'm trying to get ready to go away again, just waiting for some things to dry, so that I can go back to ironing, so here I am; chopping down some posters to size...with the facts. :-)

[onyx]

IL or FL?

[<1/1,000,000th%]

... Mike Rogers and John Aravosis, [are] the two men loosely heading an ongoing outing campaign on the Hill.

Wake me when these sissies decide to take on Hillary.

[nopardons]

Gotta be old Lindsay.

[nopardons]

bttt

[Mo1]

Did you just here Major Garret on Special Report about the comment from Foley's attorney??

Now he is claiming the reason he is gay and going after young boys because he was molested by a priest when he was 13

[Howlin]

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NC-03
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NC-10
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[nopardons]

FL.....the last one was to Ill.! And we'll be off to Ill for Christmas; I can't wait for that. :-)

[Howlin]

Was there a press conference? Did I miss that?