Posted on 10/04/2006 4:50:58 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Anyone and everyone — Republican or Democrat – who is involved in the effort on Capitol Hill to purge gay Republican staffers using “The List” needs to cease this outing witchhunt immediately.
Please call the Capitol Hill offices of House Speaker Hastert, Senate Majority Leader Frist as well as House Minority Leader Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid.
Demand that they issue a statement calling on all House and Senate Members and their staff to stop this outing campaign immediately.
This type of behavior is un-American. If the Human Rights Campaign, Log Cabin Republicans or the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force won’t stand up to this witchhunt atmosphere, then we sure will here.
HASTERT: 202-225-2976 PELOSI: 202-225-4965 FRIST: 202-224-3344 REID: 202-224-3524
Massive LOL. They scream when like babies when the sh!t they threw in the air comes down on their heads.
Boy you hit the nail on the head big time!
Note to the homos--remember, the Nazis used Ernst Roehm and his gay boys in the SA in their rise to power. As soon as they became "inconvenient", it was hammer time...
The FreeRepublic is out in front again.
The page who was sent the emails was 16, and the emails were just overly friendly, not sexually suggestive. No physical contact.
The page who participated in the IM exchange was 18 and legally an adult. The IMs were sexually explicit. Do you think this is still a problem ? Creepy, sick, but still legal.
Monica was an intern, a subordinate of her "partner". The 18yo was no longer a page, no longer a subordinate, as I understand the situation.
Monica was a worse scandal IMO.
LOL !
Our side doesn't get diversity "points" for gay tolerance - there's no upside - but lots of downside. Dems are always gunning for these two groups - groups they feel "belong" to them...
It might be too large a battle.
Is it time for Republican gays to form a conservative wing in the Democrat Party? Conservative gays are protected that way, and so are we....
I like any gay who is patriotic. "Outing" only works for the Democrats. Conservative gays can have legitimate reasons for being in the closet or half in the closet. While loony liberal gays want it all to hang out and don't care if their family back in small town America is publicly embarrassed by them and their "out", very out, behavior
Good ideas...
And there's no age difference provision? Some states have laws that differentiate, so that a 19 year old with a 15 year old (who could be a fellow high school student, or was the previous year) wouldn't qualify as statutory rape, but an older man with a 15 year old girl would. That's a sensible approach IMO.
I haven't seen all of the details of the messages and who sent what. But I don't believe for a second that a Congressman who has been exchanging explicit messages with an 18 year old page/former page, and has been caught exchanging unusually friendly messages with a 16 year old page, and who at least on one occasion showed up at the page dorm drunk late at night, was keeping his hands off any young men below 18 or any young men who were still in the page program. I just don't believe it. And if the DC age of consent for boys is a flat 16 (rather than with an age difference provision for 16-17 year olds), then he stayed within the letter of the law, at least as far as pages are concerned (since the minimum age for pages is 16). But again, I have a lot of trouble believing he wasn't up to other similar activities with boys below 16. When somebody is sufficiently out of control to do the things Foley is known to have done, they are simply out of control, and not carefully observing legal technicalities.
I guess they never leave there brothers behind...
They are keeping the names of the ones they consider to be friendly to the "gay agenda" under wraps. Can you say blackmail?
I don't know. I'm just watching the gays eat their own. No pun intended.
If they're not molesting kids, I see no reason why most of they would be "lost". If they are molesting kids, their fiscal conservativism shouldn't protect them.
It's dish, dish, dish
• In 1983, then-Democratic Rep. Gerry Studds of Massachusetts was caught in a similar situation. In his case, Studds had sex with a male teenage page -- something Foley hasn't been charged with.
Did Studds express contrition? Resign? Quite the contrary. He rejected Congress' censure of him and continued to represent his district until his retirement in 1996.
• In 1989, Rep. Barney Frank, also of Massachusetts, admitted he'd lived with Steve Gobie, a male prostitute who ran a gay sex-for-hire ring out of Frank's apartment. Frank, it was later discovered, used his position to fix 33 parking tickets for Gobie.
What happened to Frank? The House voted 408-18 to reprimand him -- a slap on the wrist. Today he's an honored Democratic member of Congress, much in demand as a speaker and "conscience of the party."
• In 2001, President Clinton, who had his own intern problem, commuted the prison sentence of Illinois Rep. Mel Reynolds, who had sex with a 16-year-old campaign volunteer and pressured her to lie about it. (Reynolds also was convicted of campaign spending violations.)
http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=244680809798238
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