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Posted on 10/14/2006 7:20:42 AM PDT by melt
BOSTON - Former U.S. Rep. Gerry Studds, the first openly gay person elected to Congress, died early Saturday at Boston Medical Center, a hospital official said. He was 69.
Christian Kiriakos, central administrator at the hospital, said Studds died between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. He did not have additional information, and details of Studds' death could not be immediately confirmed.
Studds, a liberal Democrat who spent more than 20 years in Congress, was censured by the House in the 1980s for having sex with a 17-year-old male page. He was re-elected for several more terms.
Last year he married his longtime partner, Dean Hara, in Boston.
Mmmmm.... Tasty, tasty karma...
"BOSTON - Former U.S. Rep. Gerry Studds, the first openly gay person elected to Congress, died early Saturday at Boston Medical Center, several days after he collapsed while walking his dog, his husband said. He was 69."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061014/ap_on_re_us/obit_studds
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Note the use of the term "his husband"...??
While this is not cause for gloating, it's ironic that he died while the Mark Foley scandal was still on the airwaves.
Anal-rectal disorder.
Studds was a teacher at St. Paul's School from 1965 to 1969. He wasn't there when John Kerry was a student. But one does have to wonder if there wasn't some scandal there as well.
East Coast voters do have a greater tolerance for sexual scandals. What's striking is that Cape Cod, which was a large part of Studds's district, had been rural, moralistic, and Republican almost forever. Studds's election and his district's turning a blind eye to his conduct marked a sea change in the region's history.
You understand that he was a) a democrat and b) from Massachussets. Exactly why is this hard for you to believe?
--- Indeed.
Sounds like a right-wing conspiracy centered around Studdley's dog named Rove-r.
;-)
Translation: Caligula.
BTW, didn't Caligula marry his horse?
No, he appointed his horse to the Senate.
Not coerced. According to the AP story as it appears on the NY Times web site, "Studds defended the relationship as a consensual relationship with a young adult. The page later appeared publicly with Studds in support of him."
And to think he married only last year. UGH
So benign-sounding--- "his husband". They quietly snuck that little gem in, didn't they?
It must be part of the MSM's incremental "boil-the-frog" gay agenda.
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... his husband said." ...
So Studds was the wife?
Actually, it was covered in the MSM at the time, but there was a counterbalance (moral equivalency) with a GOP Congressman having had relations with a female page ... guess who lost his seat, and who continued in Congress, eventually assuming a powerful committee position?
Are we sure this pervert was WALKING his dog?
" I've heard of rough sex but this is ridiculous!"
Maybe he choked to death.
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