Posted on 10/15/2006 11:00:52 AM PDT by indcons
Gerry E. Studds, the first openly gay person elected to Congress and a longtime proponent of environmental protection, New England fishermen and human rights, died Oct. 14 at Boston Medical Center, several days after he collapsed while walking his dog. He was 69.
Mr. Studds lost consciousness because of a blood clot in his lung Oct. 3. He later regained consciousness and seemed to be improving, but his condition worsened Friday because of a second clot, according to Dean Hara, who married Mr. Studds in 2004 shortly after same-sex marriage was legalized in Massachusetts.
A 12-term congressman from Massachusetts, Mr. Studds was a ranking member of the House Democratic leadership and popular in his 10th Congressional District in 1983 when he was censured for sexual misconduct with a 17-year-old male page that had occurred 10 years earlier.
Mr. Studds told the House that his affair with the page was "a very serious error in judgment" but that it was "a mutually voluntary, private relationship between adults."
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Maybe when he saw a gay republican he dropped dead?</p>
Did they list "Boldly going where no man had gone before" as one of his accomplishments?
Heroically exploring, probing, and poking to find out what is best for the country. A real inspiration to young people.
...who paved the way for Mark Foley?
Well, he boldly went where normal men won't go.
Gerry Studds, Gay Pioneer.
John Foley, Gay Pervert.
Exactly how do we draw the line between these categories? I wish the Washington ComPost would take the trouble to explain these subtle distinctions to us ignorant readers.
Nope...just a proud pedophile with no shame....IE:...a perfect domecratic rolemodel..
Oops, Mark Foley.
I confess I never heard of this guy until he was brought to our attention by the MSM.
His greatest claim to fame was that the front of his pants smelled just like the back of his pants.
All right, let me rip...
1. What the #@!! is a " "gay" pioneer "? In my life I met boys, men and men-whores. I think they mean the latter here.
2. Dims know they are an embarassment to society, gays know it too, that's why they're gay... but their mental illness and delusions make them think they are "well adjusted and thinking adults" with "good 'relationships' " and whatever else a pseudo-intellectual cowardly mind can come up with in terms of rationalizing.
3. Dims of the Washcompost are obviously once again recruiting for disaster and destruction... they talk about helping the poor, but all they do is LEND A HAND TO "GAYS" and the helpless uneducated idiots of our society in becoming even more short sighted and closed minded to their navel lifestyles.
That's awful! But awfully funny too!
Studds - an inspiring Demogaylick.
LMAO! - But Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww anyway.
I was going to say "blazing saddles that had never been blazed before."
The Studdsmeister "pioneered" the way for Foley. Isn't that special.
A small correction. Gerry Studds was not first elected to Congress as a homosexual, it was only later this proclivity was revealed, when he was 'outed' by revelations concerning the 17-year-old male page.
In fact, there may have been a number of homosexuals who have served in Congress over the years, and concealed it successfully. They did not promote any kind of homosexual agenda, that is for sure. But Studds was the first to have been RE-elected when his sexual preferences became known. Usually, and up to that time, homosexuality was pretty much a career-killer, in just about every line of business having to do with government. Still is, if you don't happen to be a liberal Dem'crat that the mainstream media wants to protect. Moral Turpitude, you know. Though that doctrine was pretty much abandoned during the 1970's.
I saw where he is survived by his husband . That has got to be one of the weirdest phrases in the English language.
Wonder if Stubbs was "the wife." Is Hara the widow or the widower.?
He was 69. Probably quite a few times. Maybe it was food poisoning, he got hold of a bad wiener.
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