See, this is where I have a hard time with our side. If Mark Foley had been making the moves on your child (Freeper, please imagine yourself in this situation right now), you would want to take him out back and flay him. And rightly so. Pedophilia is not homosexuality as some here are trying to equate. I get it that the media over-hypes everything to the point of end-times mania, but we don’t have to act like we have to defend every little indiscretion.
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Is Foley a pedophile? Was he ever charged with a crime?
Alleged pedophile. Maybe catching him with the emails kept him from acting on their content. My point remains. I’m not sure where Mark Foley’s head is at today, but if he were caught emailing your teen with sexually explicit material, how would you react? Would you give him a pass?