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(CNSNews.com) - Homosexual activist Mike Rogers said he will reveal the identities of homosexual Republicans on Capitol Hill each day "for hypocritically opposing gay rights for political reasons when they themselves are gay." But according to Rogers, who runs a web log called BlogActive.com, he's "reporting on hypocrisy," not "outing them." "The right wing of this country is so out of control beating up gay people," Rogers told Cybercast News Service on Tuesday. Rogers named two congressional staffers who he believes had "a vested interest in protecting closeted men like former Republican Congressman Mark Foley so the majority can remain...

WASHINGTON - Rank-and-file Republicans on Sunday sought to mount a public defense of Speaker Dennis Hastert over the page sex scandal that threatens their congressional control one month before the elections. But a House GOP leader under fire for his handling of the scandal involving former Rep. Mark Foley canceled a national broadcast appearance, and one Republican lawmaker said those who participated in a cover-up would have to resign. "Anybody that hindered this in any kind of way, tried to step in the way of hiding this, covering it up, is going to have to step down. Whoever that is,"...

WASHINGTON -- The week-old congressional page sex scandal could have a decisive effect on several key political campaigns across the country and prove crucial to Democratic hopes of gaining control of the House of Representatives in November. Polls indicate that the scandal, triggered by the publication of sexually explicit messages that former Florida Republican Rep. Mark Foley sent to ex-pages, hasn't created a voter backlash against Republicans nationally. But in four House districts currently held by Republicans the issue could prove decisive, political analysts said, because of the candidates' connections to Foley or to child protection issues: • Foley's open...

Some conservatives link child sex abuse to sexual orientation - Some conservatives have reacted to former Rep. Mark Foley's sexual messages to teenage boys and announcement he is gay by suggesting that homosexuals are more likely to molest children, a link that psychiatric groups say has no basis in fact. Yet the stereotype seems to be sticking, repeated in the conservative and mainstream media. A columnist for the Wall Street Journal suggested that homosexuality exists on a continuum stretching from "just another gay guy" to "a compulsive, predatory sex offender." Jay Leno recently quipped that GOP now stands for "Gay...

Oct. 2, 2006, 11:09PM Washington Times wants Hastert to resign © 2006 The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Responding to the scandal over former Rep. Mark Foley's suggestive messages to teenage boys, the editorial board of The Washington Times called for House Speaker Dennis Hastert to step down. "House Speaker Dennis Hastert must do the only right thing, and resign his speakership at once," said the lead editorial posted Monday night on the Times Web site. The Times, one of the most reliably conservative voices in the nation's capital, joined some Democrats in criticizing Hastert, R-Ill., for not doing enough to...

LIKE THE Catholic church's sex abuse scandal, the Rep. Mark Foley scandal is one born of a deeper cultural problem than is first apparent. Foley, it is now clear, was well-known in Washington as someone who had a keen sexual interest in boys -- and who acted on that interest. Even if House Speaker Dennis Hastert did not know about Foley's sexually explicit Internet chats with underage pages until they were reported by ABC News, as he claims, it is hard to believe that he did not know about Foley's reputation as a man with a taste for underage males...