It's time for gay Republicans to be more like Barney Frank and less like Mark Foley.
In the midst of an emerging scandal, Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) abruptly resigned from the House of Representatives on Friday. News leaked out this week that Foley had been sending suggestive emails and engaging in sexual online chat sessions with underage congressional pages. The story was made public by one of the former pages on an anti-Republican headhunter website CREW. It was then picked up and investigated by ABC News.…
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226 - Arch Conservative
Matthew Shepard was obvioulsy singled out and beaten because he was gay. I heard something awhile ago that the guys who beat him did so because he hit on them or something and it insulted their manhood/sexuality. This of course does not justify in any way what was done to MAtthew Shepard and hopefully karma will rear it's ugly head and these men will experience what they were so afraid of during thier time in prison.
That being said I would also just like to add that it is people like those who did this horrible thing to Mr. Shepard that make many gay activists and those who share their views deem all who disagree with them as the same caliber of person as those who killed Matthew. This is just not so. Most people who are against gay marriage do not actually have any desire to go out and either physically or in any other way harm gay people just because they are gay.
On the other hand many on the conservative side see some of the very flambouyant, effeminate, loud, in your face obnoxious characters that the gay community endorses as their spokesmen and role models and they think that all gay people are like this.
Obviously both sides have preconcieved notions of what the other side must be like but more often than not they're incorrect.
The whole foley thing shouldn't really focus on him being gay but rather that he was a 50 something year old man making sexual advances toward teenagers under his employment.
227 - M'Balz iz Hairi
Nancy. Your right. We need to take all the Republicans and put them on trains and send them to stalag for showers. After the final solution is complete we'll pull the Monte Cristos out of Monica Lewinski and puff on them while were all munching on carpet.
228 - Mistress La Spliffe
Dave - I think I more or less agree with your point but I'm wondering if gay GOPs have to grow some balls and come out of the closet, or if the American voting public, and especially (if I may take the liberty of calling you so) libertarians like you have to grow some balls and come out of the ideological closet far enough to insist on having real political choices at the federal level.
I mean, you can't be naive enough to think that closeted GOPers aren't closeted so that the party as a whole can reconcile, through ignoring, the huge split in its libertarian/really-not-libertarian base. How can you tolerate such an opportunistic travesty of an ideological stew?
229 - Lumpy
Now that this ridiculous 'crisis' has had time to mature I'd say we've learned that the entire GOP especially the leadership need to grow some cojones.
The left have the balls to lie and distort and misrepresent facts to push their elitist and bigoted agenda. It would be nice to see someone in the GOP brave enough to call them on it.
230 - Nancy
Lie about what, Lumpy? Seriously, what have the "Left" as you call them, been lying about? Are you saying they fabricated the Foley emails? Are you saying they somehow subverted all the Republican pages & congressmen who have since stated they knew about this quite some time ago, and advised Hastert or other party officals of same? I'm a little puzzled, because as far as I can tell, the Dems aren't even involved in this one; it's 100% Republican, and solely because the leadership refused to involve those Dems whom they could have involved, & thereby saved themselves some trouble. So please do be specific, and enlighten us all: what Leftist lies & plots are you talking about?
231 - Dave Nalle
Nancy, you don't actually read any news sources, do you?
Dave
232 - JustOneMan
Nancy gets all her news from Jet!
233 - JustOneMan
"Democrats - Tough on queers, weak on terror"
234 - RogerMDillon
Yeah, Nancy, don't you watch Fox and listen to Hannity? This was calculated because as Jon Stewart pointed out there could be a better time to point out a congresman was trolling for underage pages. And gasoline prices falling are just a coincidence, right?
235 - Nancy
No - falling gas prices are the same ploy BushCo pulled in 2004 just before the elections, so that all the non-thinking idiots out there would sell their votes to the GOP for cheap gas. Then as soon as the elections were over, Big Oil jacked the prices up again. Poor slobs who voted for Bush never knew what hit them.