How do you know his base consists of "Rightwing evangelical Christians"?
He's a Republican ain't he?
So the age of consent is higher for homosexuals? Dang girl. Where do you get your information? Geeze Louise.
In some jurisdictions it is.
Homosexuality isn't illegal anywhere in this country. The Supreme Court overturned Bowers v. Hardwick (the decision that upheld sodomy laws). Bad decision IMO, but sodomy laws are unconstitutional according to the Supremes.
Sexual harassment??? The kid didn't sound like he was an unwilling participant to me. The conduct has to be unwelcome. The kid may have told people he was freaked out, but if those transcripts are accurate then the conduct sure sounded like something the kid enjoyed, which would mean it was not sexual harassment.[/glow]
Actually Beach Bum, that transcript was from a conversation
Congressman Mark Foley had with another page.
When Foley's conduct came under scrutiny, there was a flurry of emails and instant message chat transcripts sent in by other congressional pages subjected to the same thing.
As to your comment as to
"sure sounded like something the kid enjoyed, which would mean it was not sexual harassment." ...don't be so quick to judge. That's the blaming the victim approach. In a situation like that, you cannot draw the conclusion that the kid enjoyed it, and therefore it was not sexual harassment. I doubt he would have either saved the chat, or turned it in to authorites who clearly failed to protect him or any of the other pages being subjected to this. We are talking about a CONGRESSMAN ...and a child. Are you telling me a child has the wherewithal to not be intimidated in the face of such unwanted attention. Furthermore, if you scrutinize the transcript, you will see this particular kid makes (what I believe to be) an effort to kill Foley's buzz. He tells him to
"hang on cause my Mom is calling me." Foley responds with
"I hope she didn't see anything". Is that the response of a man who thinks he's doing nothing wrong?
This is the kind of misinformation people spread when they are blinded by partisanship. Stop trying to make this a Republican/Democrat issue. It is just about a sleazy, immoral man who unfortunately was a member of Congress.
This is the kind of information people disseminate when they want justice done, and they want the public to understand what kind of deceiptfulness is being perpetrated on them by those in office throughout their land. People who have utterly failed to live up to their responsibilities as elected officials. People wiiling to turn a blind eye to reality, suppress truth, live in a state of denial, even if it means allowing the continued victimization of children, in order to keep their hold on power.
This is more than a sleazy, immoral man who unfortunately was a member of Congress. This was a sleazy, immoral man, who was unfortunately a member of Congress, AS WELL AS
THE CO-CHAIR OF THE CONGRESSIONAL CAUCUS ON MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN who was allowed to continue both in his role as co-chair, house representative, and harasser of young pages, by the
house majority leader Rep. John Boehner (Ohio). There was no justice for this boy at their hands, or for the other house pages that were harassed. Instead they chose AlGebra's stated preferred method of dealing with inculpatory evidence of criminal conduct: by suppressing the information.
This book and the truths contains therein are not going away. We have seen the MO of this administration all too well. They circle their wagons, and galvanize their power, with an all too easily predictable MO. They can't spin this one tho. The only hope they have is to divert attention away. You should not only be hopping mad, you oughtta be scared shitless. Another false flag attack would not surprise me in the least. These are desperate psycopaths.
