Shorter Tony Perkins: Blame the Gay
As Attytood says, "No, not the 'Psycho' Tony Perkins...well, not exactly"
No, Mother! He's a nice Congressman!Attytood: Family Research Council: Blame "the gay" for Foleygate
Tonight, the FRC sends us this email:Technorati Tags: Foley, FRC, Tony Perkins, GOP, bastardsDemocrats seeking to exploit the resignation of Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) are right to criticize the slow response of Republican congressional leaders to his communications with male pages. But neither party seems likely to address the real issue, which is the link between homosexuality and child sexual abuse. Foley, an unmarried 52-year-old representative, had always refused to answer questions about his sexual orientation. Now that his emails and messages to teenage male pages have been revealed, it appears clear that Foley is a homosexual with a particular attraction to underage boys. While pro-homosexual activists like to claim that pedophilia is a completely distinct orientation from homosexuality, evidence shows a disproportionate overlap between the two. Although almost all child molesters are male and less than 3% of men are homosexual, about a third of all child sex abuse cases involve men molesting boys--and in one study, 86% of such men identified themselves as homosexual or bisexual. Ignoring this reality got the Catholic Church into trouble over abusive priests, and now it is doing the same to the House GOP leadership. They discounted or downplayed earlier reports concerning Foley's behavior--probably because they did not want to appear "homophobic." The Foley scandal shows what happens when political correctness is put ahead of protecting children.Frankly, we're trying to think of one thing that the GOP leadership in D.C. has ever done to not appear "homophobic" -- we'll do an update if we think of one. In the meantime, we can tell you that the scandal here is not one of political correctness, but political self-preservation run amok. Neither party has a corner on morality when it comes to the individual sins of its members; but the Republicans running the show in Congress went to great lengths to keep the lid on the Foley scandal, to save a safe seat in a tough election, and maybe to have some, ahem, "leverage" on Foley on close votes.
