Focus on Michael Gaynor, a lawyer from New York summed this one up well on renewamerica.us:
Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936), American writer and humorist, was right:"Politics ain't beanbag." The Mark Foley scandal demonstrates that yet again.
Mr. Foley, a Republican Congressman who rejected some fundamental values shared by the bulk of Republicans, promptly resigned as a Congressman (thereby avoiding expulsion); took the rehabilitation clinic route Congressman Patrick Kennedy, Democrat of Rhode Island, had followed (again) earlier this year; publicly announced that he is gay; and, in addition to claiming an alcohol problem, claimed that forty years ago he was molested for a couple of years by a clergyman he never saw fit to accuse before and whom he still has not named.
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At what point does gay become something other than a freak show?
LGBT community should give Foley a nice big thank you for his contribution to the betterment of their image. Perhaps he will win a lifetime achievement award from GLAAD.
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