That link will be to the current column each week, but it’s always possible to visit each commentator’s archive on WSJ.com

That adult persons in positions of authority be subjected to official censure, criminal/civil prosecution, and/or any other recourse available as a result of committing any coercive, suggestive, or overtly sexual act with a younger person over whom they bear authority. That such acts shall include, but not be limited to, direct personal contact, electronic communications of any form, or messages delivered through an intermediate party. That such acts shall not distinguish between minors, or persons who have reached the locally legal age of majority for consent in such matters, nor distinguish between unwanted, or consensual acts.

In case anyone thinks I am defending Foley, not a chance. He is gone as he should be. Nor am I defending anyone who enabled his behavior to continue after coming to light.

The fact is, for the pages involved to have made these communications with him, they must have shared something of his interest. So far not one example of a page telling Foley to take a hike has been exposed. So, given that the age of consent in the D.C. area is 16 (an amazingly creepy fact on its own), that the “victims” appear to have been compliant in the behavior (unless they were asked to “punk” Foley for just such an occurence), and that there is no evidence that Foley has ever made physical contact with a minor, there isn’t an awful lot of “there” there. Except that he’s a creep, and he’s gone, and good riddance.

But if it was really that bad, then it should be viewed as that bad no matter who does it to whom, no matter where, and no matter what organization it refers to. If potentially predatory homosexuals taking an “overfriendly” interest in younger males is the sickest behavior imaginable, then don’t just SAY SO, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. I dare you.

Bone smuggler? Is that like “hide the salami”?

This is just another beautiful Fall/Spring love affair. The libs are just spewing all this hate speech. Where are all the gay rights groups screaming for justice? They want gay marriage but no bone smuggling on Capital Hill? Huh?

Hening on October 9, 2006 at 10:58 AM

Yes – Bone smuggling = hiding the salami.

possible predatory behavior

This language comes from the LA Times, but I’ve seen it in use elsewhere in connection with Foley. This is nonsense in anyone’s mouth, unless Foley was lying in wait to kill pages and eat them. But by all accounts, Foley didn’t want to eat Ganymede; he just wanted to drink Ganymede’s ambrosia.

This is just another beautiful Fall/Spring love affair. The libs are just spewing all this hate speech. Where are all the gay rights groups screaming for justice? They want gay marriage but no bone smuggling on Capital Hill? Huh?

The October surprises continue. Will they affect the vote of Evangelicals and Conservative women?……

More pages…..
“Another Republican congressman knew of disgraced former representative Mark Foley’s inappropriate Internet exchanges as far back as 2000 and personally confronted Foley about his communications.
A spokeswoman for Rep. J…

There’s many more important things to consider…

*SCROLL FOR UPDATES* Much of this LA Times exclusive I’m not going to excerpt because it’s too gross, but you can read it here if you want to. A former House page says he had sex with then-Rep. Mark Foley……

He’s principled about these things. Sure, he’ll tell a 17-year-old he’d like to slip his boxers off. But actually slip his boxers off?

I’m the first to say I don’t believe in homosexuality, and don’t even like using that word because it legitimizes it, and I’m also the first to say Foley is a sicko and rightfully out of Congress… But I do have to say, AP, that that opening paragraph is rather misleading, no? He didn’t “slip the boxers” off of a 17 year old (to our knowledge), he played bone smuggler with a misguided 21-year-old.

I know your intention wasn’t to mislead, but rather write a funny opening to a post on the recent news that Foley did get down with a former page, but had I not blogged this early this morning and was skimming posts on my favorite blogs, I might have seen that and thought Foley did have sex with a 17 year old page.

Americans are tired of the war, tired of watching illegal aliens race across our unguarded borders, tired of high energy costs, tired of wasteful Washington spending, and tired of story after story of political corruption and misbehavior.

So he thinks conservatives are now going to vote Democratic because of these issues? Vote for Democrats to secure the border, control spending, and go after terrorists because one congressman had an affair with a 21-year-old man? What a laugh! The fact that Foley is still a story with the MSM shows that the Dems are the homophobic party, not the Republicans.

Why is this even a story? The dude was 21! Gay Pride!

Agree. Why do DEM-MSM work for them?
There’s plenty of time left for the capitulation-minded.

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