Religious Right given "Gay Republican list". Uh oh!

Immediately after the Mark Foley scandal broke, some anti-Republican gay-rights activists composed a memo containing the names of closeted gay Republican Congressional staffers and sent it to leading Christian-right advocacy groups. The founder and chairman of one of those groups, the Rev. Don Wildmon of the American Family Association, told me he has received that memo, which he referred to simply as "The List." Based on The List's contents, Wildmon is convinced that a secretive gay "clique" boring within the Republican-controlled Congress is responsible for covering up Foley's sexual predation toward teenage male House pages. Moreover, Wildmon calls on the Republican Party leadership to promptly purge the "subversive" gay staffers.

Here let me try this again. Homosexuals are not pedophiles! Some pedophiles might have either homosexual or heterosexual tendencies, but their sickness is that they are sexually attracted to children, not which adult gender they are attracted to.

If some staffers did cover for Foley then they should lose their jobs. But that should have nothing to do with their sexual orientation.

But by the same token if Hastert is proven to have known and done nothing about Foley's predilection toward young men he should be packing his shit and getting out. I am just looking for fairness here.