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The political news from Washington has become an absolute
epicurean delight. If I dine more sumptuously on the Foley
Follies I shall be in danger of becoming crapulent. Of course,
we need not dwell on the Hon. Mark Foley. Days ago this
pathetico became only a peripheral figure in this delightful
story.

Revolve this in your mind. The Democratic Party, that is to say
the party of homosexual rights and homosexual marriage, is
hounding the Republican Party, the party of family values, for
extending due process to one of its own, Mr. Foley, a homosexual
Republican congressman, once a Democrat and founder of south
central Florida’s Lettuce Patch Restaurant. Parents, even
vegetarian parents, will want to steer their young as far away
as possible from that cutely named restaurant.

Precisely what were the Republicans to do about the Hon. Foley?
On this, the Democrats are unclear once their indignant oaths
fall silent. Apparently the dull House Speaker Dennis Hastert
was supposed to have been monitoring his colleagues on the Hill
and leap to action at the first sign one was sending dirty
messages to pages — though it is only slowly becoming known even
by us readers of the vigilant American press who those pages
are, how old they were and whether they were baiting Mr. Foley
for sport.

The Democrats have several other problems. They are the party
that let the Hon. Gerry Studds remain in Congress for more than
a decade after he seduced a male page with booze. About the time
he was caught, a Republican congressman from the Midwest was
accused of seducing a female page. The Republican was not
renominated. Then there is the Hon. Barney Frank, a beacon of
virtue and intelligence in the House to this day. It was
discovered some years back that a homosexual friend of his ran a
house of ill-repute out of Mr. Frank’s Washington apartment.
What did the Democrats do about these indiscretions?

Or for that matter, what will they do about the discoveries of
Jeffrey Lord? Writing in Spectator.org, Mr. Lord reports on
California’s Rep. Nancy Pelosi marching in a 2001 gay pride
parade in San Francisco. Today Mrs. Pelosi sounds like this:
“Republican leaders admitted to knowing about Mr. Foley’s
abhorrent behavior for six months to a year and failed to
protect children in their trust.” However, according to Mr.
Lord, in that 2001 gay pride parade who was striding a mere
three spots away from Mrs. Pelosi but Harry Hay, founder of “The
Mattachine Society,” and a strong advocate of man/boy love.

Upon Hay’s death in 2002, the North American Man/Boy Love
Association ran on its Web site several of his marmoreal
declarations, one being, “Because if the parents and friends of
gays are truly friends of gays, they should know from their gay
kids that the relationship with an older man is precisely what
13-, 14-, and 15-year-old kids need more than anything else in
the world.” Frankly I would have suggested shooting hoops is
important too, but silly old me.

Now I think we can all agree that sending dirty e-mails to pages
whether 16, 18 or whatever ages is reprehensible and if done at
taxpayers’ expense still more reprehensible. I have not seen the
dirty e-mails but I am told some are as dirty as Bill Clinton’s
phone sex, which, come to think of it, is another sex scandal
our Democratic friends patiently indulged.

Yet if an election on national defense in time of war, homeland
security, the prosecution of terrorists, and a healthy economy
is to turn on the Republican leadership’s treating Mr. Foley the
way the Democratic leadership treated Mr. Studds and Mr. Frank,
I think we are all being a bit frivolous.

While on the subject of the Republican leadership, may I ask why
the leadership has not yet made an issue of the abovementioned
instances of Democratic hypocrisy regarding sexual misbehavior?
They seem pretty obvious.

Speaker Hastert has been as slow to address the Democrats’
abysmal failure to maintain standards on Capitol Hill as he was
in acting on Mr. Foley. Actually, he has been as slow to address
this hypocrisy as Mrs. Pelosi has been to apologize for
appearing with Hay in that gay pride parade.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/oct/12/20061012-092913-
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