Change For A Nickel

I am highly disturbed by what is going on in the media. The past couple of weeks we have been inundated by the Foley scandal. Yet another representative caught playing on the kiddie side of the pool. What I have found so disturbing is the rhetoric coming from the Republicans. So this scum bag said he is gay. So what? The justification from the Hastert office for not doing more was they didn’t want to come across as anti-gay. In the mean time Foley is loose on the Hill and no page boy is safe. What?!? How I have been interpreting this: The Republicans are saying gays and pedophiles are one in the same. I have heard this type of connection referenced on more than one occasion and frankly it sickens me. This is the kind of thing that can not go unchecked. Mark Foley is a dirty old man that should be prosecuted if he touched a child. Period. I don’t give a rat’s ass if he is gay or straight. But I do care how people will mistakenly make the wrong assumptions when they hear rhetoric of this type.

We already know how the leadership of this Congress feels about queers. We have a war in Iraq and Afghanistan, genocide in Darfur, health care issues in this country and what was the important legislation the 109th Congress put at the top of their agenda last year? The protection of marriage act?! And now some creepy pedophile who happens to be gay comes along and the spin doctors are at work saying queer=pedophile. Ugh! It’s enough to make you scream!!