Comments on: Foley Claims He Was Molested by Priest as a Teen

By: Bithead

Bithead — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:05:33 +0000

Personally, my take is that it's going to be interesting to watch the Democrats reaction to all of this. It will be interesting to see, if they accept this as a legitimate illness, or whether they charge that he was just trying to cover up his actions under a guise of alcoholism.

And I wonder what the ghost of Mary Jo Kopekne would say, if they didn't accept it as such.

By: legion

legion — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:57:31 +0000

Rodney:
Or Rush Limbaugh :-)

By: aTypical Joe: A gay New Yorker living in the rural south.

aTypical Joe: A gay New Yorker living in the rural south. — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 13:30:17 +0000

The blame game: a round-up... Golly, who's to blame? Democrats! Of course. NGLTF's Matt Foreman says don't blame gays. FRC says blame gays. Boehner blames Hastert. Timeline here. Sean Hannity blames Clinton. Tristero says, don't blame Clinton. It's Al Gore's fault. He invente...

By: Rodney Dill

Rodney Dill — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:46:51 +0000

Foley still needs to be charged.

Rehab, claiming victimization, declaring you're gay, declaring alcoholism only get you a free pass if you're a liberal.

By: Richard Gardner

Richard Gardner — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 06:12:12 +0000

Similar waffling worked for the country star Ty Herndon a decade ago. I had to go down to my CD collection to remember which country star it was. Damage Control! In 5 years Foley will be a talking head on CNN, a senior statesman.

Foley was the most know closeted Republican gay in DC, The Blade covered him years ago. #2 is Ken Mehlman, shock suprise. And all this outing is I thing due to Mike Rogers of blogactive.com, who thinks Republicans are EVIL, and minorities and gays must be Democrats, or they must be brought down. This is all politics.

The Republican Party has a serious split between the classic conservative portion (Goldwater) and the moral conservatives ~~bigots~~ - just as the Democratic Party isn't the Progressive wing.

By: Forgotten Beatitudes » Blog Archive » Oh my God, it’s like Christmas in October.

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 03:53:50 +0000

[...] ADDITION: Michael over at Gay Orbit has a link to the story where Foley has now come out, officially, and claims to have been sexually abused by a Catholic priest as a child. Seriously, everytime I see another report on this, I keep hearing that boinka-boinka sound a cartoon character makes just after they’ve stepped on a banana peel and are flailing their arms, trying to stay balanced. [...]

By: Professor Chaos

Professor Chaos — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 03:23:55 +0000

The saddest part of this story is that South Park predicted it about two years ago in the episode when Cartman tells the others that if they claim to have been "molestered" then their parents will get all scared and let them do what ever they want.

I'll send a link if I can find it on You Tube ...

By: The Florida Masochist

The Florida Masochist — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 01:23:43 +0000

Bluff...

If Foley wants to truly 'recover', name the priest. For if the man is alive, other boys are out there at the risk of being molested. If the priest is dead, the truth is told. To do otherwise, Foley will not have completed his recovery....

By: jpe

jpe — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 01:03:33 +0000

The response betrays the distinct homophobia among certain elements of the right (obviously, lots [and almost certainly most....I hope] of the right is excepted): the hypothesis running through this is still blatantly homophobic. It relies on the notion that gays are not quite human, and therefore not capable of the same kinds of moral reasoning that you and I are capable of. It's still a disease, and impairs the moral sensibility.

This is all the more galling since it's a creepy, misguided ploy for sympathy.

By: Cernig

Cernig — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:11:21 +0000

Is this meant to excuse his breach of his position of trust?

If so, it doesn't fly for me.

There are huge numbers of people in the world who were abused as kids who then didn't

By: Steve Verdon

Steve Verdon — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 23:28:24 +0000

Dang it, you beat me by 5 minutes.