[asterisk-biz] Re: OT: Gore Still Ahead

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 12:03:28AM -0400, Matthew Rubenstein wrote:
> 	Are you looking for ways to excuse the child molesting Foley did just
> because he continued carrying on after the boys were legally men?

Let's be *perfectly clear* here, shall we?

"Talking dirty" to them does not constitute "child molestation" under
any construction of anyone's law that I'm aware of.

And 16 isn't exactly a child, either.

> 	What kind of depraved child molester protector are you? Other than
> "Republican" - that much is so obvious that it's redundant. Now tell us
> that I shouldn't go so hard on Foley, because it's not his fault that
> god made him gay.

You can go as hard on Foley as you like.  I hope he takes the whole,
sordid, hypocritical Republican establishment down with him.  just lets
be hard on him for the right reasons: he owed a duty to his
constituency not to get embroiled in a scandal, and he owed a duty to
those pages *specifically*, because he was or had been in a position of
direct power and control over them.  He failed in those duties.

Would this have been less likely to have happened had he been out about
his preference?  (For men, I mean, not for boys.)  Yeah, probably.

Is it society's fault that he felt he needed to be even partially in
the closet?  Yes? 

Am *I* gay?  No.  

Do I want people to confuse me for Donald Rumsfeld?  Not even on your
birthday.  :-)

You can tell the repubs apart from the dems because, by and large, the
dems utilise the tools of rational argument, and are calm and cool, and
the repubs appeal to emotion, fear, and (dare we say this) terror.

Not all of either side, certainly, but a statistically significant
majority.

Alas, demagoguery works better with the electorate than pedagogy.

Cheers,
-- jra
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