October 03, 2006

What more could I say?

I'm not going to waste your time with too many of my thoughts about Mark Foley. Seems like everyone else on the planet is already taking care of that for me - in fact, you can't read a paper, switch on the TV, or boot up the internet without plunging headlong into untold thousands of words about the pedophile Congressman and the GOP's Catholic-church-like protection of one of their own.

Adding my furious contempt to the chorus of outrage would, well, offer very little at this point.

But do read blogger Bob Geiger's take on the sorry affair in today's Huffington Post, in which he justly attacks the Religious Right's deafening silence and hypocrisy. Geiger notes:
Odd, isn't it? The same people who can move their followers to boycott any company that believes gay people even have the right to exist, can't muster much outrage over one of their own preying on young boys and, more importantly, the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives ignoring it to save their political hides.
Read on.

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