Griper Blade: Bashing Gays with a Republican Internet Predator

On the right, the Mark Foley page scandal has been a message problem. Ask one pundit about it and it's the Democrats' fault. Ask another and it's already been taken care of -- please move along, nothing to see here. The most ridiculous spin so far has been from Matt Drudge, who confidently 'reported' that the whole thing was just a prank.

One group who've been narrowing their message down to one unified point is the religious right. Gays are all child molesters, they say, what did you expect? By peddling this myth they hope to shift the blame from the GOP and onto the gay rights movement.

This message (and the dishonesty used to push it) is well displayed in an article titled The truth about 'gay' pedophilia in the rightwing WorldNetDaily. In it, writer Olivia St. John writes:

"Foley admits that he is a homosexual. Dare the question be asked whether homosexuals commit higher rates of molestation than heterosexuals do? Or are the thought police hard at work silencing the possible implications?"

Stop looking at the Foley page scandal, stop looking at the inaction by the House Leadership as an internet predator played his little cybersex games with the pages. The real story is that gays are evil and the mainstream media (for reasons left unexplained) are covering up a huge conspiracy...

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