As most of you know by now, Rep. Mark Foley, resigned Friday after the release of emails and instant messages he sent to an underage congressional page. Foley was the head of the Missing and Exploited Children Caucus, a man of “deep Catholic faith,” and someone who had received an 84% approval rating from the Christian Coalition in 2004, and a 69% from the Family Research Council in 2005 — his rating was brought down due to his missing a number of crucial votes, though still voting with the religious right on key issues like the Schiavo debacle.
The question that needs to be answered now is, where is the outrage from the religious right? Focus on the Family derides those who support a woman’s right to choose as “predators” and those who seek to expand tolerance to gay and lesbian Americans as “anti-family”. The Family Research Council claims that homosexual adoption puts children at risk, despite contradictory findings by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
On Friday, after the Foley debacle erupted, the Family Research Council’s daily email alert lacked any mention of Foley and instead praised Sen. Frist for puting forth a bill that would erode a woman’s right to control her own body. The religious right believes they are justified in labeling these policies anti-family and anti-children without evidence that they actually harm children — and in some cases despite evidence that there is definitively no harm — however the emergence of a real predator posing a real threat to children, draws silence.
It's early still -- the story broke late friday -- but if some big name Bible banger doesn't show up on CNN, FOX, or MSNBC monday, you'll know for sure they're ignoring this.
They never get too bent out of shape over hypocrites in their midst, mostly because so many of them are hypocrites themselves. Scratch a Biblethumper and you find a closeted and self-loathing gay, a porn addict, a client of prostitutes, or -- as was the case of Jim Bakker -- even a rapist.
It wouldn't surprise me a bit if the big story on Agape Press tomorrow is that some teacher somewhere mentioned Darwin.
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