Foley Continued: Part of DCCC Orchestrated Campaign

Editor's Note: The unfortunate side of politics is this game of gotcha that people play in order to tear down the other. Yet while Mr. Rogers, who you will read about in this story, who is on a campaign to "out" gay Republicans on Capitol Hill, gets away with this crusade to smear and tarnish, if conservatives were doing the same, the NY Times and Washington Post would be all over it. In fact, truth be told, their newsrooms are cheering on his efforts. And they lecture the rest of us on integrity and hypocrisy!

ON CAPITOL HILL
'Gay' activist held
info about Foley
During campaign to 'out' lawmakers
said story would break before election

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Posted: October 3, 2006
5:00 p.m. Eastern



© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com


Former Rep. Mark Foley
A radical activist on a mission to "out" conservative homosexual lawmakers and Capitol Hill staffers held on to information about Rep. Mark Foley's relationships with underage male pages, suggesting the story would break at the time of mid-term elections.

Blogger Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit points to a campaign by activist Mike Rogers who had Foley on a "target list" of 20 people and shared the information with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Foley abruptly resigned Friday as reports surfaced of inappropriate e-mails with a male page. Later, ABC News released online instant messages of more salacious exchanges. Foley has issued a statement saying he checked himself into an alcohol rehabilitation program at an undisclosed location.

In July 2004, the homosexual newspaper Washington Blade reported Rogers and another activist, John Aravosis, were "loosely heading an ongoing outing campaign on the Hill" ahead of the Senate vote on the Federal Marriage Amendment, which would bar same-sex marriage.

Among nearly 20 names on the "target list" provided to the Blade were Foley and Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland.

The paper said a spokesman for Foley declined to comment after Aravosis asserted on his website the previous week that Foley is "gay."

"Both members of Congress have long been the subject of rumors about their sexual orientation," the paper said.

Rogers – in a March 4, 2005, post on his website BlogActive.com – declared Foley to be "gay" and, therefore, a hypocrite for voting for legislation against the homosexual agenda. The post said: "MARK FOLEY WILL BE EXPOSED FOR THE HYPOCRITE HE IS THROUGH A MAIL AND INTERNET CAMPAIGN THAT WILL REACH INTO EVERY HOME IN HIS DISTRICT."

More than a year ago, in a March 2005 post, Rogers said he had thought hard about what kind of action to take and said that while none would be taken at the moment, "When we get closer to the mid-term elections, I am sure more will surface."

Rogers did his own investigation of Foley, writing that through his recorded discussions with current and former staff members he learned how the congressman "hit on" young men at the Republican convention.

In a post Sunday, Rogers wrote about his attempt to communicate with Democrat officials, saying "the good news is that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is finally getting it."

Rogers said that prior to the Foley story breaking Friday, he called the DCCC's director of communications, Bill Burton, to let him know that the information about Foley – and another case – were "coming down the pike."

Burton had promised to have someone e-mail or return Rogers' call but apparently didn't follow though. Now, however, since the story broke Friday, said Rogers, "I am glad he followed up on my call and was ready on Friday to come out of the gate running."

Rogers added: "The bad new is they are still not paying enough attention. ... There are others within reach. ... If the Democrats would only fight half as hard as the Republicans."

Rogers said he posted comments about Foley on the DCCC website, but they were deleted.

In another post, Rogers admitted he had possession of the lurid Foley e-mails before they were posted on the Web.


"As people know, it's not always possible for me to disclose my role in some of the activities.
I can say this. I had the emails before they were on the net. Additionally, I had the additional emails, written by the page to a friend. The story was being written by a number of outlets and I provided additional information to reporters involved in the breaking of this story.

Was (I) the central figure in reporting on Foley’s latest scandal? Never said I was. Was my work on the case important to helping make sure it came out before the election? Yes.

Did I have any idea that the GOP leadership was engaged in a cover-up? Nope. Do I love the fact that they are trying to spin this as "naughty emails?" Yup. because it shows how out of (touch) they are about queer closet cases."

Aravosis, in his AmericaBlog, shows his anger at Foley for keeping his homosexuality hidden while backing President Bush, calling the congressman "our latest closeted gay hypocrite."

Aravosis said Foley made the target list for putting politics ahead of his own community by "whoring for an anti-gay president."

Foley, who at the time was running for the Senate, responded to the "outing" by Aravosis by holding a telephone press conference with Florida media in which he called the discussion about his sexual orientation "revolting." He refused to answer any questions about the charge and later abandoned his bid for the Senate, citing concerns over his father's health.

Blogger Hoft believes, however, Foley dropped out of the Senate race "because of pressure by Aravosis and the radical gay movement to make his life hell for being a closeted homosexual."

Foley Story: Emperor Has No Clothes

Editor's Note: The Foley resignation represents a much deeper problem, going beyond the safety of Congressional pages, in our society. It shows that we are willing to ignore facts concerning personal shortcomings of elected officials, especially in the realm of sexual morality, if it is "politically incorrect" to draw reasonable conclusions about what risks we take in the name of "tolerance". Rep. Foley represents those risks, a risk the Boy Scouts, for example, refuses to take despite the public pressures to change their policy around adult homosexuals and boys. It seems members of Congress in charge of keeping those in their page program safe sacrificed that safety in the name of "tolerating" Rep. Foley's obvious deviant tendencies that he couldn't control. We must begin to accept the link between homosexuality in men and the sexual abuse of young boys and address this dark problem by shining the light of day on it.


Conservative Group Examines 'Real Issue' in Foley Case
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
October 03, 2006

(CNSNews.com) - "When a 16-year-old boy is not safe from sexual solicitation from an elected representative of the people, we should question the moral direction of our nation," a conservative advocacy group said on Monday.

The group also said Foley's behavior raises the "real issue" of homosexuality and child abuse.

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins noted that so many people -- Republicans and Democrats -- are "shocked" by former Rep. Mark Foley's sexually explicit instant messages to a teenage boy -- a House page at the time.

But we shouldn't be shocked, Perkins said: "This is the end result of a society that rejects sexual restraints in the name of diversity. If our children aren't safe in the halls of Congress, where are they safe? Maybe it's time to question: when is tolerance just an excuse for permissiveness?"

Perkins said both political parties need to be more serious about protecting children from sexual predators. "We need public policy in our country that protects marriage, respects parental authority and aggressively polices boundaries around our children," he said.

Perkins also questioned what he calls the "real issue" in the Foley case - the link between homosexuality and child abuse.

Perkins noted that Foley - an unmarried 52-year-old representative - has always refused to answer questions about his sexual orientation, but the release of Foley's messages to teenage male pages now makes it clear that "Foley is a homosexual with a particular attraction to underage boys."

"While pro-homosexual activists like to claim that pedophilia is a completely distinct orientation from homosexuality, evidence shows a disproportionate overlap between the two," Perkins said.

"Although almost all child molesters are male and less than 3 percent of men are homosexual, about a third of all child sex abuse cases involve men molesting boys -- and in one study, 86% of such men identified themselves as homosexual or bisexual," Foley said.

"Ignoring this reality got the Catholic Church into trouble over abusive priests, and now it is doing the same to the House GOP leadership. They discounted or downplayed earlier reports concerning Foley's behavior -- probably because they did not want to appear 'homophobic.'

"The Foley scandal shows what happens when political correctness is put ahead of protecting children," Perkins said.

Homosexual advocacy groups have not had much to say about Foley's conduct. The Miami Herald quoted Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, as saying, "It's irrelevant if he (Foley) is gay or not."

The newspaper said the Human Rights Campaign refused to discuss Foley's resignation.

Neither group addresses the Foley case on their websites.