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Skriven 2006-10-16 04:59:20 av John Hull (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 23892 av MIMI GALLANDT (1:275/311)
Ärende: A different Congressman &
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MIMI GALLANDT -> ALL wrote:
 MG> We're not hearing much about this Congress man's sexual relationship
 MG> with a page, could that be because he was a Democrat?

 MG> =========================

 MG> Studds, First Openly Gay Person Elected to Congress, Dead at 69

 MG> By JAY LINDSAY
 MG> Associated Press
 MG> Saturday, October 14, 2006; 11:52 AM



 MG> BOSTON (AP) -- Former U.S. Rep. Gerry Studds, the first openly gay
 MG> person elected to Congress, died early Saturday at Boston Medical
 MG> Center, several days after he collapsed while walking his dog, his
 MG> husband said.

 MG> Studds fell unconscious Oct. 3 because of what doctors later determined
 MG> was a blood clot in his lung, Dean Hara said.

 MG> Studds regained consciousness, remained in the hospital, and seemed to
 MG> be improving. He was scheduled to be transferred to a rehabilitation
 MG> center, but his condition deteriorated Friday and he died at about 1:30
 MG> a.m. Saturday, Hara said.

 MG> Hara, who married Studds shortly after gay marriage was legalized in
 MG> Massachusetts in 2004, said Studds was a pioneer who gave courage to gay
 MG> people everywhere by winning re-election after publicly acknowledging
 MG> his homosexuality.

 MG> "He gave people of his generation, or my generation, of future
 MG> generations, the courage to do whatever they wanted to do," he said.

 MG> Studds was first elected in 1972 and represented Cape Cod and the
 MG> Islands, New Bedford, and the South Shore for 12 Congressional terms. He
 MG> retired from Congress in 1997.

 MG> =========================================================
 MG> In 1983, Studds acknowledged his homosexuality after a former
 MG> Congressional page revealed he'd had a relationship with Studds a decade
 MG> earlier.

 MG> Studds was censured by the House for having sexual relations with the
 MG> page. He acknowledged having sex with a 17-year-old male page in 1973
 MG> and making sexual advances to two others and admitted an error in
 MG> judgment, but did not apologize.
 MG> ==============================================
 MG> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
 MG> dyn/content/article/2006/10/14/AR2006101400414_pf.html


We have brought it up, but it is being wilfully ignored by the left.  If they
don't acknowledge it, then they don't have to admit that their persecution of
Foley is hypocritical in the extreme.  Like I've said, this isn't about the
pages and their safety, its about covering your ass politically, and about
attacking one party for doing the same things that the other party has done,
but with no consequences.

You notice that Foley is long gone, yet the shitstorm continues.  The left will
do and say anything to be able to use this against the GOP. Foley quit, and
they can't hang him, so they've transferred their double standard attacks to
Speaker Hastert and others.  This hasn't fooled the voters though, from what
the polls are showing.  The whole affair has made little or no difference in
how voters will vote for their individual senators and reps.  For those races
that are in play, they were in play already anyway.  This only  added fuel to
the fire.

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