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     Kommentar till en text av JOHN HULL
Ärende: A different Congressman &
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John Hull wrote:

JH>MIMI GALLANDT -> ALL wrote:
JH> MG> We're not hearing much about this Congress man's sexual
JH> MG> relationship with a page, could that be because he was a
JH> MG> Democrat?

JH> MG> =========================

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

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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

Too true.

L'Chaim

Mimi

In the beginning
the Word already was.

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