More Depravity in High Places
by Jeff Davis
On September 19th I wrote a column on the revolting autobiography of former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey, who detailed his life as a closeted homosexual in the corridors of American political power. McGreevey admitted that in his considerable experience, the entire American governing class was riddled with perversion, and I asked a rhetorical question: “how many more highly placed people in government and the corporate world are secret sodomites and dykes? How many of these perverts do we have ruling us?”
Well, speak of the devil. According to an ABC news article, “The Florida Department of Law Enforcement said it’s examining whether former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley’s communications with teenage congressional pages violated state law.” The page in question was a sixteen year-old boy whom Foley had been pelting with “sexually suggestive” e-mails.
Congressman Mark Foley is now rushing into rehab as if molesting teenage boys is a by-product of alcohol abuse. One can practically hear Foley exclaim “Feel sorry for me. I have a disease –alcoholism. It isn’t my fault.” Well, guess what Mr. Foley, being a pedophile IS YOUR FAULT. There is no excuse for behavior so depraved, that even our thoroughly corrupt society still imprisons people for it. (more…)