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Not blow jobs or gay sex or pedophilia.

You know, it worries me the way these get equated in political discourse. Underage sex is not the same as pedophile abuse is not the same as consensual oral sex with an adult is not the same as gay sex. Two of these are crimes, one is a crime and an illness and two are legal acts between consenting adults that have no place in politics unless the participants are being hypocritical by pushing an anti-gay or moral line.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Mon Oct 2nd, 2006 at 08:24:55 AM EST
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I agree. I wasn't equating them. The Christian right might equate them, but I fear they get more outraged over the blow jobs and gay sex than the pedophilia. I was simply saying that no one seems to pay attention until sex is involved and then it's like a field day at the gallows. Either way, we impeached a perfectly decent President for a blow job and re-elected a dictator who is intent on destroying the world. We have a Republican party that has repeatedly defied the Constitution, and they're going down for being/covering up for sexual predators. Of course everyone involved in this Foley scandal should be stripped of their duties and brought before a judge and jury. I'm just dissapointed that this is how we "win."

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire

by p------- on Mon Oct 2nd, 2006 at 08:51:48 AM EST
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I'm not sure even a majority of the Christian Right would equate them.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Mon Oct 2nd, 2006 at 03:17:04 PM EST
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I don't actually mean a thoughtful conflation, just the way I've seen them linked together several times with regard to the current scandal.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Mon Oct 2nd, 2006 at 03:22:08 PM EST
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Oh, I know. I was just throwing the comment out there. There was a reason. (I promise.) I just can't remember what it was -- no doubt my reward for smoking too much dope in high school. I completely agree, though. They mentioned in the same breath and, really, are by no stretch of the imagination morally equivalent.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Mon Oct 2nd, 2006 at 03:24:36 PM EST
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