The Strangely Silent Religious Right
Bob Geiger has a few things to say about the strangely silent religious right.
If there’s one thing you have to concede to America’s Religious Right, it’s that these folks have an amazing media and public relations network and can issue press releases, get on television and radio and, when they really want to, mobilize their lemming-like flock faster than Jack Abramoff can bribe a Republican Congressman.
And yet here we sit, four days after it was revealed that Republican Congressman Mark Foley was using the Internet to go after teenaged boys, and all you can hear from our own little version of the Taliban is dead quiet and crickets chirping.
Odd, isn’t it? The same people who can move their followers to boycott any company that believes gay people even have the right to exist, can’t muster much outrage over one of their own preying on young boys and, more importantly, the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives ignoring it to save their political hides.
He then writes about how he checked the prominent Christian Right websites and found they were too busy fighting against abortion, fighting for hard-right judicial nominees, and fighting against gay marriage to say anything about Mark Foley or the disengaged leaders of the GOP.
And adds:
In fairness to the FRC, they did finally issue a press release from Tony Perkins late Monday, saying that he is “shocked by this spectacle of aberrant sexual behavior.” They then turned right around and subtly placed the blame on the gay community, saying that “this is the end result of a society that rejects sexual restraints in the name of diversity.”
…
They’ll go out of their way to rally their followers to keep gay people from getting married, boycott corporations acknowledging that right, demonize legislators and judges who dare keep Church away from State and even attack children’s-television characters.
But nary a word about a Republican Congressman, who is co-chairman of the Missing and Exploited Children’s Caucus, trolling for teen sex partners among Congressional pages, and being protected via a cover-up by the House Republican leadership.
Read the whole article here.
“this is the end result of a society that rejects sexual restraints in the name of diversity.�
So because this republican was gay, it was a foregone conclusion that he would also be a sexual predator? I wonder what causes heterosexual republicans to do it.