For a politician like Foley, who lives as a gay man and makes very little effort to hide it while supporting an anti-gay president and hateful religious zealots who harm the gay community, and then accuses democrats of perpetrating a smear campaign because somebody in the press printed facts about his personal life...that sounds like a bit of hypocrisy to me.... -- Welcome To The Crzy House

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Date Posted: 18:40:25 05/28/03 Wed
Author: Drew Greyfox
Subject: For a politician like Foley, who lives as a gay man and makes very little effort to hide it while supporting an anti-gay president and hateful religious zealots who harm the gay community, and then accuses democrats of perpetrating a smear campaign because somebody in the press printed facts about his personal life...that sounds like a bit of hypocrisy to me....
In reply to: Patriot 's message, "But does it really matter whether anyone "approves" of a person or "likes" the person? Does disliking someone give others the right to ruin their lives? EVERYONE should have the right to decide for themselves whether they want to come out or not. I think it only shows how hypocritical the Democrat party can be when it comes to "gay rights."" on 14:01:58 05/28/03 Wed

And it's already been said, most of the smearing has come from the GOP itself, which proclaims itself to be a party of inclusion. The democratic party has not done anything to paint Foley in a negative light because he is gay. Just the opposite. Foley himself seems to take the gay story as an insult, as if being gay is something to be ashamed of. Whether he is gay or not, or wants to come out or not is far less important to me then his reaction to this story.

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