The Mark Foley scandal is not about sexual orientation. It is about sexual deviancy and inappropriate exploitation of young people by a powerful politician. As such, I want to echo the comment of Ann Lowry, from her column published in the Star-Tribune.

The bottom line is that it does not matter that Mark Foley is gay.

Now I may disagree with her next conclusion (that the GOP leadership ignored evidence of a problem), but that statement is the one that really matters.

This is not a scandal about homosexuality – no matter how much a few on the Religious Right and many on the Homosexual Left want to turn it into an opportunity to purge Congress and of Republicans who are gay. The problem is that Foley is a sick freak with a serious psychological and moral problem who likely has broken laws and probably cannot be safely permitted to remain at large in society or on the Internet.

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