AmericaBlog rightly turns the tables and asks why conservative, so-called "Christians" have a predilection for pederasty:
It's no secret that all five of the House Republican members of Congress accused of covering up the Mark Foley congressional page child predator scandal are Christians. And most of them, not surprisingly, are conservatives.
In these dire times for America's youth one must ask: Are conservative Christians genetically pre-disposed towards coddling pedophiles?
It may sound like bigotry, but facts are facts. These conservative Christian men all knew a long time ago about Foley's "overly friendly" attempts to befriend young children. They all had a chance to stop Foley before he sinned again, and they didn't. They're all Republicans. And they're all Christians.
I suspect a bit of sarcasm (just a bit?), particularly given the article that inspired the post. However, between that, Billmon's reflections on the Lavender Bund...and the ever-insane rantings of Pat Buchanan (last night I was listening to the Joe Scarborough show while cooking dinner--couldn't get to the remote after watching Countdown--and old Pitchfork Pat couldn't resist. The day previous, he was rehashing the social-deviant line, substituting sexual preference for race; yesterday, he was accusing someone in the Democratic party, I forget who, of "having marched in a parade with members of NAMBLA," and, in case we didn't get the smear, he proceeded to instruct as to what the acronym stood for)...well, sorry to tangent, but anyway...when you've got the wingnuts charging forward like so many bugs to a windshield, I think it might well be appropriate to ask--LOUDLY--why pederasty/pedophilia seem to have an unusually strong association with religion as expressed in the United States.
And yes, I realize that the argument itself is, well, statistical nonsense. But so is the equally nonsensical position that gays/lesbians are prone to the same behavior. Fight fire with fire, I say. Or, we can cut through the bullshit...although that still leaves the wingnuts in the lurch, so to speak: it's the GOP that enabled Foley's behavior. No amount of spinning will alter that.
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