I'd forgotten about this: Gerry Studds had sex with a 17 yo male page, said it was nobody's business but theirs and after the scandal was continued to sit in Congress another 14 years:
Studds is remembered chiefly for his role in the 1983 Congressional page sex scandal, when he and Representative Dan Crane were censured by the House of Representatives for separate sexual relationships with a minor – in Studds's case, a 1973 relationship with a 17-year-old male congressional page. The relationship was consensual, but violated age of consent laws and presented ethical concerns relating to working relationships with subordinates.
During the course of the House Ethics Committee's investigation, Studds publicly acknowledged his homosexuality, a disclosure that, according to a Washington Post article, "apparently was not news to many of his constituents." Studds stated in an address to the House, "It is not a simple task for any of us to meet adequately the obligations of either public or private life, let alone both, but these challenges are made substantially more complex when one is, as I am, both an elected public official and gay."
As the House read their censure of him, Studds turned his back and ignored them. Later, at a press conference with the former page standing beside him, the two stated that what had happened between them was nobody's business but their own.
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I am disgusted with Foley and happy he resigned. But I'm also disgusted by the hypocrisy on the left on this. If Foley was a Democrat, the same amoral folks on the left attacking him now would be defending him. No doubt about it. It's pedophilia if the older man is a Republican. If he's a Democrat, its love forbidden by a repressive society. |
