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To: Dale Baker who wrote (29665)	10/3/2006 4:28:31 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 540783

From a WSJ commentary today:"Mr. Foley was well known as a homosexual even if he declined to publicly acknowledge it." Hmmmm - so if conservatives think that gays are pedophiles and Foley was KNOWN in conservative circles to be gay, the gap between their rhetoric and their actions looks pretty wide indeed. The smell factor keeps going up.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (29665)	10/3/2006 4:28:55 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 540783

I agree. Whether they are molesting boys or girls, or preying upon adolescents, pedophilia is not something most people, dem or rep, condone, and it has nothing much to do with healthy heterosexuality or homosexuality. The only people who won't understand that are the people who think there is not such thing as a healthy homosexual orientation- and what can you do about that? It's as bigoted as the person who thinks all blacks are from the hood. Not much you can do about entrenched bigotry.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (29665)	10/3/2006 4:35:20 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540783

I just found that sexual tourism has also come to Central America- Id idn't know that: gbgm-umc.org "Much of the growth of child prostitution in Central America has occurred in the last three years. A recent study of 300 street children by the Nicaraguan Ministry of Family showed that more than 80 percent had begun to work as prostitutes in the past year." "In January 1999, Boston physician Arthur Kanev and Oklahoma City dog trainer Joe Baker were arrested in Costa Rica after several underage girls testified they were lured off the streets by offers of $40 to join parties with foreign men at Mr. Kanev's beach house outside Quepos. The girls were drugged, raped and photographed. More than 300 nude photographs of girls, ages 11 to 16, were found on the premises." This is really horrible: "Sex tourists do not have to slink around dark foreign streets looking for prostitutes or struggle with foreign languages to ask taxi drivers where to find sex. In the comfort of their Northern American homes, they can go to websites offering detailed instructions on where to find sex partners abroad, as well as where to stay and what they can expect to pay." Africa: allafrica.com Thailand: gvnet.com