Foley's poison apple sale

Let's get one thing clear, bloggers, mainstream media, pundits, politicians et al: Mark Foley is not gay. He might be homosexual, but he's never wanted membership in the club, and he's not going to get it now. He represents nothing more than a mentally ill, deranged constituency of one.

Unlike many of my fellow progressives, I did not rejoice when I heard about the Foley scandal. I knew exactly where they were going to take this, and sure enough, it's been taken there. We're in full-on blame-the-gays mode.

Let's begin with WorldNetDaily columnist and professional twat Linda Harvey. This braindead harpy seems to think that Foley's problem indicates that all gay men should be locked up and castrated. She says:

Open or suspected homosexuals should never be elected. The problem with homosexuals is that they frequently don't have common sense and don't acknowledge appropriate boundaries. Weird sex, public displays of "affection" and nudity, and sex with youth are built into the "gay" sub-culture. Witness any pride parade, stroll around any predominantly "gay" neighborhood, or visit "GLBT" websites and you quickly see the problem.

Next up, let's take a visit the Lone Star Times blog. Quoth one of the commenters:

People used to fear us a year ago they were scared to death of us! We have let that happen in our allowing deranged boy blind faggots and wimp bastard retreatists get their hands on the reigns. I read in the paper this morning that Foley wasn't outed because we were afraid of offending gays!

Wow! So somehow, the Iraq quagmire is the gays' fault, as demonstrated by the Foley scandal. What analysis! Never mind that Mark Foley is one out of hundreds of Republicans, most of whom would just as soon see the homos sent to the gas chamber if they thought it would please the cracker electorate as represented above.

Well, unlike some underarm hair of Joseph Farah's or some 297-pound unemployed redneck from the greater Houston area (just making a guess, based on my experience there), I have had a bit more exposure to gay men than some 1950s PSA and reruns of The Match Game. Let me make this clear: Not only does every gay man I know have no interest in underaged boys, they also abhor and ostracize the small minority of them who do. So you folks shut the hell up and take responsibility for your party's own mess, and stop trying to place the blame on me, Barney Frank, some disgraced congressman from 30 years ago and Bishop Gene Robinson.

Oh, and a special message for Mark Foley: If you're thinking of having some contrite, James McGreevey "I am a gay American" moment, don't. No one wants to hear about your alcoholism, your supposed abuse at the hands of priests or whatever. Just go find some dark corner where you can masturbate to the pre-teen section of the JC Penney catalog and Degrassi episodes and vanish.

Update: To be fair, LST blogger David Benzion (as noted in the comments) has deleted the comment I quoted, and the LST people have done a good job historically of deleting or calling out people on such comments. I wouldn't read the blog otherwise.