Well, we pretty well knew this was coming.

Foley had gay sex with a former page. The ex-page was 21 years old at the time. So is Foley still a predator is the other party is a consenting adult. Have the Democrats painted themselves into a corner with this? Does Nancy Pelosi use the same rhetoric in San Francisco that she does in Washington. If homosexuality is an acceptable alternative, and Foley was just trying to find others like himself, what's wrong with that? These kids are well past puberty. They have the right to discover their own sexuality, right? Right? A sixteen year old can have an abortion without notifying her parents, so what makes a 16 year old boy not able to be gay?

Of course, if we took that point of view, we'd be killing the page program. It's pretty hard to be indignant that Foley wasn't investigated for being gay. If he asks them when they'll turn 18, is that too much like a "predator?" We've been teaching these kids about sex, including the facts about gay sex, so why should anybody be shocked that a gay politician chats them up? I'm sure you can split legal hairs, but once you validate one kind of non-sex sexual relations, what is there to say that other variants are improper. You can bring up the age of consent, but aren't gays born, not made? We don't want to raise homophobes, do we? Do we?

I would prefer that children never have to hear about sex of any kind until they're 12 years old, and that they never be exposed to homosexuality. It's hard enough getting through adolescence as it is without adding another emotion laden issue. Call me a homophobe if you like, but I can't imagine any normal person watching a typical gay pride parade without feeling repelled by the behavior on display.