Former Republican Speaker of the House Hastert Indicted

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Originally posted by: Chilcoot
The Republican Party doesn't have a pedophile problem. There's no meaningful history of the party covering up for pedophiles.

Yes, some pedophiles have been Republicans. But that's it.

What the party does have is a tendency to attack gays and lesbians. To do everything they can to exclude them from society, to treat them as inferior people. Americans don't like that stuff anymore.

How else to explain the careers of:
Rick Santorum
Pat Buchanan
Mike Huckabee
Pat Robertson
Bob Smith
Gary Bauer
Michele Bachmann

All they stand for is saying "Those people over there? The ones that give us the creeps (but somehow also make us tingle at night)? They aren't good enough to be considered Americans."

And so it really screws with Republicans' heads when the truth about a closeted Republican is revealed.
Mark Foley.
Larry Craig.
Ted Haggard.
David Dreier.
Linsdey Graham.

And now, it would seem, Dennis Hastert.

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Originally posted by: Chilcoot
The Republican Party doesn't have a pedophile problem. There's no meaningful history of the party covering up for pedophiles.

Yes, some pedophiles have been Republicans. But that's it.

What the party does have is a tendency to attack gays and lesbians. To do everything they can to exclude them from society, to treat them as inferior people. Americans don't like that stuff anymore.

How else to explain the careers of:
Rick Santorum
Pat Buchanan
Mike Huckabee
Pat Robertson
Bob Smith
Gary Bauer
Michele Bachmann

All they stand for is saying "Those people over there? The ones that give us the creeps (but somehow also make us tingle at night)? They aren't good enough to be considered Americans."

And so it really screws with Republicans' heads when the truth about a closeted Republican is revealed.
Mark Foley.
Larry Craig.
Ted Haggard.
David Dreier.
Linsdey Graham.

And now, it would seem, Dennis Hastert.

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Originally posted by: Chilcoot
No one smart would ever bother debating someone so ignorant of which American political party has spent the
past few decades loudly and vigorously trying to deny gays and lesbians the same rights as heterosexuals to:

* openly serve in our armed forces;
* teach children in school;
* adopt children;
* care for foster children;
* donate blood;
* marry the person they love; and
* be warmly accepted as decent, law-abiding members of American society.

Nor would I.

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Originally posted by: malibber2
Did Hastert and the Republican party management cover up for Foley or not?
Did Hastert and the Republican party management continue allow Foley access to teenagers for two years after they were aware of Foley's misconduct?
Did Hastert and the Republican party management pressure the AP and ABC not to cover Hastert's own problem with children?

Does currently sitting Congressman Trent Franks think Hastert is a stand up top notch guy.
Have any conservative media and fellow Republican's pushed the idea that Hastert is the real victim in all of this?

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Originally posted by: Chilcoot
The Republican Party doesn't have a pedophile problem. There's no meaningful history of the party covering up for pedophiles.

Yes, some pedophiles have been Republicans. But that's it.

What the party does have is a tendency to attack gays and lesbians. To do everything they can to exclude them from society, to treat them as inferior people. Americans don't like that stuff anymore.

How else to explain the careers of:
Rick Santorum
Pat Buchanan
Mike Huckabee
Pat Robertson
Bob Smith
Gary Bauer
Michele Bachmann

All they stand for is saying "Those people over there? The ones that give us the creeps (but somehow also make us tingle at night)? They aren't good enough to be considered Americans."

And so it really screws with Republicans' heads when the truth about a closeted Republican is revealed.
Mark Foley.
Larry Craig.
Ted Haggard.
David Dreier.
Linsdey Graham.

And now, it would seem, Dennis Hastert.

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Originally posted by: chefantwon
I really could care less what homosexuals do in the privacy of their own homes. They have rights like anyone else and once it gets to the Supreme Court, that question will be answered. The separate but equal stuff didn't work before and won't now.

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