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Posted on Oct 13, 2006

So, as if the Mark Foley stuff wasn’t weird enough already, it’s about to get even weirder and nastier. According to Max Blumenthal at The Nation, some anti-Republican gay rights activists (inspired apparently by the Foley scandal and a supposed “gay clique” that some claim to be responsible for the coverup) sent a memo with the names of closeted congressional staffers to Christian-right advocacy groups in hopes of inciting a “purge” of gay Republicans from Washington.

The Nation:
The Coming Gay Republican Purge

by MAX BLUMENTHAL

Immediately after the Mark Foley scandal broke, some anti-Republican gay-rights activists composed a memo containing the names of closeted gay Republican Congressional staffers and sent it to leading Christian-right advocacy groups. The founder and chairman of one of those groups, the Rev. Don Wildmon of the American Family Association, told me he has received that memo, which he referred to simply as “The List.” Based on The List’s contents, Wildmon is convinced that a secretive gay “clique” boring within the Republican-controlled Congress is responsible for covering up Foley’s sexual predation toward teenage male House pages. Moreover, Wildmon calls on the Republican Party leadership to promptly purge the “subversive” gay staffers.

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By Margaret, October 14, 2006 at 11:47 pm Link to this comment
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Broiler, I was thinking the exact same thing.

This whole thing just goes along with the fact we are quickly turning into a not so free country. What’s next is the only question.

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By Broiler, October 14, 2006 at 11:03 am Link to this comment
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This is the stuff comedians dream of:

“The Coming Gay Republican Purge”

Not funny enough? Here’s another:

“gay Republican Congressional staffers”

These are language land mines! Watch your step:

“gay “clique” boring within the Republican-controlled Congress”

Tell me, are they “boring” uninteresting or are
“boring” as in drilling for oil?

Thank you MAX BLUMENTHAL!!

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