“adults should hang out with adults, pages should hang out with pages,””

Such a silly notion. What is with Americans that makes them so ready to throw the baby out with the bathwater?

Out of the hundreds of senators and members of congress, a few might have “contradictory yearnings” for younger members of the same sex, but fewer still would ever act on these feelings even when provided with temptations and opportunities.

It is to be expected that a few pages, being also of the human condition, have similar inclinations, sometimes even for older members of the same sex. These hyper, oversexed, precocious bags of hormones have little or nothing to lose by “taking a chance on love.” Women have long known this is often an effective way to boost their climb up the corporate ladder.

So what do American “officials” do about the molehills surfaced by the improper behavior of one or two whose lack of good judgement and discretion has landed them on the front pages (pun by accident)?

Right! Go in with all guns blazing, missing almost all the real targets, and turning an otherwise nearly insignificant private molehill into an entire mountain range of wholesale public depravity.

What’s even more astonishing is that Americans shoot themselves in the foot this way, time after time after time! There must be some kind of NATIONAL LEARNING DISABILITY!

Signed…
“Waiting for Americans to GROW UP.”

Being gay and being a pedophile are two different things.

Blaming alcohol or being gay for wanting to touch little boys should make every person in America and the world disgusted on behalf of those who are gay or suffer from alcoholism.

Don’t tell me there aren’t some Republican alcoholics that don’t feel a little slighted by this...are you one drink away from e-mailing a teenager? Of course not.

This kind of behavior should not be tolerated and I wonder if a group like AA or a gay activism group could sue for defamation?

Also, anyone else wonder what the next excuse will be? We’re up to Catholic Priests on the list…

...If I had to guess I’d go with Bill Clinton.

orientation? why else are the pages in washington d.c. except to get to know the congress members?
has anyone even considered that the parents of these pages bare some of the blame for subjecting these children to such a world?

I would say what is the Republician party doing, I believe they went to the concertative “bible says, those who are gay are not going to go to heaven”, something like that.  Now that they were so called elected into office, all kinds of double sandards occur.  If lighting were to stike or someone turning into a pillor of salt they would get their just deserts.