by Rigorous Intuition » Thu May 12, 2005 12:36 pm
Morford's always good, but that he can make this story personal makes this a must read.<br><br>Excerpt:<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>And there it is. Not merely a sad closeted gay Republican mayor using his office to cruise for and have regular sex with all manner of incredibly young but still of-age males, but allegedly a true-blue pedophile, a child molester, a bona fide, first-class, card-carrying demon. Could it be possible? <br><br>I was there. I was a Boy Scout at the time West is accused of molesting boys and I even traveled on Scouting retreats with him, and even I recall (and my parents tell me) there were rumors and innuendos swirling about West's predilections even back then, askance concern about sending young boys off to overnight getaways with West because, well, something seemed a little amiss. Not necessarily evil, not necessarily predatory, just ... amiss. <br><br>But the rumors were never really elucidated, never really validated. No one ever openly accused West of anything or even openly asked just what the hell his sexual preferences were, so far as I know. Which might seem odd but which was, for the time period in question, not the slightest bit uncommon. <br><br>...<br><br>It's the fact that, in West's case, you can still sleep at night after you've voted against gay love and railed against healthy teen sex and bashed women's rights and criticized adult/youth sex when you are, in fact, so confused and lost and deeply engaged in much of it yourself that it's very likely your mangled, hypocritical mind has lost the ability to distinguish between informed, consensual, happily kinky adult relationships and, say, abusing the honest trust of a pre-teen boy. Or, for that matter, many boys. <br><br>Join that party and toe that line and swallow that nasty doctrine and spit it out into the world like oozing red-meat dogma while you secretly use your power to lure in teenagers and men for sex, and I don't put anything past you, Jim. To my mind, you're capable of anything. Anything at all.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> <p></p><i></i>