Freepers trying to use moral relativism

[Mortos]

I want to know, and I have searched, who the freepers are talking about. Has anyone ever heard of Gary Studs? I won't write what is being said about him, but I can't find anything other than references by right wing websites about this person. I want to know who he is and what he did. Any help would be appreciated.

[11 Bravo]

1. He was an openly gay congressman who had a consensual affair

with a page who was past the age of consent.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Its Gerry Studds...do a google search. He had a relationship with

a 17 yr. old male page and was censured.

[petronius]

3. Don't forget to ask them about Dan Crane, while you're at it...

(He did exactly the same thing as Studds, but with a female page...)

[Mortos]

4. Well which is it

was it consensual with someone over the age of consent or was it with a minor. All I find on a goodle search is free republic posts which I don't use for factual information.

[ComerPerro]

5. Here's how FReeper "sources" work

Someone says something on Free Republic. Its an outrageous claim. But they have a "source".

Turns out the source is Bill OhReally.

Bill OhReally's source, as it turns out, was NewsMax

NewsMax listed Drudge as it's source

DrudgeReport shows LittleGreenFootballs as it's source.

And LittleGreenFootballs? What's its source? Why, FreeRepublic, of course...


Full Circle

[babylonsister]

6. From wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Studds

Congressional page sex scandal

Studds is remembered chiefly for his role in the 1983 Congressional page sex scandal, when he and Representative Dan Crane were censured by the House of Representatives for separate sexual relationships with a minor – in Studds's case, a 1973 relationship with a 17-year-old male congressional page. The relationship was consensual, but violated age of consent laws and presented ethical concerns relating to working relationships with subordinates.

During the course of the House Ethics Committee's investigation, Studds publicly acknowledged his homosexuality, a disclosure that, according to a Washington Post article, "apparently was not news to many of his constituents." Studds stated in an address to the House, "It is not a simple task for any of us to meet adequately the obligations of either public or private life, let alone both, but these challenges are made substantially more complex when one is, as I am, both an elected public official and gay."

As the House read their censure of him, Studds turned his back and ignored them. Later, at a press conference with the former page standing beside him, the two stated that what had happened between them was nobody's business but their own.

[valerief]

7. Oh, that's so pre 9-11. n/t