God's Own Party?

Well, it's more like the Church (Roman Catholic, I mean) than you might have thought.

Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) - co-chair of the US House Missing and Exploited Children Caucus, no less - has resigned. Why? Because he sexually propositioned a sixteen year-old congressional page. Or, more accurately, because it has become public that he propositioned the page, thanks to ABC News, who broke the story.

Yes. The House Republican leadership apparently knew about it months ago - and the only thing they did was warn the pages "to stay away from Foley." Granted, that's better than the Church usually manages - no bishop ever warned the altar boys to stay away from Fr. Whosis - but it's not really enough, is it?

Now, I want to make it very clear that I'm not claiming that no Democrat has ever propositioned a sixteen-year-old. But the GOP runs on being the "Family Values Party". If you can't walk the walk, as they say...