The total silence from the Fundie crowd is curious

[Toots]

Where is Jerry Fallwell and Pat Robertson and Dobson and ????? They never let any situation go by without piping up and telling their flock what to think. Why the intense silence now??? Come on Dobson what does Family Research Center have to say about these family values you voted for? Come on Fallwell let us hear how Hillary is the Devil but poor old Foley was just trying to get him a little (boy). Cat got your tongues??

[WilliamPitt]

1. The Washington Times editorial is proof they aren't being silent

They're just screaming down telephones behind closed doors.

[katinmn]

2. I hope the media is badgering them for comments.

they'll have to eventually cough something up

[TechBear_Seattle]

3. Republicans can do no wrong; they are God's Own Party

It must be a liberal frame-up to discredit those holy men who implement God's will. Until they can cobble together some credible proof, they are remaining silent.

[whistle]

4. The fundies are re-evaluating their own positions and also having

...their e-mails and hard-drives scrubbed

[SmokingJacket]

5. It's a lose-lose situation for them!

I'd keep my trap shut, too.

[mac56]

6. C'mon James! Focus on the Family, for god's sake!

Won't someone think of the children?!

[meegbear]

9. Could only find one reference to it ...

Senate Kills Child Custody Act
by Steve Jordahl

With most of the media consumed with Mark Foley’s dalliance with congressional pages and Bob Woodward’s hit piece on the Bush administration, you may have missed news of a critical defeat for parental rights. (emphasis theirs)

The bill that would make it a crime to take a minor girl across state lines to get an abortion passed both the house and the senate, but was blocked by Illinois’ Dick Durban. The senate fell three votes short of the sixty votes needed to override the block. Douglas Johnson of National Right to Life responds.

<snip>

http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0042187.cfm

[meegbear]

17. Found a press release:

Dobson Statement On Foleygate: No Mention Of House Leadership
By Greg Sargent

So an official statement about Foleygate has just landed in our inbox from James Dobson's powerful evangelical organization Focus on the Family. The statement demonstrates plenty of mercy, and very little fire and brimstone. There's no word in it about the House GOP leadership, no word on whether it had a moral obligation to act sooner on Foley, and no word on its current conduct. It notes that "if" Foley is guilty of what he's been accused of, then it's right that he resigned and it's right that "authorities" (it isn't specified which ones) are looking into whether "he" committed a criminal act. And it says that "this is not a time to be talking about politics." Full statement after the jump.

From Focus on the Family:

Colorado Springs, Colo. -- Focus on the Family Action Senior Vice President of Government and Public Policy Tom Minnery issued the following statement today about the scandal involving ex-Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla:

"This is not a time to be talking about politics, but about the well-being of those boys who appear to have been victimized by Rep. Foley. If he is indeed guilty of what he is accused of, it is right that he resigned and that authorities are looking into whether criminal charges are warranted.

"This is yet another sad example of our society's oversexualization, especially as it affects the Internet, and the damage it does to all who get caught in its grasp."

As Paul Krugman noted today, in February 2001, Dobson wrote the following about Bill Clinton:

When assessing the legacy of Bill Clinton, we can’t overlook his shameful sexual behavior in the Oval Office, and then, his lies under oath to the American people to cover it up. Indeed, it is my belief that no man has ever done more to debase the presidency or to undermine our Constitution -- and particularly the moral and biblical principles upon which it is based -- than has William Jefferson Clinton.

http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2006/oct/02/dobson_statement_on_foleygate_no_mention_of_house_gopleadership

[verse18]

They don't want to be seen as gay-bashers?

:eyes:
That's a meme I've been hearing lately.

[mac56]

8. That was Newt Gingrich's lameass alibi on Fox News,

Yeahyeahsuresure.

[verse18]

12. Tony Perkins from the Family Research Council

Was pushing this on CNN last night, too. Saying the problem was not thoroughly investigated because repug leadership didn't want to be seen as gay-bashers.

Since when have repugs every been afraid to look like gay-bashers? It's their raison d'etre.

[mac56]

14. Yeah! Right! They're SOOOOOOO concerned

about being thought as dangerous homophobes, ain't they?!

:eyes:

[sarge43]

7. Their heads just exploded

It'll take them some time and an electron microscope to find and reassemble the pieces.

[npincus]

10. They are pissed, check out:

http://www.rr-bb.com/showthread.php?t=277883

a Duer provided me w/the link yesterday. This is from a site called "Rapture Ready".

[LTR]

13. Pretty disturbing board there

Especially considering that someone there has THIS for an avatar:

[C_U_L8R]

11. One of those fundie power brokers

was just on CNN (didn't catch his name)
threatening that fundies don't wanna be associated
with Republicans anymore... well it's a start

[Matariki]

15. Didn't you get the message

'having' little boys is one of the privileges of power. of course they don't disapprove.

[Double T]

16. I think the 'family values' and 'religious right' just got..........

kicked in the balls by their own politicos and they have NOT recovered yet from their gasp for air. I'm sure the Devil will be brought into the situation shortly.

[Old and In the Way]

18. I hope the stonewalling and hypocrisy continues.

Perhaps this is the worst possible way for the Mullah's of the Radical Right to play this. Everyday that they remain silent, the rank and file have to wonder why. Eventually, they will realize that Focus on the Family is simply another political operating unit of the RNC. Sorry naive religious RW folks...you've been voting against your best interests because you bought the lies your leadership have been telling you.

[Marr]

19. They haven't read the papers. They're busy fondling the choir boys.