The Family Research Council, the same organization that brought you the "war on porn" and pushed hard for the Clinton impeachment debacle, is now blaming the folly of Mark Foley on - what else? - the cutlural influences of liberals. When you can't blame a Clinton, it's the old conservative standby.

Who exactly, besides NAMBLA, hardly an organization with much political clout, is pushing for a rejection of sexual restraints in the name of diversity? What does it even have to do with diversity? The landmark Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas, which is the best I can decipher Perkins' words to imply, had nothing at all to do with diversity, but was about privacy and the what the scope of government can be in people's personal lives. Which, by the way, has been a staple cause of libertarian-influenced conservatives since time immemorial.

Crooks and Liars has a different take on what the real problem is with the entire Foley scandal, however:

Tough to say - being gay does not equate with pedophilia, which is a fallacy that Christian conservative groups have been pushing for decades. So even if Foley had been out of the closet the result may have been the same - repressed pedophilia manifesting itself in creepy IM conversations. However, the fact that so many conservatives have been fixating on the gay aspect of this rather than the pedophilia aspect suggests that homosexual advocates still have a long way to go before openly gay politicians can expect to be accepted. Will and Grace can only accomplish so much.