Sexual Hypocrisy

February, 2007

REPRESENTATIVE MARK FOLEY, CAUGHT WITH HIS PANTS DOWN, HAS LOTS OF COMPANY1954: STROM THURMOND is elected to the U.S. Senate as the antimiscege-nation candidate. In 1957 he speaks against the Civil Rights Act for 24 hours straight. Only after his death is it confirmed that he fathered a daugh­ter in 1925 with his black maid. 1980: ROBERT BAUMAN, a Republi­can congressman from Maryland and the original sponsor of a proposal to bar gays from holding teaching jobs or receiving public benefits, is c...