Pocket Full of Mr. E.

I can buy into him being an alcoholic. I can even buy into him being a really effective covert alcoholic. There are plenty of people that have managed to hide their vices from their work associates successfully, and a man like Foley would have plenty of people around him to enable that sort of thing.

I can buy that drinking makes you do stoopid things. I have seen numerous people, on numerous occasions, make fools of themselves, endanger their lives, even cause the deaths of other people because they were drunk. And as difficult as this may be to believe, I, even I, your own Reverend E., have had a few too many a few times, back during my misspent youth.

But because I have made these mistakes in the past, I am well aware that a man’s reaction to too much strong drink is not to mac on little boys.

Apparently Foley has rethought this excuse as well, because now he says he was molested by a clergyman as a child. He didn’t specify, but Foley professes Catholicism so it’s likely he’s shifting some of the responsibility to a convenient scapegoat. Now, it may be entirely true that he was molested as a teen. I’m not saying that I don’t care whether or not he was. I am saying, though, that it isn’t a mitigating factor in how anyone should react to his behaviour.

I am also greatly disturbed that a man can apparently get away with this in America. According to this article, the law doesn’t address talking dirty to a kid online.

But now that this is out in the open, I am eager to see how America reacts. Will the American Congress react as strongly as I am, or will they try to push it aside until after the elections? Will the law change?

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