Congressman Mark Foley Headed to the Big House...?

It's all over the news now about Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) resigning in disgrace over inappropriate sexually-tinged contact with male pages who worked in D.C. while in high school. I gotta preface this by saying that no matter his party affiliation, he is entitled to his day in court and a presumption of innocence. Is he acting in a completely wrong and inappropriate manner, especially for a Congressman? Absolutely. It still has to be proven that he broke some law(s) before he goes to jail, gets strung up, etc. as the media is demanding.

Read some of the stuff from the MSNBC story below, and the whole story, but it's enough to make my skin crawl. Although the hypocrisy of this man is stunning, given that he's one of the main authors of stronger laws to punish child sex predators, there may be some justice here too. If he is criminally prosecuted and has his day in court, he may be sentenced under the very laws he helped to write should he be found guilty. That would be the textbook definition of justice, and my guess is that a soft Congress-critter of slight build concvicted of sex crimes wouldn't fare very well at all in prison.

"ABC News reported Friday that Foley also engaged in a series of sexually explicit instant messages with current and former teenage male pages. In one message, ABC said, Foley wrote to one page: "Do I make you a little horny?" In another message, Foley wrote, "You in your boxers, too? ... Well, strip down and get naked."