A priest who knew disgraced former Congressman Mark Foley has come forward to confirm that he maintained an inappropriate relationship with him.
But, like Foley, the priest, 72-year-old Anthony Mercieca had an excuse ... tranquilizers.
The relationship, which, at one point, involved teaching Foley "wrong things about sex," Mercierca said, took place in the 1960s when Foley would have been in his adolescent years.
May we expect any Republican or those they consort with in their corruption to accept responsibility for their actions or will we always and again be treated to complicated explanations of how it just wasn't their fault things went awry?
I fully expect Mercieca's revelation to lead some of our less-than-astute fellow Americans to conclude that this is how Foley "became gay."
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