One thing that struck me about the whole Mark Foley mess is that it's the Democrats who are speaking up for GOP victims.
Presumably the GOP pages have parents who have completely bought into the GOP message- those secular immoral liberals, whose immorality will be the end of the western civilization, and only the GOP, the icon of all that is good and moral, can stop. Oh, and here are our children, do as you wish with them.
Of course this is nothing new. All those Catholic kids weren't getting molested by atheists; of course not, who knows what kind of unspeakable evil those godless athiests might do to our kids?
I'm not saying that skepticism of outsiders are misguided, but maybe it's the unqualifed trust of people who share your own ideology/DNA that is misguided.
This of course brings us to the biggest irony of them all, blindly trusting our national leaders to preserve our freedoms because someone overseas threatens our freedom. Even as they evicerate the Bill of Rights.