By Tessa Adler Los Angeles
(House Speaker Dennis) Hastert must go. He is as guilty of conspiracy and complicity in this scandal as the Catholic Church was in transferring priests that were molesting alter boys instead of reporting them to the police and removing them from the priesthood, where they had access to children. Hastert has known about this pervert in the midst and did nothing but sweep it under the rug and hide him and his crimes. Yet they reproached and impeached (President Bill) Clinton for just having oral sex with a woman of age that was not his wife. These are Republican hypocrites! Now scandal has hit their doors and they act like victims, when the children are the victims. They are opposed to gays marrying but they are not opposed to child molesters? Far worse in my book is (Mark) Foley because he preys on young boys. I am a mother of a son and I am outraged by Hastert still being allowed to serve. If it was my son that was molested, I would be suing all of them.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 11, 2006. Read the original PDF.