1st gay Congressman dies... finally.

America's first openly gay Congressman/ statutory rapist dies at the age of 69. Gerry Studds was a Democrat who admitted to sodomizing one of the 17 year old pages he was entrusted with, making the current scandal of sending suggestive emails to another under age page by a Republican Congressman seem pale in comparison. Unlike Mark Foley, Studds did not resign, nor was he prosicuted for statutory rape for sex with an underaged child, but was instead re-elected by Democrats for several more terms. In his obit, the media glorifies the rapists political achievements and only mentions his previous crimes in passing, while continuing to feed the two week old feeding frenzy over Mark Foley. (I guess lude remarks with minors are far worse than illegal sex with them.) See Chick's DOOM TOWN.