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Anti-Gay Scientologists Backed Mark Foley
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October 4, 2006
by Niles Lathem and Ian Bishop Mark Foley, who resigned from Congress because he got caught sending sexually suggestive e-mails to teenage male pages, had a political relationship with the very anti-gay Church of Scientology, it was revealed yesterday. The controversial cult-like church has major operations in Clearwater, Fla., which just happens to be in Foley's district. The group also hosted a fund-raiser for Foley in May 2003 when he was considering a Senate run. It posted photographs of a smiling Foley posing with key Scientology officials who presented him with a copy of founder L. Ron Hubbard's tome "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health." That book defines "homosexuality" as a "sexual perversion." Although he never officially came out of the closet, that Foley was gay was one of the worst-kept secrets in Washington. A spokeswoman for the church did not return calls seeking comment. Links Anti-Gay Scientologists Backed Mark Foley< at the New York Post
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