[ CNN, October 2, 2006 ]"there's no defense of this behavior. It's outrageous, it's shocking. But it shouldn't be totally surprising when we hold up tolerance and diversity as the guidepost for public life this is what you end up getting. A congressman chasing 16-year- old boys down the halls of Congress, it's a shame. It's a tragedy and it does need to be addressed but not just the symptoms here.

We need to go to the source of the problem. And if the leadership was negligent, it should be dealt with and it should be dealt with in the most severe way possible."

Mr. Perkins, on national television, has damned his own organization - because the complicity of those who enable sexual predators is the real problem, and Mr. Perkins - along with the Family Research Council - is now complicit as well.

Sexual predators come in both sexes and they are both gay and straight. They come from all walks of life - the ranks of Congress or, for that matter, probably from the- incudling Family Research Council itself, and their enablers can be Popes, US speakers of the United States House, or GOP potentates profiting from a regime of forced abortion in the Marianas Islands garment industry. Organizations and leaders on the Christian right who are trying to spin the Foley scandal as a problem resulting from tolerance and acceptance of homosexuality are themselves becoming complicit. By trying to shift the focus, they are making the work of sexual predators easier.

Tony Perkins, The Family Research Council he heads, and the entire echo chamber on the US and Christian right that's trying desperately to spin the Foley scandal are themselves becoming drawn into the pathology of denial that helps to enable the work of sexual predators in the first place. They are becoming "Liars For Jesus but not really - in fact they are merely becoming liars for politics and shills for ideology.

But, that's not news. It's a tale of human moral corruption as old as the hills.