The other night, in a driving rainstorm, a young man knocked on my door. After looking out my spy hole (I never open my door before doing that; too many panhandlers and scam artists work our street because of the soft-touch lefties in my neighborhood) and seeing a guy with a clipboard, I opened the door.

“I’m from the Human Rights Campaign and we’re trying to fight the Republicans in Congress and their right-wing Christian allies…”

I stopped him right there and said, “Well, I’m one of those so you probably don’t want to talk to me.” He looked at me strangely and just backed off my steps, no doubt thinking I would assault him or something. Well, today I learn that the hyped up Mark Foley affair was orchestrated by this guy’s allies in the Human Rights Campaign. Charlotte blogger The Gay Patriot says it all:

So my questions now are the following:

* When did the HRC employee come into possession of the Mark Foley emails?
* Why did he hold them until October, instead of going to the proper authorities immediately if he truly wanted to expose a potential sex predator?
* What did the officials at HRC know about the Foley matter before today?
* Who is this former HRC employee? What connections might he have with the two-year old outing campaign targeting gay Congressional staff?
* Were other HRC employees involved in this conspiracy?
* Does this former HRC employee have any connections to Democrat Party officials?

Finally, it is worth noting that one of the central figures in the Foley affair is also a Board of Directors member of the Human Rights Campaign — Jeff Trandahl, the former Clerk of the House.

I think the HRC needs to come clean and fully explain to those of you who give them money exactly what the hell they are up to. This entire matter has put every gay American into a bad light by equating child predators with being gay. The HRC has a responsibility to tell us what they know and when they knew it. They are now directly responsible for the anti-gay atmosphere that has emerged from the scandal that one of their own employees helped launch.