The gay rights
group Human Rights Campaign announced Wednesday that one
of its employees was responsible for creating the blog
that first published the e-mails sent to teenage male
pages by former congressman Mark Foley. The
employee, who was acting independently of HRC, was a
junior staff member hired in September to assist in
organizing HRC members in Michigan, according
to The New York Times.
The blog, www.stopsexpredators.blogspot.com,
first published on September 24, triggered the
events that eventually led to Foley's resignation.
A spokesman for HRC said that when the
group learned of the employee's actions,
it immediately terminated him for unauthorized use
of the company's technology to create the blog.
"The minute we learned about it, we took
decisive action," said spokesman David Smith.
The former HRC employee has declined to comment
or identify himself to the media. However, he has
updated the infamous blog by urging the media to
ask about "when the Republican leadership knew about [the
Foley incident], what they did, how they were connected,
what favors took place, etc." The update
also states that "the true hero here is the
page who reported the e-mails in the first place."
(The Advocate)
