Alcoholism and Homosexuality?

Mark Foley, a Republican congressman who represented West Palm Beach, Florida, was forced to resign in disgrace last Friday. It seems he is a sexual predator who has been sending lewd emails and instant messages to underage male congressional pages.

In a bizarre twist today, he announced that he was going into alcohol rehab. This patently ridiculous ruse raises two questions:

1.) Since when does alcohol rehab change a person's sexual orientation, straight or gay?

2.) Since when does alcohol rehab solve a sexual predator's deviancy?

Is he really trying to say that alcohol made him into a homosexual predator of young boys? That's about as logical as saying a male's sexual orientation is based upon whether he dresses fashionably.

He was on of the many "family values" Republicans who voted to impeach President Clinton. He was quoted at the time as calling Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky "vile."

Last appalling note: He was the chairman of the Congressional Committee on Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus.