Sorry, we’re going to get just a little political here today. Several times now I’ve heard conservative commentators defend Congressman Foley, saying he is not a pedophile because he never actually had sex with any of the underage male pages to whom he was sending those rather pathetic sexual instant messages and emails.

For example, I was watching CNN today, and they were interviewing Tom Minnery, VP of Public Policy for Focus on the Family, and he said “I don’t know that Mark Foley is a pedophile, as far as I know, he never actually had sex with any of the pages, he just sent lurid emails to them. That’s a long way from being a pedophile.”

Um…well…the definition of pedophile, according to dictionary.com, is “an adult who is sexually attracted to young children.” There is no mention of whether the adult actually has sex with children. So, I’m sorry, but that is not a long way from being a pedophile. That is downtown Pedophile. Stop defending this guy.