Mark Foley's reported behavior is symptomatic of an individual forced to lead a life of secrecy since adolescence. As a means to survive in a society that rejected his homosexuality, he became conditioned to say one thing and do another. His contempt for society's moral code allowed him to abuse its trust without remorse.
The lesson to be learned from Mark Foley is that shaming and harassing teenagers into the closet breeds lies and contempt that ultimately hurt all of us.
His website (linked first here and linked in the post on Wikipedia) gives his business address as San Rafael located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Jordan Edmund, the now 21 year old former page was in CA in 2003 according to his MySpace webpage. At the time, he was a former page.
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