Democrats forgave Rep. Gerry Studds for preying on teen boys, hailed as gay rights pioneer
By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times - Sunday, December 10, 2017
If Alabama voters choose Republican Roy Moore for the U.S. Senate in Tuesday’s special election, it won’t be the first time in the modern era that voters have sent to Congress a man dogged by a teen sex scandal.
Massachusetts voters stood by Democratic Rep. Gerry Studds even after he was censured by the House in 1983 for his sexual relationship at age 36 with a 17-year-old male congressional page, as well as making sexual advances toward two other teenage pages.
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