U.S. Rep. Bob Inglis (R-SC) made the following statement Monday regarding former Congressman Mark Foley and the on-going investigation.

“I voted for an immediate investigation by the Ethics Committee, and I support the FBI probe. Those investigations will help us learn the lessons we need to learn from this and to punish wrongdoing.

"Here’s what I’ve learned from this so far. When an under-aged person is involved, take allegations of impropriety to those who have the authority to reign in the impropriety. (Bob just now learned this?) Then check back quickly to see if adequate action is being taken to control the impropriety and to protect any children involved. (Particularly if you're dealing with the House Republican leadership.)

"Lives and reputations are being destroyed here. Children have been scarred, a member of congress has lost all dignity, and knowledgeable bystanders are being accused of negligence. As we look into these things, we’d be wise to quiet self-righteousness.

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"U.S. Rep. Bob Inglis (R-Greenville) is next at the microphone. He has come, he says, because he is outraged that gays "are marching in our streets," and vows to fight "the homosexual agenda." He will not accept the moral decay that is creeping South, evidenced by the recent announcement that Charlotte-based Nations Bank Corp., First Union Corp. and Duke Power Co. are joining forces to oust politicians in next year's elections in favor of, as the companies describe them, "pro-diversity, pro-tolerance leaders."
"We have a real threat on our hands," Inglis says. "Some things are right, and some things are wrong, and we're going to say it."
He gets a standing ovation."

"We’ve all had a friend, a colleague or a relative whose bad behavior we should have attempted to control, but we let them drive home from the party drunk, or we took no action as they padded their expense account, or we didn’t intervene to try to save a family from divorce. (We weren't obliged by House rules or our oath of office to do so.) There but for the grace of God goes every one of us—with Mark Foley and the others involved in this sad tale." (Indeed, we should all thank the deity we aren't amoral pedophiles or disposed to turn a blind eye to them.)