Do I think that the mere fact that Foley was known to be gay should have been enough to make Republican leaders look very seriously at the complaints of the page’s family about his overly friendly emails? In the abstract, I feel the tug of what the Journal calls PC, but which is also a simple matter of trying to be fair. But Foley was widely known to be sexually interested in young men. Let’s leave aside whether he was widely known to be interested in underage males–which I don’t think the link establishes, and I don’t think is true. When a 54-year-old man who is widely known to be sexually interested in 20-year-old men is accused of over-friendliness to a 16-year-old boy, you’ve got a reason to act. And you’d have that reason if you were dealing with a 54-year-old man known to be interested in 20-year-old women who was accused of over-friendliness to a 16-year-old girl.