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Honestly, sometimes this stuff just writes itself.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., abruptly resigned from Congress on Friday in the wake of questions about e-mails he wrote a former teenage male page.

Campaign aides had previously acknowledged that the Republican congressman e-mailed the former Capitol page five times, but had said there was nothing inappropriate about the exchange. The page was 16 at the time of the e-mail correspondence.

Foley, who represents an area around Palm Beach County, e-mailed the page in August 2005. Foley asked him how he was doing after Hurricane Katrina and what he wanted for his birthday. The congressman also asked the boy to send a photo of himself, according to excerpts of the e-mails that were originally released by ABC News.

ABC News reported Friday that Foley also engaged in a series of sexually explicit instant messages with current and former teenage male pages.

Foley, as chairman of the Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus, had introduced legislation in July to protect children from exploitation by adults over the Internet.

Anyone else think the world would be a better place if Republicans would just lighten up, and feel free to be GAY?

You know? Just come out and spare us all the "daddy-state" repression that causes so much trouble?