When you have a politician who is said to a) be gay b) seduce minors over the Internet and c) have been molested by priests as a kid, the media is left with d: one complicated story on their hands.

And ABC likes to keep things simple. Which may be why they recently decided to pull a story, published Friday afternoon on the Mark Foley scandal from their site. The author of the pulled piece was J. Jennings Moss, a freelancer who claims he outed Foley in the Advocate 10 years ago. His report on Foley focused on some of those details, and was inexplicably pulled.

A number of blogs picked up the story before it was removed from ABCNews.com on Sunday. Moss says he was informed Monday that the piece had been removed, but was not told why. When Moss reached editor Steve Alpern Tuesday, Moss says Alpern thanked him for the piece but that its removal was an "editorial decision." When pressed, according to Moss, Alpern said the piece was "creating confusion."

We admit, it does get kind of confusing. Fox is calling Foley a Democrat, Moss is calling him gay, the New York Times is saying he was molested by priests, and Foley just blames it all on the drink. Queerty calls out what a mess this is for the current red-dominated administration … not to mention the media.

While not as dramatic as "I'm a gay American," the revelation certainly complicates matters further. Not only do we have a member of America's ruling party coming out as a gay man who's been violated by a so-called man of God, but has also gone on to pursue sex with young boys.

We think what they mean is, "if only we had mainstream news outlets that didn't insist on keeping silent about homosexuality, maybe fewer closeted politicians would molest 16-year-olds." Thanks for doing your part, ABC!

ABCNews.com Pulls Foley Sexuality Story [Fishbowl, NY]
ABC.com Pulls Foley Story [Queerty]