Politicians need to stop criticizing each other for having affairs. You know the ones who protest the loudest are in the back room boning their secretary or their friend’s wife or some prostitute when they’re not in front of their precious cameras.
And I really don’t think having an affair makes you a bad legislator or should immediately designate your pink slip.
But, for chrissakes, Republicans! All the bastions of morality who spewed faux indignation after Clinton’s Cigar Adventures with Lewinsky are, one-by-one, revealing themselves card-carrying members of the Scarlet H club – Hypocrites.
Sanctity of marriage, my ass. Newt Gingrich, Larry Craig, David Vitter and now John Ensign have all emerged as pathetic boobs committing the same sins for which they’ve ordered others’ political executions.
Furthermore, these are all men (old and white) who have called for the preservation of the their version of marriage and would keep same-sex marriage from being legal. Yet, they grind their own marriages to a pulp. How they think adultery should remain legal while same-sex marriage not, according to their own logic and dogma, is beyond explanation.
It is always the Christians, always the right wingers, the Sarah Palins, the Carrie Prejeans and now the John Ensigns who make the Religious Right-Wing Hypocrites-R-Us Party so unpalatable. They hold everyone else to a standard they themselves cannot meet.
Every week, another of my Republican friends (mostly white and 30) tell me they are abandoning the Red Party and heading over to the Libertarians. And you can thank, in large part, the never-ending, vomit-inducing mountain of hypocrisy that eminates from the right side of the aisle. It’s beyond grotesque.
Senator Ensign is a veterinarian by training. How can his extra-marital fence-jumping habit be broken?
“Neuter and Spay, it’s the Only Way.”
See:
http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/john-ensign-promise-keeper/
Liberals don’t believe in morals or values, but yet you cast judgement on Republicans who apparently don’t live up to their own morals or values. If neither values nor morals exist, as liberals so often claim, how can you identify someone like Sen. John Ensign who has committed adultery.
For you, it’s not even about making mistakes. Such an acknowledgement would mean you believe in absolute truths. But that can’t be the case, because it takes a belief in God to believe in absolute truths – the understanding that good and evil exists and that right and wrong exists.
Furthermore, adultery is not illegal. But it is immoral and a sin. That is a problem for you, though. If you don’t believe in the Bible, you cannot believe in sin. And if you don’t believe in sin, you can’t believe in right and wrong. And if you can’t believe in right and wrong, you can’t believe in morals or values.
So what’s your deal? Is it because you think Republicans aren’t supposed to screw up? Do you think as far as screwing up is concerned, only liberals are allowed to do it? But then again, that takes us right back to what is right and what is wrong. In your eyes, you judge conservative Christians for making mistakes. Even if you were correct in declaring no absolute truth exists, that would mean nothing anyone does is immoral.
That provides another problem. Certain laws are passed in this country based on legislators’ beliefs that certain acts are immoral, such as adults having sex with minors and the like. Most believe that is immoral, so it is in fact illegal. The same logic applies to certain dos and don’ts at the workplace. I could go on and on.
We all make mistakes – every damned one of us. But liberals will never be in any position to lecture anyone on the subject. You know, moral relativism must be a gloriously convenient belief system.
Oh, and anyone who so-called converts to libertarianism were never real Republicans anyway. The party can do without weaklings like that. Third parties are irrelevant, and probably always will be.
What a freaking joke.
Now I see, you’re a hatemongering lib. Why is it you guys are so easy to peg? You bash Oklahoma and stereotype about Republicans. Have you figured it out, moron? YOU are the backward intolerant type of person that creates problems on this planet.
And by the way, hatemonger, I am an Atheist too, a tolerant Atheist that doesn’t demonize Christians or blame them for my problems. I’ve lived happily with Christians for over 20 years as an Atheist.
Essence: Don’t try to twist your backwards logic; humanity has and will always recognize a standard of right and wrong by how society deems it. It doesn’t take a Christian to know that betraying your lover to another man/woman is reprehensible; that killing another civilized human is absolutely heinous, so forth and so forth.
But somehow, your God frees you from this concept and apparently claims that anyone who doesn’t believe in him, that is supposedly absolute “Good”, is incapable of knowing right from wrong when…oh wait! Isn’t this the same god that, when he COULD have just let humanity live in paradise and innocence in that perfect little “Garden” of his, set up a big magical tree with fruit that apparently possessed the power to alter the concept of reality for anyone that ate them…entrusting, might I add, the fate of all his “beloved children” to two nude predecessors with an intellect appearing pretty much below the infant level, laced with curiosity and easily swayed by this desire to know, ate from this stand-out tree!
So you claim a God that condemns all of humanity for the “sin” of curiosity and understanding on the part of two mere beings? Is he so good that he would put the tree there in the first place? Did some being higher than he or some law that he pre set for himself, dictate that he must “test” humanity when they apparently, as the book says, communed and loved him so much. Is it not a greater good to help his children so that they might not stray from this single “path?”
If he had this ultimate choice but chose not to prevent Sin from happening that is also a creation of his own part since he IS everything? He is malevolent.
Could it be that he must follow an orderly concept and therebye not overstep his own balanced limits? He is not Omniscient.
Do NOT claim that he is beyond my simple human understanding as so many have done before, because that attests you are a higher being because you have something of a relationship. That is pride and it doesn’t take an understanding of “Sin” to know when someone’s being a prideful douchebag.