Evidence of the Decline, Part 20768
A twice divorced politician is accused by his ex-wife of coming to her after an eight year affair and asking for an open marriage. He’s asked the question at a debate, and has the chutzpah to slam the moderator as being the immoral/out of line one. Not only does he get away with it, but this is the man who will likely get the “conservative evangelical” vote.
[As an aside, if you can ignore the moral failings it's an excellent example of an alpha reframe. No wonder he can keep finding new wives.]
In a related note, a “conservative evangelical” leader actually has the courage to call out Callista Gingrich for her own moral failing of being a married man’s mistress for eight years, and the reaction of other “conservative evangelicals” is stunned awkwardness – not at the woman’s behavior, but that this religious leader would dare to point out that she bears her own element of culpability. Of course, she has only been married once, so it’s irrelevant that she was banging a married man for eight years.
This is the state of our supposed “moral majority,” folks.
As I pointed out at Victor’s blog, most people simply aren’t honest in their religion, which is why they end up supporting politicians like Gingrich, even though it’s obvious that Gingrich is quite immoral, and has engaged in behavior that God would never approve of. He is the very definition of wolf in sheep’s clothing.