And the American Dream
We in America don't suffer fools much when it comes to marital infidelity - adultery is a cardinal no no. Hence, if you are a public figure, like that poor schmuck from Gingrich's congressional class of 1994 who had an affair with a 'part time staff member' (what was she
doing the other part time?) you are asked to resign by the leadership.
Contrast this with the French leadership where the leader is a known adulterer and in
fact adulterated in office and switched wives mid-term. The French themselves jokingly refer to their three national past-times as "Le Fut (football/soccer), Greve (striking, as in industrial striking not hitting anyone) and L'Adultere (you guessed it.)
I ask you- with half the country divorced isn't that more actually representative or at
least equally representative of the country ? Of the people who do not divorce a sizeable
portion of those experienced some infidelity in marriage anyway.
Then Rachel Maddow lambasts these politicians as hypocrites because-what gay people
don't also switch partners now and again and so she can talk?
Are we being too cruel to our politicians? Politician is after all, not supposed to be, PASTOR
or Theologian, or Priest- perhaps infidelity there juggling concubines is worthy of dismissal.
But Politician? What are they supposed to be representing us on here? Are we privy to the details of a nagging wretchedly unhappy verbally abusive wife, or a woman who prefers the company of other women (or her georgeous adult sons) to giving her husband any so he cheats? It takes two to Tango they say, and that means it takes two to be wallflowers. So why don't we run these spouses through public humiliations also? We fire the men politicians?
i have to say, with a bit of European sensibility about these sorts of matters having spent all of high school in Europe, that I find little to do with, for example the Euro melt-down or Greek currency crisis with someone cheating on their spouses. That is to say, what about the Financial Regulation Reform being currently debated has a hoot or hollar to do with a representative getting too affectionate with a staff person? Nada, Nunca, Not a Whit.
So if his job performance isn't compromised, if he is still the same analytic dolt with respect to his bills, why fire him? He didn't run for Pastor did he?
Lest you think I have jumped on the same slide toward Gommorrah the rest of the secular europe has regarding this, I should say that you might read the annals of King David-that famous forebearer of our very own Jesus. King David, perhaps the greatest King in Israeli history (or maybe Solomon was greatest, or was he just wisest?) not only was an adulterer, but he conspired to essentially hire a hit man to do in his lover Bathsheba's husband Uriah by sending him to the front lines of a battle then commanding his commanding officer to withdraw troop forces behind him so he was left dangling unprotected in the line of fire. This created a sharade of -oh poor Urian lost nobly in battle- now I get to keep the pregnant Bathsheba. Talk about a Sleazy Mess!
God apparently forgave King David. Totally and Completely. He not only forgave the two adulterous wanton lovers, he blessed them eventually with a son who was the wisest in the world King Solomon whose wisdom has not been surpassed since.
So shouldn't we cut politicans a break in America? Shouldn't the job qualifications have more to do with what they actually do in Congress rather than where they spend their evenings? It is a hard life I imagine with families now in home districts, and being requried to work long hours in Congress in DC where a fair amount of socializing is expected actually.
One confessor once told me that weaknesses of the flesh are the easiest to commit and therefore should be the easiest to forgive. If God forgives them, who are we to run people out of town for it? Aren't you being a little too Church Ladyist there Republican leadership?
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