Family values? Ha!

Gingrich won in South Carolina, bastion of Christian fundamentalism and home of Bob Jones University.  I'm not surprised after seeing that clip from the recent debate down there showing the audience giving Newt a standing ovation when he claimed the moderator was just short of despicable for daring to ask him about his second wife's claim that he had asked her for an open marriage.

The man has been married three times.  He cheated on his first wife, and then divorced her when she was diagnosed with a serious illness.  He cheated on his second wife and divorced her when she was diagnosed with a serious illness.  Now he's on wife number three.  While he was cheating on his second wife back in the 90's, he proclaimed in public that President Clinton was morally unfit to serve as president because he cheated on his wife and lied about it.  And during this campaign, he's been talking about "family values" and how people like me are a threat to marriage and family.

I've suspected for quite a while that all of this "family values" crap was just an excuse for judging others. Those who preach it rarely apply the same strict and unforgiving standards to themselves.

What a bunch of sanctimonious, lying, bigoted hypocrites Christianists are.  They use their religion to attack those they don't like and call it their morality while they embrace and engage in the very things they say they're against.

Just to be clear, I don’t care if someone cheats on their spouse, girlfriend or boyfriend, or if they’ve had sex with six people or a hundred. That’s their business. It’s just that it’s bad enough when self-proclaimed moral leaders such as Christianists and politicians who pander to them stand up and claim that I and people like me are a threat to everything good and decent--that’s a fucking lie on top of being degrading and insulting--but when you have someone like Gingrich who doesn’t even come close to practicing what he preaches being held up by people who are the most judgmental, the most intolerant as their standard-bearer… The hefty dose of hypocrisy on top of the oppression is just too much.