For the second time in weeks, a Republican 2012 presidential hopeful has admitted to cheating on his wife. South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford was caught red-handed this time, abandoning his gubernatorial duties for a week to go cavort around Buenos Aires with his mistress.
Not that the indiscretions of Sen. John Ensign and Mark Sanford would be any of our business, but both of them have the nerve to actively try to thwart LGBT rights by saying that gay marriage would destroy the "sanctity" of marriage. No, it looks like Mark and John do a good enough job of that on their own, they don't need LGBT help.
Responding to the additional criticism that Sanford was also a fierce critic of Bill Clinton after his affair in the late 1990's, fellow South Carolina Republican Bob Inglis had some thoughts about what kind of hole the Republican Party is digging itself with hollow moral rhetoric that keeps being undermined by their individual actions:
Yes, whenever you hear a politician talk about protecting marriage's "sanctity" from The Gays, just beware that this "stinking rot of self-righteousness" might smell even worse if you knew what they were doing behind closed doors.But with his governor now felled by similar temptations, Inglis sees an opening for the Republican Party, a chance to “lose the stinking rot of self-righteousness” and “to understand we are all in need of some grace.”
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“This may be an opportunity to extend a little grace to other people, to realize that maybe it’s not 100% this way or that way,” Inglis said.
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