Morality

What's morality? Are the Republicans moral? Are the Democrats? Are priests?

I'm just askin cause lately I've been hearing a LOT of stories about behaviour I wouldn't classify as very moral and it's interesting how things shake out.

Can a GROUP of people actually be classified as more moral than another?

What if a member of that group acts in an immoral fashion? Are they still members of that group? If so can the group still be considered moral? How does a group maintain their morality label with an offending member in their midst? Do they kick the offending member out or claim that the offending member was never REALLY part of their group. Is such ouster in itself moral?

I'm asking these questions because of all the hypocrisy inundating all the news I'm hearing these days. Things like ...

A mayor and ex boy scout leader (of course) who has made his fortune in good measure because of his staunch anti-homosexual stance. Advocating and initiating all sorts of hateful prejudicial anti-gay legislation, claiming the moral highground I suppose that homosexuality is a sin in the eyes of his judeo-christian god. Interesting things about this mayor? Apparently he's a closet gay man himself. But hey at least he claims he never molested anyone under the age of 18.

Was it denial about his own sexuality that drove hime? Was it shame? Was it self preservation? But most important ... was it moral?

Why are there so many stories about closeted gays being the most vitriolic advocates AGAINST homosexuality?

Yesterday I was astounded to hear a story about the aptly named Neal Horsley. Darling of the extreme right, passionate anti-abortion activist, anti-gay all round moral fine upstanding scion of the moral majority. Someone the extreme fundamentalist call one of their own. Indeed. This is the same man who recently went on the Alan Colmes Radio show and basically admitted to engaging in beastiality. This is the same man who spent time in prison for dealing drugs. The same man who admits to engaging in homosexuality himself. If this man were any more repressed he'd explode, no WONDER he is so anti everything. I mean REALLY ...

"Is it true?" Colmes asked.

"Hey, Alan, if you want to accuse me of having sex when I was a fool, I did everything that crossed my mind that looked like I..."

AC: "You had sex with animals?"

NH: "Absolutely. I was a fool. When you grow up on a farm in Georgia, your first girlfriend is a mule."

AC: "I'm not so sure that that is so."

NH: "You didn't grow up on a farm in Georgia, did you?"

AC: "Are you suggesting that everybody who grows up on a farm in Georgia has a mule as a girlfriend?"

NH: It has historically been the case. You people are so far removed from the reality... Welcome to domestic life on the farm..."

Colmes said he thought there were a lot of people in the audience who grew up on farms, are living on farms now, raising kids on farms and "and I don't think they are dating Elsie right now. You know what I'm saying?"

Horsley said, "You experiment with anything that moves when you are growing up sexually. You're naive. You know better than that... If it's warm and it's damp and it vibrates you might in fact have sex with it."

EWWWW YUCK! Yet this guy is someone the right is more than willing to rally around. Morality be damned.

Next up, all the hypocrites blathering on about the sanctity of marriage. Sanctity my ass. Where were they defending the sanctity of marriage during their multiple divorces ( or better yet when they were getting a little on the side or even BETTER yet when they were forcefully sodomizing their wives or terrorizing them so much that they were forced to flee under the cover of night in a foreign country to get away. Just today I saw a report about a frequent failed republican candidate charged today with statutory sodomy against 13 YEAR OLD. HOW MORAL IS THAT!

How about when lying about sex was so important that it got a president impeached but lying about a war resulting in the deaths of thousands of soldiers and hundreds of thousands of civilians is apparently just business as usual.

And there's more

Oh I'm sure the Repugs could probably post a list of Democrats whose behavious was just as immoral, altho the beastiality thing is pretty extreme imo, but then again they aren't the party beating everyone on their heads about exactly how MORAL and RIGHTEOUS and GODLY they are and how they represent the MORAL vote in the country.

Moral my ass. I am just SICK of listening to these guys moralize about the depravity of all the rest of us as if they were the absolute symbol of purity and goodness. The references that I link to in this rant were all too easy to find and there were many many more that I did not include which turns my stomach quite frankly but if you feel so inclined ... do a google.

The short of it is there are a LOT of immoral goings on going on both inside and outside of government and the Republican party is NOT the protector of morality for the American people in fact one could argue they are in fact the poster boys for immorality. So get off yer high horse or back away from that mule slowly cause you are BUSTED.

IA