You know the jig is up when even a guy from the National Review thinks the GOP attack on same-sex marriage is absurd:
Mike Poterma writes: I think this Sanford scandal underscores a central truth. The anti-gay-marriage forces are stuck making a slippery-slope argument when, in fact, we’re already at the bottom of the slippery slope. Here’s a guy, Sanford, who has not just not a moral and religious incentive to keep his marriage vows, but also a political-survival incentive. Yet the public sense of the sacredness of marriage has declined to the point that even he couldn’t do it. How much more could this institution be eviscerated, by letting a tiny, tiny minority of same-sexers join it? (Gays are a small fraction of the population, and the percentage of them who want to get married is a small fraction of the small fraction. The issue is, as the lawyers say, de minimis.)
As much as I love a good political sex scandal -- especially of the Sanford, Vitter and Ensign "family values" conservatives variety -- I can't help but think what sad little cowards these guys are on top of being hypocrites. Deep down I think we can all understand how affairs happen. With Vitter, Eliot Spitzer and the like, they were just sexual escapades. But if Sanford's was really worth wreaking such havoc on himself (he "cried in Argentina for five days") and everyone around him, isn't it worth following his heart all the way? To be honest, I'd have a hell of a lot more respect for any of these guys if they'd throw personal AND political considerations aside and go all Roberto Rossellini-Ingrid Bergman for once and actually leave their wives instead of dragging everyone around them down AND going back home, tail between legs.
What I really love is how Sanford is not only willing to lie to his wife, children, friends and constituents, then still has the balls to ask the media to respect his family's privacy, like WE'RE the ones who did something HURTFUL to them. Really rich.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
The Sanctity of Marriage Officially Jumps the Shark
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Yeah, this is the FINAL straw. I don't want to hear another conservative a-hole preaching about the sanctity of marriage. That just isn't going to fly anymore.
I don't know anything about Jenny Sanford, but I was glad to see she didn't stand by her man at the embarrassing press conference. She stayed in the beach house which she is totally going to get in the divorce.
These guys aren't men, they are fricken low life cowards. I agree, if you've met the person of your dreams, have the respect and balls to break it off with the one your with for the one you want.
Sneaking around and lying is disgusting.
I really like Mark Sanford, and I'm pretty sure that if he were elected President or went back to Congress he'd be against a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, and would leave the issue to the states, which is where it quite frankly belongs.
And even having recently been with (and having an angry, bitter end to my relationship with) a guy who "couldn't decide" I still sympathize with Sanford, as well as his desire for privacy on the issue. It's his business what he should do about his marriage and his family, not ours (not to mention he admitted the affair to his wife, uh, five months ago. it seems more like he was sneaking around from the press). The same should be true for all celebrities, but whatever.
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