Let us talk about the political position: Sanctity of Marriage

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

What gets me with these humps in the GOP is the sheer hypocrisy of their position on issues such as "The Sanctity of Marriage"

Newt Gingrich lacks the moral character to serve as President, his second ex-wife Marianne told ABC News, saying his campaign positions on the sanctity of marriage and the importance of family values do not square with what she saw during their 18 years of marriage.

In her first television interview since the 1999 divorce, to be broadcast tonight on Nightline, Marianne Gingrich, a self-described conservative Republican, said she is coming forward now so voters can know what she knows about Gingrich.

In her most provocative comments, the ex-Mrs. Gingrich said Newt sought an "open marriage" arrangement so he could have a mistress and a wife.

So what's the deal here? Gay's can't marry each other because there is a sanctity issue? And Newt wants his vag, and eat it too?

How can anyone call themselves a member of the GOP, with an ongoing lack of effective leaders within the cabal? Which GOP nominee best fit your 'best candidate' scenario?

Speaking of....Even Perry can't exit a race without stepping in it.

Comments

[paedraggaidin.livejournal.com]

"Sanctity of Marriage" is one of those catch-all nonsense phrases that "family values" candidates throw around to whip their followers into a frenzy. It literally means nothing, when the people screaming so loudly about it:

1. Hate gay people with a religious zeal that would make an Iranian mullah smile, denying their civil rights and thinking of them as subhuman criminals. Santorum is merely the nastiest in this regard.

2. Are often less than sanctified in their own marital relations. Gingrich, for example, was carrying on an extramarital affair while he was wasting the country's time, energy, and legislative business impeaching the President for having an extramarital affair, something almost all Presidents have probably done, but which Clinton was merely stupid enough to get caught lying about. Gingrich later converted to Catholicism (a brand of traditionalist Catholicism, no less, that mainstream Catholics find repugnant) and was granted an annulment under somewhat suspicious circumstances so that his current (third) marriage would be recognized. (Note that I am not questioning his conversion at all, and I think he is sincere in his faith. I'm very glad he's become Catholic even if he's one of the nutty ones. But that doesn't change the fact that he's gotten special treatment WRT the annulment procedures, and I can't help but wonder if, had he not been a famous and prominent citizen, he would not have been granted one so easily.)

3. Blame the recent decades' decline of traditional marriage on gays, meanwhile Hollywood heterosexuals have been making an utter mockery of marriage for several decades now. The declines in traditional marriage has many causes (no-fault divorce, the sexual revolution, decline in influence of traditional organized religion), none of which has even the most tenuous connection to gays.