The Duggar affair
has put the Republican Cabal’s false righteousness and moral corruption
on display like nothing else in the past few decades. Every attempt to
whitewash the scandal
only exposes the bottomless abyss separating morality from the religio-wingnutst and their pet politicians.
Because there is no defense of the indefensible,
this should be enough, you would think, to sink their cause – their
claim to a moral high ground – forever.
When you see Mike Huckabee attack President Obama’s parenting while defending molester Josh Duggar, don’t you have to question Wingnut standards of morality? Add to this Huckabee’s condemnation of Beyonce while defending Ted Nugent’s lurid lyrics.
Supposedly the champions of an inflexible and
monolithic morality, the religio-wingnuts have instead proven themselves to be
champions of the most elastic moral relativism anyone could have
imagined: anything they do – no matter how morally and ethically
reprehensible – can somehow be reconciled to the Bible and forgiven. If
all else fails, the guilty party need only play the ultimate Get Out of
Hell Free card, “I found Jesus!” to walk away, reputation intact.
True crusaders against immorality would not hesitate
to condemn their own. Indeed, would they not hold their own up to a
higher moral standard? You would think.
Sarah Palin, whose daughter has had a child out of
wedlock while she preaches a morality that condemns sex outside of
marriage, still found it possible to accuse the left wing of hypocrisy in the Duggar case. She did not so much as bat an eye.
Worse yet, Sarah Palin supports abstinence
education, and Bristol herself, despite being living evidence of
abstinence’s failure, earned $262,000 as the Candie’s Foundation’s
abstinence spokeswoman,
reported the Associated Press in 2011.
The bible says of Bristol’s child, “Those born of an
illicit union shall not be admitted to the assembly of the Lord. Even
to the tenth generation, none of their descendants shall be admitted to
the assembly of the lord” (Deuteronomy 23:2). Funny how the religio-wingnuts, while condemning America’s moral decay, didn’t notice the decay in their own midst.
Bristol Palin, without batting an eye, joined her mother in accusing liberals of hypocrisy.
Time and again we have watched these champions of
“family values” exposed as hypocrites and frauds, with addictions to
porn, even to child porn, to prostitutes, same and opposite sex, to
mistresses on the side (sometimes in other countries), not to mention
corruption – from Michele Bachmann to Rick Perry to Chris Christie to Jeb Bush – all Republican pretender hopefuls who have more claim to a cell than to the Oval Office.
The varied and repeated displays of immorality by
Republican candidates, however egregious, hardly compares to their view
of women as nothing more than fertile chattel, who, amusingly, think
they’re actual people.
Not only do Republicans ignore biblical injunctions
against their own behavior, but civil injunctions as well, even those
set firmly in the United State Constitution. Somehow, everybody is
guilty but them. If they are caught, they are not guilty, but
persecuted. Victims of witch hunts, like those poor Duggars.
Nearly twenty centuries of destroying every
alternative to itself under its belt, and even while they try to strip
rights from women, gays, lesbians, and transgenders, to listen to these
self-appointed representatives of the world’s largest religion, they are
the ones being persecuted.
The persecutors are not the victims, no matter how often they try to play that card.
christianity has been persecuting all alternatives to itself for seventeen hundred years,
almost without let up until the Enlightenment. Even then, laws designed
to uphold some imaginary ideas of christian morality have repressed
various minorities, religious and ethnic.
No one can forget that the bible was held up as
justification for the enslavement of blacks, and that the same arguments
once used against blacks are now used against gays. Every biblical
injunction against a variety of equally egregious sins is ignored,
except that pronouncement against “homosexuality” and that passage may
not mean what the religio-wingnuts say it means.
All the other pronouncements of the Law of Moses,
however explicit, are ignored. The bible hasn’t so much been
cherry-picked as ignored. If “dog’s own party” has forgotten about
Jesus, they have also barely scraped the surface of the old testament,
from which they draw their fire and brimstone.
Displaying the ten commandments, which they do not
even intend to follow, is the ultimate act of hypocrisy for the morally
bankrupt Republican Cabal.
Those tablets are more an ancient billboard
advertising all the ways in which Republicans violate the Law of Moses:
they serve other dogs (jesus’ mammon, Matthew 6:24), they steal, they bear false witness, they commit adultery, and they covet just about anything you care to mention.
This is no longer christianity we are talking about,
folks, because let’s face it, you can’t have christianity without christ, and the white guy with the AR-15 is not a jesus anyone
recognizes.
RNC Chairwimp Reince Priebus has admitted the
Republican Cabal is a religion. But they have no real claim to christianity. They are in fact nothing more than a modern cult based on a
bizarre admixture of judaism and christianity, designed to give
religious justification for willful ignorance, bigotry, and bad
behavior, made worse by the same ugly ethnic nationalism that was the
core of Hitler’s National Socialism.
The Republican Cabal, if any actual Republicans
remain in its ranks, has two choices. Extract itself from the evil
represented by the religio-wingnuts, and return to civil governance, or,
like the religio-wingnuts, cease to be relevant and accept being replaced
by a more viable political movement. With the nation moving left, they might want to decide soon.
2016 looms, and America won’t wait forever if they decide at last to catch up from the thirteenth century.
