Friday, May 13, 2011

Republican Candidate's Marriage Hypocrisy

I have been reading a lot about Newt Gingrich and Mitch Daniels over the last couple of days as they are both going to be formidable candidates for President on the right side of the aisle.  Gingrich officially threw his hat in the ring this week with a YouTube video linked from his official announcement via Twitter. He has claimed that the country is somehow going to be secular atheists run by Islamic radicals and is pushing Christianity into the public square at full steam.  He is a recent convert to Catholicism after marrying a Catholic has been seen as a move to re-make his personal image.  Gingrich has married three times, progressively committing adultery against current wives with his would be future wives.  Each time he has served divorce papers to ailing current wives, the first with uterine cancer, the second with newly diagnosed MS.  But with his new Catholicism he is keeping a hard line on social issues.  Apparently he wants to somehow save marriage from the gays, but has no problem destroying his own marriages. 
Next we move to Mitch Daniels... I am very interested to see how his marriage difficulties will play out in the press.  Not many Hoosiers know that he has been divorced. Why?  Well because he remarried the same woman.  It wasn't noted but this phenomena was recently discussed in this article. He wanted to call a truce to the culture wars on social issues, but the Indiana legislator has forced his hand.  He recently cut all funding for Planned Parenthood in Indiana.  So no inexpensive family planning for Hoosiers because a previously divorced man believes the organization to be morally corrupt.  My bet is that he would also do everything in his power to keep same sex couples from realizing the same state benefits he has with his wife.. and his wife had with that other dude out in California
I do not expect our politicians to be "morally pure" individuals, I do however have a problem with morally suspect individuals prescribing ideals in government.  They are proof that as humans we all fall short of some ideal, and therefore should realize that placing a subjective ideal as law isn't just at all.
They are both Christian, and  should know Jesus spoke MUCH MUCH more about divorce and said nothing of same-sex couples.  Perhaps they should realize then, that state marriage laws are about benefits, rights and responsibilities, not a religious ideal to be enforced.

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