"Personal morality"

[supergee]

Jerry Falwell Jr. says that we shouldn’t judge the president by his “personal morality” (by which he means, as his kind always does, sexual morality). I think the blind pig has found an acorn. Trump’s politics should get him thrown out of office, and his business dealings should get him locked up, but the adultery is his business. Any political scale that ranks Richard Nixon ahead of Martin Luther King is broken.

Comments

[notasupervillain]

I don't have any problem with the adultery. I have a problem with the alleged sexual harassment and sexual assault. But that was described to me as the difference between the progressives and the Christian far right. I'm okay with almost anything two consenting adults do (with some barriers around the word "consent"). The Christian far right is okay with almost anything two married people do. Sometimes the Venn diagrams overlap.

[minoanmiss]

This, so much this.

(Honeslty, from my experience of the Christian Far Right, it's okay with anything heterosexual a man wants to do, the consent of the women or girls involved being irrelevant.)

[notasupervillain]

Women don't need opinions!