President Bush solicited votes for his Republican stable as Election Day neared. He used the mantra of “traditional values”. Evidence shows many political and religious leaders who actively promoted such values fell. My Sunday morning paper had the piece right next to the fallen Rev. Ted Haggard, the hypocrite who spoke against evil while doing crystal meth and sodomizing a male prostitute. At least that’s what his employer concluded before dismissing him. Bush happened to be making his remarks in Colorado, the home state of the dethroned Haggard.
What happened to other bastions of “traditional values”? Ted joins Mark Foley (pederasty & alcoholism), Rev. Jim Baker (sex & fraud), Bill Bennett (gambling), Don Sherwood (sex & charges of physical abuse), Rev. Jimmy Swaggart (sex with prostitute), and Ralph Reed (influence peddling with Jack Abramoff).
I found a 1991 quote from a strong proponent of traditional values that is prophetic to say the least.
"There is a war waging in America. The battle is over values, beliefs and the cultural basis of western civilization.... the elitist avant-garde arts community uses the NEA to advertise and disseminate their political beliefs. The NEA then uses our scarce tax dollars to fund works which are intended to shock Americans into an acceptance of dysfunctional behavioral lifestyles and to destroy the family."
How did the Rev. Louis Sheldon know the head of the National Evangelical Association would shock America with his dysfunctional behavioral lifestyle while preaching against the very same behavior? What’s in Louis’ closet besides the ability to predict the future through demon magic?
Meanwhile President Bush and the White House skated away from Teddy as fast as possible. The weekly conference calls with White House staffers mentioned in Time Magazine and Harper’s now only happened a couple of times. And those visits to the President’s home, they only happened a Jack Abramoff sounding “one or two times”. Get the logs!
The Bush cabal must be hand washing and hand ringing at the moment. Every time I hear him talk about traditional values the word hypocrite will come to mind. After all he is the lead yell leader on that topic at the moment, what’s in his closet? Could it be an addiction to power, to force?
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