Another Evangelical running for office has invoked "the
Billy Graham rule". Robert Foster, a Republican running for
governor in Mississippi, has declined a female reporter's suggestion she go for
a ride along with him as he campaigns across the state because of a promise to
his wife that he would never be alone with another woman. If the female
reporter brings a male escort, he would cheerfully accommodate her.
Vice President Pence invoked the same rule a few years
ago. It was a bogus gesture then, and continues to be again. Both Pence and this upstart Foster give the
impression of piety in front of the flock.
And that is fine and may indeed play well in Mississippi. But with the morality platform of the
Christian Right now flushed down the toilet when they embraced Trump, well,
Foster’s token gesture for the media comes off as laughable as anything Trump
has done.
Piety it appears is something malleable and fluid when a
Right Wing Thumper utilizes it. They
wear it when in public like Joseph wore his Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat.
Keep it ‘tween the ditches ……………………………………..
_________________________And BTW - I hear the musical "Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat is quite popular among Christians of all shapes. I wonder though how the "rainbow" motif used in some shows goes over with the stiff backed Old Testament types.
4 comments:
Mike:
I am in agreement with you.
If a guy cannot control his penis and mind and cannot be trusted to be in a space with another person (male of female or trans).... then how in the living hell would that person be an appropriate candidate for public office???
Seriously, if that is a concern of his wife’s, then their union is on shaky ground as far as I am concerned. He should not be running for dog catcher either.... with his edict, I think dogs and sheep should be damn nervous as well.
PipeTobacco
In Saudi Arabia, they have (or had) the same rule about an unrelated man and woman sharing the same space, as in offcie space. Not allowed. Maybe these days they're more enlightened, but probably not.
I think these people are sexually constipated.
the Ol'Buzzard
arghghghg, them fucking people...
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