C'est Moi, Catie

The Locus of Moral Decay is… Tiger?

Does anyone remember Republican South Carolina governor Mark Sanford? You know, the one who left his post for five days to visit his mistress in Argentina? And told the quietly curious American people that he was hiking in the Appalachians? Well, earlier today, the South Carolina subcommittee created to investigate this situation decided that Sanford’s actions do not merit impeachment, per the SC constitution.

But wait a minute… last time I checked, lying about your whereabouts to your constituents (perjury?), lying to other governmental officials (obstruction of justice?), and leaving office for an unwarranted, extended period of time (abuse of power), were all offenses that are punishable by impeachment. Oh and not to mention adultery. But maybe the law has changed since 1998.

Excuse me if I’m being aggressive, or angry, but isn’t it people like Sanford who “cheapen” the “sanctity of marriage” when they abandon their wives and children for mistresses and ignore their familial and political duties? What about “American heroes” like Tiger Woods who find sleeping with a potential 10 mistresses to be nothing more than regretful “transgressions”? Is it the liberals’ fault that Larry Craig was caught with his pants down, or that Paul Stanley extorted a 22-year-old girl? How can we hand marriage AND political or social power over to people who fill the “tradition” of marriage with lies, cheating, and the squashing of good-old “family values”? And further, how can we let them get away with it? Especially when we condemn others for immorality before they even get the chance to let their children down??

The longer we make second-class citizens out of a potential 10 percent of the American population, the longer we cheapen the institution of marriage that is denied to them. It’s not American to give rights to only one class of people – and it’s even worse if we don’t punish those who clearly exploit those privileges we have given them.

When will liberals be satisfied? When second-class citizens are not created and perpetuated by elite majority legislation, and decidedly first-class citizens are not allowed to keep their plush social rungs in the face of “reprehensible,” “arrogant” and “indefensible” actions.