Lucianne has a link this morning taking you to the copy of the Sealed Complaint against, among other offenders, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. Though written in the terse, distanced prose of a court reporter, it's still pretty grim stuff -- kinda' like watching an episode of "Law and Order" on television, except you can't forget that this stuff is oh-too-real.It says an awful lot about American culture that a guy can get caught with his tailored trousers down the way Spitzer has and figure his political career can go ahead as normal. But after all, there's been a sad precedent established in recent times as other adulterous cads (L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, President William Clinton) show us that they can treat with pompous disdain social convention, moral consistency, the public trust, and their own marital vows and yet go about their merry way -- after, of course, the obligatory apology at a news conference. ("Yes, yes, I'm most sorry to my loving family for presuming on their trust. And I regret any other disappointment I may have caused. But we'll get through this. What? Of course, I'll be at my desk tomorrow. We can't let these purely personal matters distract us from the most important tasks; namely, to remain true to our political ideals as we build a fairer, kinder, more idealistic America.")
It is notable that Governor Spitzer, like the others mentioned above as well, compounds his sexual immorality by adding to his sins of adultery the support of homosexual marriage and abortion. Indeed, as spoken of here on Vital Signs Blog before, Spitzer is pushing hard for the most egregious, tyrannical abortion legislation ever. He is indeed a devoted servant of the sexual revolution. Accept no restraints whatsoever to the pursuit of carnal pleasures: not age, not bonds of marriage, not common sense regards for health and hygiene, not even the very lives of children.
It is sheer madness. Immoral, irresponsible, and destructive in the extreme. And no vague, surface apology at a news conference can make it go away.
