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MORAL QUESTIONS

Gallup today:

A recent Gallup Poll finds 92% of Americans agreeing that having an extramarital affair, such as the ones South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford and Nevada Sen. John Ensign have confessed to, is morally wrong -- making it the most objectionable of any issue tested.

So I guess he did get his crank caught in the wringer.

I am surprised about the percentage. It is very high.

I think that it is about the implications for public service. Lying, duplicity, hurting others, self centeredness or egoism.

It would be interesting to see what poll results would be for a normal man or woman not in public life. What would people think of their stepping out on a spouse? What would the presence of kids introduce?

I have lived through some of this I can tell you that the closer you get to the reality the more the moral ambiguity. Especially if you are the perp.

The fact is that the incidence of marital infidelity is very high in this country. I speak from experience of friends who have had to deal with it either as the perpetrator or the perpetrated against.

You probably will not be surprised to hear that there is also gay infidelity in gay marriages and partnerships. I mean those in which monogamy is agreed upon. In legal marriage, monogamy is a given by definition. That doesn't mean that people act accordingly.

So I wonder what the disapproval rating was for McGreevey, the NJ governor who transgressed with a man. I wonder if a homoerotic dalliance is as disapproved or more. Certainly the shock value is more for the heterosexuals who assume that the only gays are already out and cavorting around shamelesly.

Certainly no married man could be gay, right? Wrong, of course.

It is all very interesting to me.

The main ingredient for my outrage here is the moral hypocrisy. This guy is one of the fringe right who condemn gays and gay marriages and defends so called family values for a living. Now that is a matter for outrage. These double dealers are hurting others every day for what they are doing on the sly themselves. Horsewhip them.

Labels: gay marriage, gay politics, politics