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LONG BEACH (gorewon2000.net) February 3, 2001 -- Political conservatives have succeeded, along with the media, in turning "sin" into sex, and sex alone. We are through the looking glass, and it is time to demand some perspective.
Much has been made of Bill Clinton's legacy, and the impact the Monica Lewinsky affair, and the impeachment, will have on it. Much has also been made recently of the sexual transgressions of Jesse Jackson and Willie Brown. At the same time, the non-sexual transgressions of Bush and Cheney, and their nominees, have elicited little comment.
It is time to move the media and conservative definitions of "sin" out of the bedroom, and into reality. Ask yourself, "Which is worse?":
Cheating on your spouse, or arming foreign governments, who use those weapons (paid for by the American people) to violently oppress their own citizens -- primarily women and minorities?
Cheating on your spouse, or remaining willfully and negligently silent during a public health crisis, facilitating the infection and death of millions of people, not only in your own country, but all over the world?
Cheating on your spouse, or attempting to burgle and bug the offices of your political opponents?
Cheating on your spouse, or conducting a telegenic war that leaves no time to accept the surrender of enemy soldiers who were forced to face you, under penalty of death?
Cheating on your spouse, or arranging for the continued captivity of American hostages abroad, for political gain?
Cheating on your spouse, or deserting your National Guard Unit during wartime -- an assignment of low risk, that you obtained though exertion of influence, rather than personal excellence?
Cheating on your spouse, or slandering your political opponent, a former Prisoner of War, by accusing him of being mentally unfit, and of having given aid and comfort to the enemy that held him captive?
Cheating on your spouse, or financing illegal foreign operations that lead to the deaths of Americans, through the profits made from drug smuggling?
Cheating on your spouse, or exhausting every political avenue open to you to win an election, even if that means disenfranchising voters?
Cheating on your spouse, or giving away a federal budgetary surplus produced by payroll taxes primarily to your rich benefactors and contributors, rather than to those citizens whose taxes created it?
(And leaving the subject of sex for a moment, "Which is worse?":
Stealing the "W" keys off of computer keyboards, or stealing the hard drives from the actual computers themselves?)
HOW DO WE WIN?
We win by broadening the discussion of morality beyond sex. We win by demanding that other transgressions, especially those that affect the lives of many, and offend the very values upon which our nation stands, receive the same level of media scrutiny and commentary as more trivial matters.
When someone expresses their outrage at matters sexual, broaden their perspective a bit. You will be doing a public service.
STEP 5: PROVIDE EMOTIONAL SUPPORT
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