- Dothan Christianity | Examiner.com 08.04.2013
When you look at today's headlines, it seems all you see anymore is this politician or that one is involved in some kind of sex or corruption scandal. The latest news is about Anthony Weiner, and he's at it again
Two years ago, a sexting scandal destroyed Weiner's congressional career. Now he's back to exchanging raunchy messages and photos online; he admitted on Tuesday. Weiner is currently running for mayor of New York and is dismissing calls for him to step down from the race.
He was quoted in the Washington Post saying, "the campaign is too important to abandon over “embarrassing personal things” becoming public." At his news conference on Wednesday evening, he was booed as he took the stage to speak at a public housing meeting.
Then you have the mayor in San Diego, Bob Filner, who is being sued by an ex-aide for sexual harassment. The aide, Irene McCormack Jackson, was quoted in the LA Times saying that Filner created, "an intimidating and hostile work environment." Jackson had her attorney, Gloria Allred, file a lawsuit earlier this week against Filner.
The list of politicians who are involved in some kind of sex scandal seems endless. Chris Lee a congressman from New York responded to a Craigslist ad soliciting a man (who says he's a woman) for sex. Eliot Spitzer (D-NY), was forced to step down after a tryst with a prostitute, Eric Massa (D-NY) resigned under the cloud of a pending House Ethics Committee investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct.
These are but a handful of politicians who can't keep their hormones in check. The list of corruption scandals is also long. You have folks like Spencer Bachus (R-AL), allegedly involved in an insider trading scandal. Rep. Charles Rangel, serious incidents of corruption.
Attorney General Eric Holder was involved in Operation Fast and Furious which allowed guns to "walk" into Mexico. This scandal has resulted in numerous deaths including a federal law enforcement official.
In the 235 years of our nation's history there's been 115 members of the house and senate that have been involved in some kind of scandal. In the first 200 years there were 32 scandals but now get this, in the last 35 there has been 83 scandals. That's a 72 perecent increase over the first 200 years.
Most of the corruption is never discovered or even reported. It would appear that absolute power corrupts absolutely. Moral credibility is essential to leadership, what these folks don't seem to realize is that private and public character can never be separated.
John Adams, our second president, said the following:
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
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