Posted on 08/26/2015 11:03:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
Last week, Internet criminals responsible for hacking the adultery website Ashley Madison released full records of those who registered to use the service. The media began perusing the list -- and naturally, the first major name to hit the media was Josh Duggar. The media busted Duggar several months ago, too, when they released information that the former "19 Kids and Counting" reality star had molested children as a teenager.
What makes Duggar's infidelity noteworthy? The fact that he purported to be a religious Christian. In his adulthood, Duggar became executive director of Family Research Council Action, the legislative wing of the traditional family values promoting Family Research Council. He spoke frequently about traditional morality and traditional marriage.
The left media finds Duggar's hypocrisy on sexual morality absolutely delicious. The execrable Dan Savage, supposed anti-bullying icon, said that while he generally opposed "outing" adulterers from Ashley Madison -- after all, adultery is a natural part of marriage, according to doorknob-licking Savage - that standard doesn't apply to advocates of Judeo-Christian morality. Savage wrote, "I feel bad for everyone who has been outed by the Ashley Madison hackers -- everyone except Josh Duggar. ... Duggar -- demagogue, liar, political operative -- was a legitimate target for outing." Why? Because, Savage stated, quoting Evan Hurst of Wonkette, "he tried to hurt lots of people, because of how they have sex, which is why it is 100 percent A-OK to take this information and use it to grind that arrogant, fundamentalist pr---'s nuts into a fine powder so that we may snort it up and trip holy karmic balls."
Delightful.
One of the great problems with modern American political and moral discussion lies in our hatred for hypocrisy above all other sins. Adultery, according to Savage and his anti-moral moralists, isn't a sin; rather, preaching against adultery and then failing your own standard is the great sin. But that makes all standards irrelevant. This logic sets up a perverse moral system whereby those without standards freely pursue whatever activities they choose, while those with standards are destroyed for their sins. The result: rational people choose to embrace amorality, secure in the knowledge that without standards, they will never be held to account. Bill Clinton can allegedly rape a woman and sexually harass several others, and he will never feel the wrath of the left: he does not promote sexual decency. But Newt Gingrich will never hear the end of his affair with Callista Bisek because he had the temerity to question Clinton's sexual peccadillos in the Oval Office.
The war on hypocrites isn't a war on sin: it's a war on standards. Josh Duggar may be an evil human being, but his evil springs not from the standards he attempted to preach, but from his failure to meet those standards. The left's backward obsession with Duggar shows their true hypocrisy: They violate all of their own standards in order to target someone with a different set of values. They are against outing, unless they want to utilize it to fight their enemies; they are in favor of adultery, unless it's convenient to use adultery as a club against their opponents; they're against sexual judgmentalism, unless they can use sexual judgmentalism to bash those loyal to Judeo-Christian beliefs.
Josh Duggar deserves to pay for his sins, and pay richly. He's vile. But those who fight against basic standards of morality don't have any moral authority to act as the agents of that judgment. For such jackals to play at such judgment smacks of the same hypocrisy they condemn.
Biden’s son used the site as well. Blamed it on a political dirty trick.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hunter-biden-denies-ashley-madison-account-belongs/story?id=33301506
I still wanna know how people are stupid enough to think a guy from a 19 kid reality TV family in the modern era was a choice for a leader. Forget what he actually did.
What EVER qualified him to run a national org to begin with?
Ashley Madison, escort service pretending to be a dating site.
It has nothing to do with a person’s integrity and capability. It’s all about how effective they are at helping the organization raise money.
And thats a problem when your reason to exist is as a pro family/morality group.
The only way you can violate standards is to have some to begin with. Granted, Josh Duggar is a hypocrite and I won’t defend him. But while he betrayed his moral principles in soliciting adultery, at least he had the principles to betray. Unlike say, Bill Clinton, who is every bit as adulterous (and a liar besides) but had no principles to violate.
Which is better, immoral or amoral?
Just because he had an account on there doesn’t mean he committed adultery. He doesn’t look like he’s all that or anything.
I found it very strange that of 35 million “accounts” on that website, that the first one that became a news story was this silly person.
And like others on this thread, I have no affection for Josh Duggar, who is a lot of very rotten things, hypocrite least among them frankly.
But still, 35 million accounts, and that’s the first one that’s a scandal?
Nothing qualified him to be a lobbyist. He’s just a kid from small town Arkansas who had no particular qualifications for the job.
Qualifications were probably considered that he was on a popular TV show, so he could be a rainmaker.
That’s because this is who the liberals in the media decided should be outed. They are probably sitting on hundreds of prominent names right now, many of whom are liberals.
I still don’t understand why Josh simply doesn’t proclaim himself to be bisexual. His every act would be then courageous by definition and they would have to restore the series with a huge pay increase.
Al Gore’s Fault!!!
Damn the internet!!!
Full CHEAting AHEAD!!
RIG for contact!!!
Ouch!!!
Funny how that is, huh.
Patience. FaRTBLossom!!
Many more ‘revealings’ will follow..
And his group paid dearly for their situational ethics.
And that they know a buttload of the emails are government I.E. TAXPAYER FUNDED emails but none of those names were made public knowledge.
His dad was a po;politician in Arkansas?????
Darned spellcheck! politician
I wondered that myself! A friend of mine discovered her husband has an account there!!
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