Posted on 11/24/2017 7:39:20 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Before this month, Roy Moore was best known nationally for refusing to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the Alabama state supreme-court building. Now, the aspiring senator is accused of hitting on teens at an Alabama mall and inappropriately touching a 14-year-old girl.
These allegations may be the end of Moore. Congressional Republicans have started disowning him, and he’s tentatively dropping in state polls. But it’s possible that the reputation of evangelical Christians will also suffer. Despite condemnations from a number of nationally prominent Christian leaders and a few in Alabama, many of the state’s faithful continue to back the controversial candidate.
To outsiders, the support might seem like a stark contradiction in values. Even to insiders, it can seem that way. “I’m … bothered,” wrote William S. Brewbaker III, a law professor at the University of Alabama, in The New York Times, “by what Mr. Moore’s popularity says about the sorry state of evangelical Christianity.”
The Moore scandal is part of a long history of complicated sexual politics in the Christian world. In her new book, Moral Combat, the Washington University in St. Louis professor Marie Griffith writes about American Christians’ battles over sexual harassment, birth control, and gender roles. This fall’s wave of sexual-assault accusations has often seemed to echo the past, bringing to mind Anita Hill’s accusations about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Paula Jones’s allegations against former President Bill Clinton. Incidents like these, Griffith writes, all get tied up in the distinctive sexual politics of the Christian world.
The book—which covers much more than sexual-harassment scandals, including everything from Margaret Sanger’s legacy at Planned Parenthood to Alfred Kinsey’s obsession with clergy—comes out in December. Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
To liberals/progressives.
If you claim to be a Christian and struggle to higher standard and they can find one perceived fault - you should hide in shame and resign.
If you are a fellow liberal/progressive - there are ZERO standards so do what you want. No one will hold you accountable because you are not a “hypocrite”
But it’s OK to stand by Al Franken or Bill Clinton even after allegations concerning them are true, in contrast to the ones involving Moore. The Media Party should appear as the hypocrites, not Christians supporting Moore.
Judging people based on gossip doesn’t strike me as a particularly moral stance. Quite the contrary.
Pathetic, just pathetic.
“These allegations may be the end of Moore. Congressional Republicans have started disowning him, and he’s tentatively dropping in state polls.”
Classic Alinsky. Hold your opponent to a higher standard. But seriously, “ tentatively?”
He either is or isn’t dropping in the polls.
The Atlantic accusing anyone of hypocrisy is lol funny.
5.56mm
Christianity looks like hypocrisy to the outside world. The outside world looks lost to Christianity.
The outside world expects Christians to condemn sinners. Jesus said to the woman accused of infidelity, “Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more.”
Christianity does not condemn sinners. It forgives them.
Liberal media always pretends their ideology and propaganda are some kind of universal truths. They either can’t grasp or simply ignore the fact that most people find their garbage nonsensical.
Translation: “G*d d**n you Christians! I hate you all! And your little doggy, too!”
Is the Atlantic identifying as “the outside world?”
Anybody to the right of Stalin must be destroyed.
I learned everything I needed to know about leftist morality after they mocked Christians for praying after a leftwing Antifa atheist murdered a church full of Christians.
Why doesn’t the Atlantic call for Al Franken to resign? Why did Bill Clinton get a pass?
Getting President Trump’s MAGA agenda passed is more important to this country than what Judge Moore may or may not have done with teen girls 40 years ago. Jones will not be counted on to work with President Trump nor for that matter, will most of the GOPe.
The headline and ‘The Atlantic’ are all that is needed to predict most of where the write-up is heading.
Which outside world are they referring to? Mars?
It’s a little puzzling that liberals care so much about the morality of Republicans, when they don’t care at all about morals and ethics when it comes to other liberals or their own behavior.
(I jest. It is not at all puzzling.)
The party of Edward Kennedy are now experts at excluding candidates on personal grounds.
Oh please.
It is not like we have not seen these self same tactics used by the left in the past. Wait until just before an election and then make outrageous accusations.
Hey lefties, get a new playbook, the old one is not working anymore
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