[GrandMoM]

I'd say this article hits it rather close.

....this is the part of it I refered to;As Robert Reilly notes a society can withstand any number of person who try to advance their own moral disorders as public policy. But it cannot survive once it adopts the justifications for whose moral disorders as its own.

[RLK]

When society buys into the rationalizations, there is lost any basis for objection and society is in freefall.

Furthermore you run into the situation of the Clintons. Part if Bill Clinton's political power is based upon the fact that his election validated the life styles many people were living.