Sex scandals have bubbled up though the murky currents of American politics of both the left and the right, but theyâ??ve always been most outrageous when theyâ??ve involved Republicans, especially the Bible-thumping, evolution-denying red-staters of recent decades. After all, the assumption prevails that such Republicans, being so ostentatiously pious, really ought to behave the way the Good Book tells them to.
But such an assumption rests on grossly false premises â?? that the â??Good Bookâ? is actually good, that it offers pleasant, morally edifying tales, that it strictly ordains temperance and chastity, and that the undeniable, if unoriginal, wisdom encapsulated in the Golden Rule â?? â??All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to themâ? â?? is, well, the rule and not the exception.
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