Will the electorate ever learn that financial morality is more important than sexual morality?
#1 Financial hanky-panky, unless it is something gross and obvious like embezzlement, is beyond the comprehension of most people and even those of us who are bright enough to understand it, probably won’t take the trouble to figure it out. (How many people really understand what all of those Enron partnerships with those neat names like Raptor actual did? Darn few I imagine!) But when you start talking about SEX you raised a topic that everyone understand and most people old enough to care about current events either engage in or think about in our culture. If people can understand the problem, they’ll get worked up about it! Since sexual hanky-panky is comprehensible to your average person, the issue can be exploited more successfully. #2 The history of Christianity, which is still the predominate faith in the US, has a history of swinging back and forth between the more nurturing, warm aspects of the New Testament and the more judgmental aspects of the Old Testament, which placed a m
