INDISCRETIONS MY FOOT
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“Twisted serendipity aside, those looking for new insights into the man, or the reasons for his indiscretions, will come away frustrated.”
Won’t they ever learn? If you are inclined to kinky
“indiscretions”, don’t go into a profession where you are constantly in the public eye or hold a public trust.
That means you have no business being a “pastor” of a huge church, a governor of a state or a US senator, lines of work that have recently and memorably landed holders of such positions in hot water.
It’s similar to what happens when Wall Streeters get caught in financial scams of one sort or another. Almost every day, the financial pages of the print media have a story on someone “getting caught” for this, that or the other. The WSJouranl is particularly good at this.
What makes me laugh is that these jerks have a look of surprise (!) when they’re hauled off to the calaboose, like, you know, did they really catch me? Did I really do something so wrong?
As far as the quote above, the phrase “…the reasons for his indiscretions…” is really beyond the pale.
The REASON for his indiscretion is that this “man of God” deliberately sought out and practiced what he wanted. He knew very well what he was doing. It wasn’t like “the devil” suddenly filled him with evil urges or something. There is no “indiscretion” about it.
It would be more of an “indiscretion” if preacher-man had had sex with another woman. With another man? That’s not indiscretion….that’s looking into the gutter and happily jumping in. A “male prostitute”? Lemme repeat that: a “male prostitute”? Gee, that’s as bad as an “airport toilet”.
The other laughable thing about this sort of incident is that the “wives” are like totally “unaware” of any of this. It boogles the mind that you could live with someone for years, have their children and not be aware of this “dark side” of your spouse.
In the past, whenever I happen upon these turkeys preaching on TV, I’m left flabbergasted that people, by the millions, actually believe in, send money to and laud to the heavens these modern-day hucksters and snake-oil medicine men. You can tell just by looking at them, with their hysterical histrionics, their painted up and jewel-bedecked wives that the whole thing is an act.
If there was ever a “work of the devil”, these “parsons”, “pastors”, whatever you want to call them, are number one on the list.
Because this is a public forum, I have kept my language as clean as possible. Were we to discuss this in person, I assure you my delivery would be quite different and I wouldn’t “mince” any words.
