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Originally Posted by Type941
The question is about his hypocritical view. He is for the sanctity of marriage yet his own record on that is quite patchy. So it's completely fine to question him on that, given that how he made it his campaign to preach certain conservative values. Newt gets offended - big deal - as polician he should take it on the chin; instead he goes all righteous on CNN (a cable news channel I don't like but that's beside the point).
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Your spouting fallacies. His "sactity of marriage" is about homosexuality - and he doesn't have any "patchy" record of soliciting gay sex in a bathroom or any other such activity. What your trying to do is tie that stance in to his personal act of adultery that ended in a divorce over a decade ago. He has admitted his error and asked for forgiveness.
There is a huge difference between a personal moral failing which one recognizes, admits and repents of - compared to a demand that everyone else change their morals and that society accepts an arrangement that has been rejected for the history of that society.
Trying to equate them is true hypocrasy.
Of course - your next arguement will be over him pursuing Clinton regarding the Lewinski scandal..... Again - not going to fly. The issue with Clinton was not that he was committing adultery - I thought Lewinski was cute and I'd have done her - it was his lying to both the American people and his perjury (lying under oath) that was at issue. Not the adultery itself.
Had he pushed for impeachment due to adultery - that would be one thing - but when the President swears to tell the truth - and doesnt - in a legal proceeding - then the actions of the Congress was both right and appropriate.
So many want to confuse the issues to make Newt look bad. Adultery is not a crime - perjury is. Simple as that.
Newt has his issues - if you want to beat on him - do it on one of the real issues, not some trumped up "moralistic" charge. Especially when its meant to turn off evangelicals - who should be responding with "who are you - or I - to judge another man's private life? That is not our role".