It seems to be just second nature to the scripture cherry pickers to give a pass to any reprobate that merely has to mouth some platitudes compatible with their mindset, regardless of how incongruous and outrageous it looks.
And the converse is just as galling too, someone of impeccable conduct (by their lights) is nevertheless damned in their eyes if they dare have a public policy thought outside of their comfort range.
That self described 'good little Catholic boy' Sean Hannity has nary a qualm about being a lickspittle to all manner of politicians who in their personal lives are leading, as the his pope would say, essentially disordered lives, on his fucking TV show all the fucking time. Yet he freely criticizes folks outside his political comfort zone all the time regardless if they are, by his own lights, vastly superior morally to the ilk and champions of cultural rot and moral decay he nevertheless parades before the rest of us as 'good' examples of how things ought to be.
And the converse is just as galling too, someone of impeccable conduct (by their lights) is nevertheless damned in their eyes if they dare have a public policy thought outside of their comfort range.
That self described 'good little Catholic boy' Sean Hannity has nary a qualm about being a lickspittle to all manner of politicians who in their personal lives are leading, as the his pope would say, essentially disordered lives, on his fucking TV show all the fucking time. Yet he freely criticizes folks outside his political comfort zone all the time regardless if they are, by his own lights, vastly superior morally to the ilk and champions of cultural rot and moral decay he nevertheless parades before the rest of us as 'good' examples of how things ought to be.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.