i didn't do it...maybe

Indiana Republican Rep. Mark Souder announced Tuesday he would resign from Congress, effective Friday, because he had an affair with a staffer.

The eight-term congressman apologized for his actions but provided no details.

"I sinned against God, my wife and my family by having a mutual relationship with a part-time member of my staff," Souder said. "In the poisonous environment of Washington, D.C., any personal failing is seized upon and twisted for political gain. I am resigning rather than put my family through a painful drawn out process." (Associated Press)

A man under his own free will committed an adulterous act, and as he said against God, and is angry not because of his actions but due to the fact that as a politician he is to be accountable for being a hypocrite. He is pissed off because he thought what he did in the motel rooms; Holiday Inn’s on back roads and out of sight of the public is his business and his alone. It would be but...

The same man who made it clear that the Institution of Marriage should remain a virtuous opposite sex institution, who delved into my personal life as a gay man, who classified any gay or lesbian as less than equal who had the audacity to speak for God is now upset because the public is commenting on a public figures life. He is kind of sort of upset also because he was found out, not man enough to admit his sins on his own. He is a goon a coward, a bully and he is guilty of those same acts he has accused so many others of committing. Boo hoo!

VATICAN CITY - Dragged deeper than ever into the clerical sex abuse scandal, the Vatican is launching a legal defense that it hopes will shield the pope from a lawsuit in Kentucky seeking to have him answer attorneys' questions under oath.

Court documents obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press show that Vatican lawyers plan to argue that the pope has immunity as head of state, that American bishops who oversaw abusive priests weren't employees of the Vatican, and that a 1962 document is not the "smoking gun" that provides proof of a cover-up. (Associated Press).

So suddenly the Catholic Bishops scattered all over the world are not employees of the Vatican. Suddenly the Church is without authority or jurisdiction when it comes to the daily behaviors of Bishops and priests. Suddenly the all powerful Oz (the Pope) is seen as just “the man behind the curtain’, and really has no voice in the direction or discretion of those we just assumed he supervised. Suddenly the buck no longer stops at Rome and the holier than thou are hollering I didn’t do it.

So the Pope is just a dupe caught up in the messes of mere mortals and he is supposedly above the fray. The Holy See says that the Bishops run the ship, and if they did bad things it is no one’s responsibility but theirs, to clean up the mess. His hands are clean. (sounds like Macbeth).

I wonder if in his wiggle and worn out dance of not taking responsibility the Pope will then look the other way when his non employees allow same sex weddings or distribute condoms, or permit those couples who really never loved one another to divorce? After all they are ree agents aren't they?

The Vatican is a goon, a coward, a bully and guilty of immoral behavior and even more immoral acts by not taking responsibility for its actions. They speak as if they alone, have God’s ear, but listen not to one word coming down from the heavens.

How easy it is to condemn others, making them scapegoats, villains, and the evil doers, always pointing fingers toward them and never turning your wrist to point your fingers at yourself. How easy it is to abide by double standards laying blame for the ills of the world on anyone but you. How difficult it seems to be by those who swear their ethics, their values, their morals are better than yours to admit even a sliver of fault or misstep. How easy to feign hurt and insult when confronted with your own foibles and fallacies.

Most bullies cry when they in turn are attacked. Their bravery falls like pools of waters from a melting ice pack. They only know how to be on the offensive and swoon and shiver when the truth finds them out to be liars. Perhaps its time we introduce the goons, bullies, and cowards to the same dose of medicine they prescribe to anyone they fear and loathe. I know that spoonful of medicine would make me feel a whole lot better.