Adam Henry's Got Balls

My rant about Adam Henry is going to be cut short by a much timelier, but related, subject. The image we have of Jesus of Nazareth is one of a man much too polite to call anyone an Adam Henry, but that may be because we don’t understand the full meaning of ‘hypocrite’. The gospel accounts reveal a man not at all reluctant to call a spade a spade, of a man not afraid to point out the ‘sin’ of hypocrisy. The ball is presently in the Republican’s court with John Ensign and Mark Sanford confessing to extramarital affairs, but a report on NPR this morning rightly pointed out the bipartisan nature of what seems to becoming a characteristic of men in high places. The blade slices a little cleaner, however, against Ensign and Sanford because of their display of righteous piety that seems to come more easily to the Christian Right. Disparaging homosexuals, pro-choicers, and, in general, intellectuals as void of family values was shown as the blatant hypocrisy it is when these men violated the sacred bond of marriage. “Why do you attempt to remove the speck from your brother’s eye when there is a log in your own?” The real violation of this ilk is not just being human—which each and every one of us is—but the presumption of superiority based upon a particular ideology. If these men have an ounce of decency left in their wretched souls, they will resign from public office and devote themselves to the proposition that all men are created equal, even those who aren’t God-fearing Republicans.