I sincerely hope Tom Coburn pays a dear price for his involvement in the Ensign affair.  These C Street sleazes should be tarred and feathered for their hypocrisy.

 I read the book about “The Family” a few years back. I could understand their twisted sense of Christianity, their evident hatred of anything that smacks of socialism/communism or how Yahweh wants power in the hands of strong men to do his “divine” will.

But what utterly terrified me about these people is how they justify it. If you’re in a position of power, then Yahweh put you there, and therefore nothing you do is wrong. Want to have sex with a woman like David did with Bathsheba? Go for it. Be a dictator and kill your people? According to the Family, clearly Yahweh wanted you to do it.

Everything is justified under these ideas, and it’s exactly the “I am good because I am good and what I do is good because I am good” attitude that lead to people like President Bush declaring that “When the United States does it, it isn’t torture.”

Evil is evil no matter who does it. And when people like those in the Family cloak it under religious justification, it makes us all (even the nonbelievers like me) the poorer in spirit for it.