Posted by
Jay Noble on Tuesday, October 03, 2006 2:49:00 PM
The Eighth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament begins with the story of the woman caught in the act of adultery. Her accusers brought her to Christ and, noting that the law of Moses commanded a woman caught in the act of adultery be stoned, asked Christ what he believed should be done with her. Christ's responded that, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first." (John 8:7, NKJV) Upon hearing this the accusers left, each being convicted, as the Bible notes, by his own conscience. No one threw a single stone. The woman was discharged, with Christ admonishing her to sin no more.
It was a lucky thing for the woman that none of her accusers were Democrats. If their reaction to the conduct leading to the resignation of Republican Congressman Mark Foley of Florida is any indication, the poor woman would have been buried under a veritable barrage of boulders. Unlike the woman's accusers, the Democrats lack a conscience to restrain them from excess, and their zeal to use the Foley mess to destroy conservatives and Republicans has caused them to experience a collective amnesia about
their own past sins.
During the 1980's Congressman Gary Stubbs, Democrat of Massachusetts, was censured by the then Democrat majority in the House of Representatives for a homosexual affair with a House page. Unlike Foley, who appears to have limited his perversion to suggestive emails and disgusting instant text messages, Stubbs had an actual, physical affair with a teenage House page. Yet Stubbs did not resign his office; nor was the least apologetic about the affair. His censure by the House was the Democrats' way of sweeping the entire matter under the rug. Stubbs has been re-elected by his Massachusetts constituents ever since.
Also in the 1980's the lover of gay Congressman Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts, operated a criminal enterprise out of Frank's office. Frank claimed no knowledge of his lover's actions and continues to serve in the House.
Hearing Christ's words, the woman's accusers recoiled from their hypocrisy. Democrats find no such inhibition. They are a party which rejects moral absolutes and standards. They take great glee when a Republican or conservative is caught in scandal, particularly a scandal involving moral turpitude.
Democrats seem to forget that the danger with mobs casting stones is that invariably some of the rocks rebound on the mob. The Democrats are unwittingly revealing to the public just how deep is the depth of their desperation to regain the majority in Congress, how obsessesive their lust for power, and how contemptuous their view of the voting public, whom they belief can be distracted and manipulated this close to an election. The party without principle
reveals itself as a soulless predator, feeding off political roadkill, lacking conscience or conviction to temper its appetite for power.
Mark Foley was right to resign from Congress and the House leadership is right to pursue an investigation into his conduct. Whatever punishment Foley deserves under the law should be imposed. That is the position of conservatives and Republicans, people who believe in moral standards and personal accountability. However the Democrats, the party of Gary Stubbs and Barney Frank, have no right to cast any stones at Mark Foley, conservatives or Republicans.