“not a proper subject of inquiry”

. . . this appears to be an accusation of private, alleged consensual conduct between adults – a subject matter which is not a proper subject of inquiry by the media or the public. No individual, whether a private citizen, a candidate for public office or a public official, should be questioned about his or her private sexual life.

Lin Wood, speaking on behalf of his client, GOP presidential candidate and family man, Herman Cain.

 

The thing is, I actually agree with this sentiment.  Do I think it’s scuzzy that men on the left and the right can’t keep it in their pants?  You better believe it.  I find them disgusting. I wouldn’t want to be their wife or their girlfriend. 

 

I don’t give a shit who is doing who. Honestly, I don’t. 

 

And as I have said to my husband more than a few times over the years, Do you think your private sex life should be a condition of your employment? Do you think it would be right if your boss called you into his office one day and demanded to know if you were having an extra-marital affair, and that if he found out you were having an affair that he had the right to fire you? What does that have to do with your ability to do your job? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. That would be between you and me. Your boss has nothing to do with it, UNLESS said affair affected the quality or security of your work.

 

I would much rather Herman Cain be judged on his abysmal lack of knowledge, experience, and his habit of throwing out the race card any time anyone dares challenge him. I don’t want this to be what sends him out of the race. I want the voters to look at his record (none), his ideas (bereft), his knowledge of anything outside his Tea Party talking points  (“Uzbekibekistanstan”  “. . .  Libya . . . um . .  .”) and judge him accordingly. Put him in Santorum territory, ya know? 

 

But here’s the thing.  These are the very people who have made it their mission to peek into the bedroom of every person in America and who flagrantly scorn the very teachings of the god they profess to follow.

 

In other words, I have had it up to my teeth with the religiosity and false morality of the Republican party. 

 

I am sick of these assholes who holler about GOD! and JESUS! and who moan about the unborn while cutting poor children off food stamps and health care.

 

I am sick of these panty-sniffers who scream for “abstinence only” sex education and who would force a woman to bear a child she neither wanted nor was able to care for, but will deny her the very birth control that would prevent her from ever having to consider that hardest decision of all. 

 

I’m fed up with people who keen about the sanctity of life but cheer at the death penalty and whoop it up at the thought people dying for lack of health insurance.

 

I’ve had it with those who willingly send our sons and daughters to die in a land faraway and refuse to acknowledge the innocent lives snuffed out by our bombs and drones.

 

I’m pissed as hell at these “moral” people who ignore their Jesus’ admonition to visit the poor and the sick and who call us thieves or wanting a hand out because we want to make sure that no one dies in the gutter and that anyone who needs to see a doctor can do so without risking her livelihood, her home, or her life savings.

 

I am sick of a morality that brays that all the ill that befalls anyone is their “own damn fault”  and that the rest of us are under no obligation to lift a finger to assist them.

 

So, fuck you, Herman Cain. And fuck that faux morality that you came riding in on.