You can't argue for universality of human rights and dignity, bash Islamists for promoting child marriages, and for basically treating women like property (except when they are needed for propaganda), and then go and claim that 40 years ago Alabama culture permitted much older men to molest teenage girls (despite the laws to the contrary) and that it's perfectly ok and not at all creepy. If it's creepy when your political opponent does it, it's creepy when your guy does it as well. Just sayin'.
One of the issues that really bothers me about this whole thing with Moore is how easily the public has created double standards. The same religious Christians who are all up an arms for the horrific Islamist cultures that have no regard for women or for individual rights are completely nonchalant about allegations concerning Moore so long as they can score a political victory. Well, if in your cost-benefit analysis, a 2-year Senate seat outweighs any moral considerations, that's certainly up to you, but you will have lost any right to sit in moral judgment of other people and the nasty or blatantly illegal things that they do. And expect me to question the defenders of Moore every time they express outrage about Hollywood pervs who are accused of doing similar things, which are likewise from long ago and at this point, unprovable. No, I don't expect politicians to be saints. I do expect their supporters to have enough intellectual honesty to hold themselves to the same standards they expect of their opposition.
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