Are you
sitting down? Because this may come as quite a shock: Another anti-gay stalwart
and "defender" of marriage has been caught in a marital mishap.
Now, I’m
not a marriage counselor, but I feel pretty confident dolling out this advice:
if you’ve been married for 20 years, and are, in fact, still married, you
should probably not go to a right-wing Christian conference with a woman who is
not your wife, share a hotel room with her, and introduce her to your
right-wing bros as your fiancé. That’s just, well, tacky. At best. At worst it’s totally hypocritical bullshit,
though that is, as we’ve seen time and time again, par for the course.
Alas, this
warning comes too late for Dinesh D'Souza, a right-wing author and media
darling and his mistress, Denise Odie Joseph II, who not only share a
philandering bed but also share odious views about marriage equality. A match
made in Heaven, obviously. Well, at least a Heaven that has nothing to do with
the "thou not commit adultery" thing.
All of this
sexy scandal stuff came out right after D'Souza accused President Obama of
aggressively "attacking the traditional values agenda."
"Why is
Obama on the social issues — and I’m thinking here of abortion, I’m thinking
here of gay marriage — why is Obama so aggressive in attacking the traditional
values agenda?" D'Souza asked. "I think this is the problem, Obama doesn’t like
traditional Christianity because he identifies it with colonialism. Obama’s own
Christianity is more of a Third World liberation theology, a very different
kind of Jeremiah Wright type philosophy, summarized in the idea that America is
the rogue nation in the world."
Got it? He
hates traditional because he hates Christianity and he hates Christianity
because he hates white people. The End. Amen.
Did I
mention that D'Souza is one of those "birther" nuts? He’s got a "book" and a
"film" – and I use those terms skeptically here – about Obama that’ll make a
great gift for anyone you know who is totally racist and disconnected from real
life.
D’Souza,
who cheated on his wife in a flagrant way at a conference about living with
Biblical principles or whatever, also lamented about the state of this
country’s morals and spirituality.
"I think
that the deepest problems facing America and the West in the end are not
political, they are spiritual," he said. "This is why it makes sense even as we
debate policy issues, even as we debate moral issues, to turn to the maker of
the universe, this maker of the universe that isn’t just an absentee God like
Obama’s dad, a kind of absentee father who got things going and then took off
but a God who cares about each one of us and certainly about our country."
Aw, snap!
No he didn’t! No he didn’t just call Obama’s dad a God-like deadbeat. Oh, but
he did. Because he, Mr. D’Philander, is so much better, so much more moral than
some guy who contributed chromosomes to create the President of the United
States.