Yes, that is the Nevada senator’s excuse for why he won’t just pack it up and leave office. Sure, John Ensign voted to impeach President Bill Clinton for his White House oral activities, but when it comes to himself, he’s totally in the clear because he did not break any laws when he sexed a campaign staffer. Remember, Clinton lied under oath. Ensign just lied under his marriage vows. There is a difference, people. One can send you to prison, while another sends you to hell. Good thing we’ve got Ensign leading the charge for the sanctity of marriage.
“President Clinton stood right before the American people and he lied to the American people,” says Ensign. “You remember that famous day he lied to the American people, plus the fact I thought he committed perjury.”
The difference between he and Clinton, Ensign concludes, is that he was honest about his affair.
Qjersey
Adultery isn’t illegal…anymore.
30 years ago he would have been run out of office.
So you can now cheat on your wife, betray the ‘sanctity of marriage,” while claiming to protect it.
Peter
Not much to say; he is typical; he is a “moral promoting” christian bigot.
Fitz
Isn’t shtupping an employee illegal?
sal(the original)
amen!!hallelujah
Dick Mills
When he was calling for Clinton and then Craig to resign, he never once suggested that it was because of illegalities. He said it was because they had lost credibility. Now he doesn’t want to talk about losing credibility!
J. Porter
This flies, and gays cant get married.
Where is the logic?
Mick in Detroit
@QJersey….adultery is a felony in Michigan. It’s not the only state. Something like 25-26 states still have it on the books as a felony or misdemeanor. Enforcement is 0, but it’s still there.
schlukitz
@Fitz:
HaHa. Next, he’ll be telling us that God told him to schtup the campaign staffer.
ioni
We have become so flexible with mores!
One protects the sanctity of traditional marriage and has extra-marital affairs. Well, they are not illegal, so why not? This doesn’t change the stance on protecting the marriage!
If I would say that before Sen. John Ensign did, you would call me nothing but a bigot, right?
robert
@ioni:
The fact of the matter is, when someone maintains that marriage is sacred as well as the vows one takes, then deliberately and knowingly goes out and has a sexual relationship, short or long term, that is HYPOCRISY and should be called out on. How on earth can you say it isn’t just because its not illegal? Why does marriage need protecting and from whom? Same-sex married couples are hardly responsible for the high divorce rate, philandering and having children out of wedlock. That’s been going on for millenia, long before marriage was possible for gay people. The threat to marriage, assuming there is any, are people such as Ensign, Sanford, Gingrich, the defunct Hyde and other adulterers, including many democrats, not civil marriage equality.
Definition of a bigot is a person who is intolerant of or takes offense to the opinions, lifestyles or identities differing from his or her own while doing something that is in conflict therewith.
Mike Licht
John Ensign is a man of integrity. Everybody on C Street says so.
See:
http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/john-ensign-man-of-integrity/
schlukitz
@J. Porter:
People like this do not know the meaning of logic, ergo are totally incapable of producing a logical thought.
If people like John Ensign were capable of logic, they would be incapable of remaining Christians.
robert
@schlukitz:
I agree. Besides, religion is irrational, a deliberately chosen lifestyle at best. Nobody comes into this world as such, all learned behavior as is racism, xenophobia, homophobia, the latter mostly emanating from and advocated by the majority of the religious cults’ leaders and adherents.
schlukitz
@robert:
a deliberately chosen lifestyle at best.
That’s another one that always grabs me. They like to tell us that we have chosen homosexuality as a lifestyle (wrong), while deliberately overlooking the fact that it it theirs that is a chosen lifestyle.
Talk about spin-doctors?
robert
@schlukitz:
Yep, yet when you ask them when they chose to be straight, they’ll come up with a glib, predictable response…”well, its the way god made me, ergo “normal”. Its not really an answer because they’re actually avoiding the question,in fact its a total cop out. If you remove the religious and procreation component, the main reason why they oppose marriage equality for instance, and because they assume that all straights can breed which of course isn’t true for reasons of infertility, both male and female alike, they really would have a hard time coming up with a rational, logical answer. They dismiss that though, very conveniently, but then the majority of them are inacapble of anything rational or logical. They’re programmed, brainwashed that way for centuries and its not going to change. Few of them can think outside the box or see the larger picture. I’m convinced its a mental illness to go through life behaving that way, if anything, NOT NORMAL.