Posted on 08/12/2004 11:10:41 PM PDT by kattracks
[snip]So the issue goes far beyond Jim McGreevey's sexual orientation.
What's more, New Jerseyans — indeed, all Americans — have a right to be outraged at the job he chose for Cipel: Placing someone so plainly unqualified in such a critical position, post-9/11, is simply unacceptable.
Nor was Cipel the only dubious appointment McGreevey made. Indeed, the governor had found himself threatened by an expanding federal corruption probe that already has ensnared many figures close to him. Many Democrats were already looking to replace him in next year's gubernatorial race.
Even McGreevey's resignation timetable involved a tawdry dose of politics.
It's effective in three months, not immediately. That means there can be no special election to replace him, and his successor, State Senate President Richard Codey, can serve out his term.
Yet, if the disclosure of his affair leaves McGreevey unable to govern responsibly, shouldn't he step down now — or at least before the Sept. 15 deadline for a special election?
Again, McGreevey is doing the right thing by leaving office. He's also correct that this whole sorry situation could have been avoided. Yet the key problem wasn't his sexual orientation, hidden or otherwise, but the appearance of his having placed his lover on the public payroll and in a critical post.
"It makes little difference that as governor I am gay," McGreevey said.
He's right. But the sad fact is that McGreevey seriously abused his public position and his responsibility to the people he governed.
And that is why he had to resign.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Democrats cannot be trusted with protecting us.
Frank Hague, Hugh Addonizio, Harrison Williams, Bob Torricelli, Jim McGreevey, etc. Business as usual in Sopranostan.
It will probably help President Bush if McGreevy stays in office until November.
This I believe puts New Jersey in play for Bush this November.
"...doing the French Mistake!"
Oh? The fact that he was gay meant that he was willing to risk not only his own fate, but the lives of millions to support his degenerate predilection. That's a typically gay phenomenon. Homosexuals, by the very nature of what they do, are not to be trusted.
I thought the same thing. Like 'he's gay? so WHAT exactly? It's not like there aren't openly gay politicians already.'
I mean, I believe it's a perversion, and a sin, but since when is that a reason to quit politics?
So as usual, the news is being twisted to fit an agenda of the pro-gay lobby, and enflame the passions of those who would like to see 'equality' between gays in every way.
HE'S NOT QUITTING BECAUSE HE'S GAY, BUT BECAUSE HE'S UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR OTHER ILLEGALITIES!
And like the Post points out, he's quitting like a slime... in 3 months time, ruining the possibility of a special election.
I hope he can be pursuaded to leave earlier...
I don't see it that way. The people in New Jersey got the governor they wanted and deserved. New Jersey is a salwart liberal, democratic, state that has a minority of conservatives.
So, now, when the governor turns out to be a perverted crook, with a doormat for a wife, we're all suppose to pity the poor New Jerseyans? I don't think so.
Yes it does. It's no different from saying:
It makes little difference that as governor I am an adulterer.
It makes little difference that as governor I am an abortion supporter.
It makes little difference that as governor I am a thief.
In fact, sodomy is one of the few sins that "cry out to heaven for justice."
The Catholic tradition recognizes four sins that especially arouse God's justice, four sins "that cry to heaven for vengeance." The first sin is the murder of the innocent. After Cain murders Abel, the Lord addresses him saying, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the earth" (Gen, 4:10). The second is sodomy: "The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied, and their sin is become exceedingly grievous" (Gen, 18:20). The third is oppression of the poor, as we see in the oppression of the Jewish people in Egypt: "Now after a long time the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel groaning, cried out because of their work, and their cry went up to God from their work" (Exod, 2:23). The fourth is the defrauding of the laborer his wages: "Behold the hire of the laborers, who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, cries; and their cry has entered the ears of the Lord of sabaoth" (Jam, 5:4).
Oh, how right you are!
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