Thus, for example, instead of holding a trial and weighing actual evidence on Bill Clinton, as the Constitution requires, the Republicans in the Senate took the "easy route" and let him off the hook.
History will judge all such decisions made for the sake of expediency.
I repeat: If a clergyman or teacher or anyone else abused a child and I knew about it, I wouldn't give a hoot in h*ll what the parents' "preferences" were. I'd blow the whistle.