HYPOCRITES

1. Conservative gay moralist, Andrew Sullivan, likes to have promiscuous, unprotected sex:

Beyond the sensationalism of the “bareback” sex revelation, what was most jarring to people who’d received this information was the sheer incongruity between the public persona that many rightly or wrong perceive as Sullivan’s—conservative, moral, devoutly Catholic, marriage-minded, judgmental toward the sexual behavior of politicians and other public figures, and arrogant toward the ghettoized gay scene—and the person depicted on the sites, a gay stereotype more extreme than any of the Village People, someone very much in the gay sexual fast lane, all pumped up and describing his “power glutes,” ravenously eager to hook up but letting prospective partners know that “no fats, no fems” need apply.

This is quite a good article that not only indicts Sullivan as the evil hypocrite that he is, but also manages to give the lowdown on the state of AIDS in the gay community in 2003. BEWARE. This essay contains some rather graphic, but necessary language and ideas. Click here.

Thanks to Eschaton.

2. Conservative straight moralist, William Bennett, likes to gamble so much that he's lost $8 million dollars:

I have always considered Bennett a pompous fraud. I don't even like his looks. He is a reckless moralizer who has forgotten (if indeed he ever knew) the saying about taking the log out of his own eye before worrying about the speck in someone else's. Since Mr. Bennett cannot bear his own imperfections, and cannot change himself, he has decided he should change everyone else. He apparently never learned one of the first rules of a civilized man: mind your own business.

This gloating essay does a pretty good job of explaining how Bennett's fall from grace is about much more than any single individual. Click here.

Thanks to J. Orlin Grabbe.

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