Paying Attention

I’m sure JC Penny knew what they were getting into when they announced they’d hired Ellen Degeneres as a spokeswoman.  Predictably, a homophobic Christian group — this time an online crew called One Million Moms — has announced a campaign to boycott JC Penny because their members “have values.”

These are the same Christian Right-types who showed their values recently in the GOP debate in South Carolina.  The moderator questioned Newt Gingrich about his ex-wife’s statement that he had asked her for an “open marriage” SIX YEARS after he had already started sleeping with future wife # 3.  This would be the same Newt forced out with an ethics scandal in the Congress — campaign finance laws and money laundering,.  (Here he is heading into the House Ethics Committee hearing where he would be voted guilty by members of both parties.)  This would also be same Newt with a multi-million dollar paycheck from the very folks who destroyed our mortgage markets, a career of wrecking every governmental institution he’s been involved with, and more stones thrown at more glass houses than all the other amoral hypocrites I can think of combined.

So what did Christian-type voters do in South Carolina when they had the chance to show us their moral values?  They cheered when Gingrich dodged the ex-wife question and blamed the media for asking it.  The “liberal media” are apparently more offensive to these people than a serial adulterer, liar, hypocrite and cheat.  And so is a company which hires a decent woman with a clean comedy act and scandal-free life who happens to be lesbian.

This is “moral values” so twisted as to be obscene.  It’s time we named aloud where the real pornography is in this country.