Posted by
Playful Walrus on Sunday, June 28, 2009 12:22:20 AM
I do not excuse the breaking of marital vows. But have you listened to the marital vows? Having sex with someone other than your spouse is just one of many, many ways people break marital vows every day. Again, I do not excuse cheating on your spouse, but we don't really know what has gone on behind closed doors. Sometimes... SOMETIMES... not necessarily in any particular case in the news lately... the spouse being cheated on has already broken the marital vows in some serious ways - even if none of those ways included sex with someone else.
Unfortunately, we often find out about sexual contact with someone else, because there are so many people involved. And because we, as a society, are obsessed with sex. That's why there are strip bars, prostitutes, "adult" media, and the term "sexual harassment", when there are so many other ways to harass someone that are not given their own name.
Some people cheat because they are lousy people. Some people cheat because they react poorly to being wronged. Either way, cheating is wrong. But sometimes, the other spouse is also to blame - even if it is just for picking the wrong person to marry.
We need politicians who do not have something to hide, something distracting them or that can be used to blackmail them. We need politicians who can be true to their family obligations.
Are they really so hard to find?