Why this matters

Sen. David Vitter, a leading Christian Social ConservativeRepublican Senator David Vitter of Louisiana was not merely a supporter of last year's proposed constitutional amendment to "protect the sanctity of traditional marriages" by amending our Constitution to ban same-sex marriages, but he was one of its chief sponsors. And not only was Vitter one of its chief sponsors, he was also one of the nation's most extremist supporters of the amendment.

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

Yesterday, WAPO reported that Senator Vitter was in the phone directory of a Washington Madam. In a statement, Vitter says he confessed to God, his wife and has moved on. Oh, and he's sorry.

Really now.

Is this hypocritical? Is it hypocrisy to be a Senator from Louisiana and suggest that "I don't believe there's any issue that's more important than this one." It wouldn't be if that issue was protecting a broken state from another Hurricane. But of course, it isn't. That issue is the aforementioned amendment to the constitution prohibiting same sex marriage. I could give him a pass if he was from just about any other state. But he isn't. He's from Louisiana.

Now, one might think he he said those words before Hurricanes Katrina and Rita ravaged his state. This 'joke' shows he didn't:

In his statements at the luncheon, Vitter referred to the impact of both hurricanes on the Lafayette area. "Unfortunately, it's the crossroads where Katrina meets Rita," said Vitter. "I always knew I was against same-sex unions."

There have been many, many people who protest about the morals of the country whilst doing things a common citizen would find immoral. Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson courting the social conservative vote stand out. The thing is, I think I feel the most sorry for the people of Louisiana. With leadership like this, how will they ever fully recover?

Update:
In 2000, Wendy Vitter, wife of the guy above, told Newhouse News Service she could not be as forgiving as Hillary Clinton.

"I'm a lot more like Lorena Bobbitt than Hillary," she said. "If he does something like that, I'm walking away with one thing, and it's not alimony, trust me."

See, now I feel sorry for her too.

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