This diary is intended for readers of RedState.com who might be over here to see how we're covering the Sanford affair. Regular readers of Daily Kos will not find this any more interesting than a diary telling you about how the sky is blue and things fall down instead of up. So feel free to move along while I have a word with the RedStaters.
I can't imagine the coverage of Mark Sanford's affair makes you feel very good. A recent hysterical and childish rant on your site screams at us that we don't get to judge Sanford for his adultery. But you know something? We're not.
We couldn't care less about Sanford's affair. It's none of our business. We hope the media leaves his family alone, and we don't relish their pain one bit. They have our sympathy.
Gov. Sanford, on the other hand, does not have our sympathy. Not because of his adultery, but because of his hypocrisy. You want the gloating to stop? Then get your fucking noses out of our bodies and our bedrooms.
I'm talking about marriage equality and equal rights for gay people. I'm talking about abortion. I'm talking about the utterly absurd waste of time that is abstinence-only education by the government (you can teach your own kids any damn thing you want).
You guys launched the second impeachment in American history because Bill Clinton lied about getting a BJ from a woman who was not his wife in an investigation about a land deal in Arkansas twenty years earlier that had already been shown to have no merit whatsoever. And you want to tell us we have no right to hold you to a lower standard?
As long as you guys think it is your business and your right to try to force the rest of us to conform to the sexual mores of your particular perversion of Christianity, you can expect to get your noses rubbed in it with relish and glee every time you show that you don't think the rules you want to apply to everyone else should apply to you.
In the meantime, go read Matthew 7:5. As soon as you start minding your own business, we'll be utterly delighted to stop minding it for you.
And for those of you who say that your anti-abortion stance is about saving human lives and not punishing sexual behavior... go take a gander at Exodus 21:22. You guys twist yourselves into unbelievable pretzels trying to deny that it says what it obviously says: that the loss of an unborn baby is treated as a loss of property, not a loss of life.
You don't like gay marriage? Don't marry someone of the same sex. You don't like abortion? Don't get one. You think the only thing kids should be told about sex is to keep it in their pants? Tell your kids that, but don't waste my money or my kids' time on that nonsense.
Once you do that, I promise we won't care who Republicans have sex with.
UPDATE: Rec list? I'm honored. I was just getting this stuff off my chest after reading that tantrum over on RedState. Thanks, guys.