No, sir, this does not concern your current wife, once your congressional aide, with whom you carried on an illicit affair in the House of Representatives.
Nor is it about your second wife's recent statements about your wanting to continue being married to her while you carried on an affair with that congressional aide.
It isn't about the time or place you requested a divorce from your first wife, or why you let her and your children go hungry in an unlit house while you romanced your second wife.
I've heard plenty of details about those marriages, and wish to hear no more.
It isn't about your views about marriage between people of the same gender. Your thoughts on vagaries of morphology and orientation do not interest me.
I just want to be sure you and I share the same understanding of the mechanics and significance of getting married.
From what I know, when a man gets married, he stands before his friends and family, important visitors and a representative of God (as he understands God) and takes an oath. It is an oath to remain faithful to his partner, to sustain and defend his partner and place that partnership first before all others.
It is the most solemn oath most men make, binding in the eyes of the law, society and God.
It is an oath you have sworn, standing before your near ones and your God, three times. At least twice, that we know of, it is an oath you broke when it suited your desires of the moment.
Now you ask the citizens of our country to place you in the position of ultimate administrative power over them, to trust you to sustain and defend the Constitution that binds us all into one nation. Should we choose you for this position, you will stand before us, before your friends and family, important visitors and representatives of the law--and God--and swear an oath to do so.
My question, Mr. Speaker: why should Americans trust you to keep that oath?