Chris Matthews:

"Even today Republicans out-poll Democrats on matters of "family values" but low and behold, despite their preaching, has the GOP reached critical mass on hypocrisy?" ...

It is just amazing to me how these Moral Majority leaders end up being guilty of the most immoral and criminal behavior.

Preacher and GOP Leader Pleads Guilty to Six Counts of Aiding and Abetting Prostitution

The president of a Christian right group in North Carolina has been charged with six counts of participating in prostitution. Coy C. Privette, 74 a retired Republican state legislator, Baptist minister, and current GOP county commissioner, subsequently resigned his post as president of the Christian Action League, a large statewide political lobby representing conservative evangelicals. Privette, a former president of the North Carolina Southern Baptist Convention, also resigned his current post on the executive committee of the state convention, according to the Associated Press.

From today's Raleigh News and Observer, another disgraced Republican politician is charged with paying for sex:

Coy Privette, a retired Baptist pastor, conservative lawmaker and outspoken advocate for Christian groups, was charged Thursday with paying a 32-year-old Salisbury prostitute for sex acts.

The 74-year-old Cabarrus County commissioner was arrested at his home in Kannapolis early Thursday.

More hypocrisy below the fold.

Over the past four weeks I’ve found myself questioning the foundation of the social conservative principals within the GOP.