A Big Week For Hypocrisy

Whheeew. It has been a big week for the "Do As I Say, Not As I Do" Crowd. First, Bristol Palin, America's preeminent teen mother was on a morning show contradicting herself on whether teen abstinence is "realistic" and telling other teens to learn from her example while she cuddled her adorable new baby. Exactly what the message was here, we do not know.

Next Ms. California, who won conservative hearts by standing up for traditional marriage turns out to have posed semi nude and had her breasts enhanced at the expense of the Ms. California pageant.

Lastly, we have the sight of Miami Celebrity Priest Fr. Alberto Cutie (kew tee ay)cavorting and groping a brunette on a Florida Beach. Cutie previously hosted a radio show with millions of listeners in the US and Latin America in addition to heading a Miami parish. (He is reportedly the most handsome priest since Richard Chamberlin in the Thorn Birds. Well handomsest fake priest ... ).


I do not know what to make of this. I suspect Prejean of just being a hypocrite and an opportunist who got caught when her "old fashioned girl next door" schtick didn't hold up. Palin is a difficult issue because I suspect she is manipulated by her mom who has to constantly whip up her base of support. Cutie seems to have a legitimate love of his faith.

So are these just folks whose weakness overcame their own strongly held and professed beliefs? If that is the case, do you then have some duty to zip it up if you cannot walk the walk? Does this suggest that some of the beliefs professed by these people are not as legitimate (I say legitimate, not authentic) as they might have thought? Just because you fall short of your own ideal, is that ideal any less valid? Or maybe we just jump on these folks because we have an innate distaste for being preached to on the most intimate and personal of subjects?

Talk amongst yourselves.