An Issue
The Slacktivist points us to
this editorial from the Delaware News Journal.
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The sudden resignation of New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey is not only a political bombshell, it is also a personal tragedy involving bad choices and badly flawed judgments. The fact that he is homosexual -- or bisexual since he has fathered children -- is less of an issue than putting his unqualified gay lover on the state payroll.
Less of an issue, but still an issue. I'm not one who thinks that any sex scandals involving legal consensual sex should be enough to drive a politician from office, though of course for better or for worse they may be enough to cause voters to vote them out. One minor change would have made this editorial more than reasonable:
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The sudden resignation of New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey is not only a political bombshell, it is also a personal tragedy involving bad choices and badly flawed judgments. The fact that he is homosexual -- or bisexual since he has fathered children -- is not an issue. What is the issue is that he put his unqualified gay lover on the state payroll.
With one caveat - as far as I have seen, the timing of McGreevey's relationship hasn't been established (though I may have missed it). But, in any case, that wasn't the editorial they wrote.
Arianna Huffington
has some thoughts.
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