"THOU HYPOCRITE, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye;
                                      and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye."
                                                  (Mark 7:3-5)

                         THOU HYPOCRITE

                               "Thou HYPOCRITE!" That's what Jesus said to the scribes and Pharisees. You say one thing,
                         and do another! - isn't that what the Religious Right is doing when they condemn the Left for the
                         very same kind of immorality that they practice? - only the Left does it out in the open and
                         boasts about it, while the Religious Right does it under the table and tries (mostly
                         unsuccessfully) to keep it a secret.

                               Isn't that what Newt Gingrich - who was for a very long period of time the "darling" of the
                         Religious Right - was doing during the Monica Lewinski affair: condemning Clinton for his sexual
                         dalliance with Lewinski while all the while he was carrying on the same kind of sordid affair with
                         one of his secretaries in the offices of the Speaker of the House of Representatives? This is to say
                         nothing of the shameful way Gingrich dumped his first wife, Jackie, in 1980. According to insiders,
                         Gingrich came to his wife of 18 years while she was hospitalized for cancer. He announced that he
                         wanted a divorce, and handed her a yellow legal pad with a list of provisions for handling the split
                         up; he then badgered her to sign the hand-drafted document; and after she did so, walked out on
                         her never to see her again. And what was it that she had done to deserve this kind of treatment?
                         Lee Howell, a former friend who had asked Gingrich to be the best man at his wedding in 1979
                         offered an explanation. According to Howell, "Jackie was kind of frumpy in Washington, and she
                         was seven years older than he was. And I guess Newt thought, 'Well, it doesn't look good for an
                         articulate, young, aggressive, attractive Congressman to have a frumpy old wife'."

                               And then there is the matter of Rep. John Livingston (R) of Louisiana - the former Speaker
                         designate of the House of Representatives and the author of the federal "Three-strikes law."
                         Livingston was "outed" for having a "love child." Livingston's supporters claim that his sexual
                         indiscretions were "ancient history," but the fact of the matter is, reporter Allan MacDonell
                         appeared on the syndicated television news show Extra and charged that Livingston's
                         "indiscretions" had continued well into the present.

                               And that's not the end of it. Take Rep. Henry Hyde (R) of Illinois. Hyde, another favorite of the
                         Religious Right, called his sexual faux-pas a "youthful indiscretion." Trouble was, Hyde was 46 at
                         the time he took up with Cherie Snodgrass - a married woman half Hyde's age who had three
                         children - often keeping her up all night and away from her children "nightclubbing." Fred
                         Snodgrass, Cherie's ex-husband, said of Hyde's seduction of his wife, "All I can think of is, Here is
                         this hypocrite who broke up my family."

                               And what about Rep. Dan Burton (R) of Indiana, another Religious Right favorite who had a
                         long-lasting sexual fling with an ex-model named Claudia Keller whom he set up in an apartment
                         and paid $40,000 a year?

                               Then there is Tom Delay (R) of Texas, another "dear" insofar as the Religious Right is
                         concerned, who is alleged to have had countless numbers of sexual encounters with prostitutes (in
                         fact, Newsweek Magazine is reputed to have in its possession a picture of Delay locked in a sexual
                         embrace with a Mexican prostitute), and who is also to be rumored to have a grown daughter not
                         by his wife.

                               And did any of these men come clean on their own accord? No! - not one of them! They were
                         all "outed" by Hustler Magazine's Larry Flynt. In other words, they were "forced out into the open."
                         Their professed shame resulted not so much from their sexual peccadilloes, as it did from being
                         caught. AND MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT, NONE OF THESE MEN ARE OBSCURE
                         "NOBODIES!" THEY ARE ALL EXTREMELY PROMINENT POLITICAL FIGURES STRONGLY
                         SUPPORTED BY THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT! Moreover, every single one of them has campaigned
                         on a platform of "moral values."