When asked to describe himself with one word, Newt Gingrich chose “cheerful.” Jon disagrees.
“And that’s why I’m going to make Ron Paul my first ambassador to Moonlandia!”
I am glad…
… that people are looking into Newt Gingrich’s marital infidelities.
I am not glad, however, that they are using the opportunity to mock and vilify open marriages. Everyone’s talking about it like the idea of an open marriage is a despicable thing. It’s not. It’s a lifestyle choice that two (or more) people can openly and honestly enter into and be happy with.
Gingrich may have wanted an open marriage, but he was never in one. Sleeping around on your wife, and then proposing an open marriage when she finds out about it is not how it works, buddy. Obviously his wife at the time was not interested in it. So he left her.
It’s perfectly fine to criticize Newt Gingrich for attempting to assuage his wife by proposing an open marriage. And it’s perfectly fine to mock him for attempting to live this lifestyle, and succeeding at being a guy who sleeps around and leaves his wife for a new one when he gets bored while at the same time speaking out about how the values traditional marriage are under attack (especially while being the driving force behind the Clinton/Lewinsky investigation). That’s all fine. Hypocrisy is hypocrisy.
But it’s not okay to make a mockery of the idea of open marriage itself.
We’re starting to see a trend where homosexuality is becoming more and more accepted into society (even among conservatives). Some say it’s the last hurdle in the civil rights movement, but there’s another one very close to it, and that’s the world of open relationships, polyamory and the like.
One day it may be perfectly legal for two men or two women to marry anywhere in the country, but the chances of that also including three-person marriages (or four, or five, etc) is highly unlikely. Hopefully after one, the other follows shortly thereafter.
Take a test and guess whether the evil plot mentioned is that of a movie villain or Newt Gingrich. I got 70% on the quiz. Some of these things are pretty scary.
Jon loves Gingrich’s idea to mine the moon for minerals!
So voters leave Cain because they don’t like that he had an affair, and go to the guy who had two of them! I guess Newt Gingrich becomes the candidate for people who like Herman Cain, but think he was too monogamous.
Shepard Smith and the GOP Candidates. Looking forward to 13 months of these characters.
Romney, Perry, Santorum, Bachmann, Gingrich, Huntsman, Paul, Cain.
