Twenty years ago this January, we cats were wringing our paws over the then-newly exploding Monica Lewinsky story. We remember learning that she was over 21 and feeling vastly relieved about that.
So maybe we should become Republicans, because clearly molesting children is not a problem for the GOP — at least in Alabama. In their frantic defense of Roy Moore, they're reaching for fanciful Biblical stories of super-old-fogey guys shacking up with young women to produce the two leading men of the Gospels, John the Baptist and J.C.
Are we detecting an insidious undercurrent of pedophilia in fundamentalist Christianity? We think we're kinda sophisticated, generally, so how is it we missed stuff like this?
Back here on Earth, where religion should have nothing to do with public policy and the only thing that matters is the rule of law, it's not surprising that these Neanderthal Republicans are excusing Moore's alleged behavior with an underage girl. They're already unfazed that he flouted orders to remove his silly Ten Commandments monument from Montgomery's judicial building and refused to obey the Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality. Why should they care about the rights of a vulnerable young teenager?
Some in the GOP, though, are putting their money where their mouths are. The National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee just booted Moore's campaign from a joint fundraising agreement. Maybe the NRSC should consider Louis C.K. as a substitute candidate instead? After all, he's man enough to admit that the sex charges against him are true. We cats PURR.
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