Let me be perfectly clear.  I have little interest in the private lives of celebrities and other public figures.  I resent the way they are treated as news equal to events like the protests over the Iranian elections, the global economic crisis or the H1N1 virus.  I don’t think the sexual daliances of politicians or celebrities are anyone’s business outside the circle of family and friends immediately affected.

Unless, of course, the politician is one of those bent on regulating what other Americans do in their bedrooms or with their bodies.   Tennessee State Senator Paul Stanley is one of those.

He’s a solid conservative Republican and married father of two, who according to his website is “a member of Christ United Methodist Church, where he serves as a Sunday school teacher and board member of their day school.”…Stanley recently sponsored a bill designed to prevent gay couples from adopting children. And when a Planned Parenthood official recently sought his support for family planning services for Memphis teens, Stanley told her, according to the official, that he “didn’t believe young people should have sex before marriage anyway, that his faith and church are important to him, and he wants to promote abstinence.”

But Senator Stanley has

admitted to having a “sexual relationship” with a 22-year-old female intern working in his office, and to taking nude pictures of her in “provocative poses” in his apartment.

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works as a financial adviser for the Stanford Financial Group, whose founder, Allen Stanford, has been charged with orchestrating an $8 billion scam.

There are more delightful tidbits about Stanley’s life in the article from TPMMuckraker.  It’s rather Jerry Springer, in fact.  But you can read it there.

My point here is that once again this unbeliever finds himself quoting scripture to those “pious” souls who would regulate everyone by their own standards of morality.  “If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone.” John 8 1-11.  Or perhaps ““Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.” (Luke 6: 36-38) Then there is How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. (Luke 6: 42)

Or maybe just some good old fashioned fold wisdom.  “Practice what you preach!  (and what you want to compel others to practice, too!)