re: #50 reine.de.tout

Some people scream when a conservative or a Christian commit a moral blunder, but are full of forgiveness and understanding if the person doing it is identified as a liberal.

That’s a fair point. But I think there is an important point to be made here:

I tend to criticize people who do things that lie outside their stated moral framework. If you’re a person who believes that people screw up but generally deserve second chances, I’m going to look a lot more kindly on your peccadilloes than if you’re a “one strike and you’re out, throw away the key” type of person.

To put it another way: if you’re really into the “defense of marriage”, you’re going to look like an enormous tool when you’re found to be screwing your campaign manager’s wife.