Family Values

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MJT is getting divorced.

So is Boebart. She has a bunch of kids and is a grandma to be in her 30’s.

The former guy has had 3 marriages and the well-publicized dalliances with sexual assault (verified by the courts) and with a porn star.

Rudy has had a hell of a personal life, including marrying and divorcing a cousin, and is now being sued by an employee who is claiming that he made her work naked, and perform some truly horrifying acts.

And in the run up to the election we will hear all about how they cherish the sanctity of marriage and the good old means-nothing-when-they-say-it family values.

They don’t want gays to be married because marriage is sacred!

Meanwhile the divorce tally is through the roof over there.

And life is hard.

Marriages are a crap shoot.

Lots of people feel content to just bail when it becomes challenging.

When we were watching the Michael J. Fox movie we marveled at the strength of his wife, Tracy.

“In sickness and in health,” Tracy said when Fox told her of the Parkinson’s diagnosis.

I don’t normally involve myself in other people’s marriages and try to stay neutral.

But when you stand up and spout Bible verses and preach about family values when others have a different definition of love than you…

…well, I gotta’ call that out!

Preaching about family values when you’re married and divorced and having affairs and paying off porn stars is a tad hypocritical, no?

And then the Bible verses and the ‘man who has a strong faith’ crap really irks me.

There was a guy high up in the last administration who spouted about his mad passionate, love of the life of Christ…

…and every word out of his mouth was a cowardly lie…

…even when they tried to hang him!

Prayers to that family values party as they reconcile their divorces with their weird definition of what Jesus stood for.

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert are back on the market, fellas.

Isn’t that exciting?

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