Gay reaction to Edwards. Ouch!

[cboy4]

Hypocrite Edwards admits to affair

John Edwards admitted (yesterday) that he had an extramarital affair with Rielle Hunter and repeatedly lied about it during his presidential campaign this past year. He told ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff that his wife knew about the affair in 2006 when it happened, and that her cancer was in remission at the time.

Edwards has repeatedly said in the past and during his 2007-08 campaign for president that he does not support marriage rights for gays. Let's also not forget about when he called gays "those people," referring to how he is uncomfortable around "them."

The point is that Edwards, for some reason, sees marriage as only fit for a male-female partnership, but shit all over his own when he cheated on his cancer-stricken wife (who does, in fact, support gay marriage and is an amazing woman). The hypocrisy is unbelievable sometimes.

PROLLY PREACHING TO THE CHOIR I KNOW, BUT OH, THAT PARAGRAPH IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT.

http://www.washingtonblade.com/blog/index.cfm?blog_id=20243


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[marmar]

1. That hurts....and I like John Edwards a lot, but that's a legitimate criticism....

n/t

[roguevalley]

26. anyone who messes up their own marriage is automatically

disqualified to talk about ANY marriage from then onward.

[renie408]

2. Yeah....infidelity is probably a lot more damaging to the institute of marriage

than gay marriage.

[stevietheman]

7. Probably, Captain Obvious? :) n/t

n/t

[renie408]

9. I live in the southeast, I get to hear "Gay marriage endangers the

holy institution of marriage" a lot. Seriously, half the cars in the car rider line at the school have those 'man plus woman equals marriage' stickers on them. Ick. So, yeah, it might seem obvious to you and me, but I get to interact with a lot of people who can't seem to see that.

[mnhtnbb]

3. It definitely hurts to know that I gave money to just another hypocrite.

Edwards' relationship with Elizabeth was one of the things I admired about him. When he used his Baptist upbringing to defend his discomfort with the concept of gay marriage, it bothered me.
It suggested that he wasn't ready to really think through things. Boy, did he not think through
things when he got it on with this other woman.

[yardwork]

17. And yet he didn't let his Baptist upbringing stop him from adultery.

Last time I looked, the Ten Commandments don't say anything about being gay, but they are pretty clear on adultery and lying.

[mnhtnbb]

27. Yes, hence my comment that he's just another hypocrite.

[Whisp]

4. ouch is right. so John, marriage is between a man and two women, right?

or maybe three?

[frogcycle]

5. yeah, pretty much spot-on n/t

[predfan]

6. IMO, here's the political problem. The average American voter understands sex.

They really have to think about more subtle, but more important things, like Iraq, energy independence, and health plans. Rather than assigning the Edward's affair a place in the big scheme of things, it just automatically moves to the top of the list, smothering far more legitimate stories which actually affect our country.

I feel bad for Ms. Edwards, and I appreciate her efforts to keep their marriage together. Place this saga along side that of John and Cindy McCain, and see which one smells worse.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

12. i agree that in general this is the problem but people who cheat on the SO

are really in no position to judge my morality

[dsc]

8. I am so sick of politicians calling me immoral

getting caught having affairs and then being told it is none of my business.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

10. thats the first thing i thought. i remeber when he fumbled in an interview

about whether being gay was immoral.

[undeterred]

11. When he said he is sure the baby isn't his,

he said its because the affair ended too long ago. Notice he doesn't say- ITS BECAUSE I MADE SURE I USED A CONDOM WHEN I WAS CHEATING ON MY WIFE. So he was risking the possibility of passing an STD onto his wife, who was battling cancer. PIG.

[DevonRex]

16. Let's hope that he was just taking the possibility of a broken

condom into account when he said that.

[DevonRex]

13. I completely understand this reaction to the news.

John's stance on marriage only being between a man and a woman, and then taking his own vows for granted, is just not good. There are so many heterosexuals who take the right to marry for granted while denying it to homosexuals. Maybe this scandal can make people view the gay marriage issue in a different light. If so, perhaps something good can come out of it.

[yardwork]

14. Yes, I was thinking about that yesterday.

I can't really be any angrier with John Edwards at this point. I just want to forget about him. I want him to go away and never remind me of his existence again.

[donco6]

15. The whole thing is disappointing, disgusting and hypocritical.

What's that old verse? "He who is without sin, cast the first stone." We can debate over whether Edwards ever cast a stone, but he was obviously thinking about it. And at the same time as he was having his own "sinful" affair.

:wtf:

[yardwork]

19. None of us is without sin, but politicians are in a position to codify their beliefs.

I was disappointed that Edwards doesn't support marriage equality and clearly has some issues with gay people. If he were a private citizen that would be one thing. But as senator he was in a position to make laws, and if he had been elected president or vice-president he was in a position to influence the nation's laws and people's beliefs. He ran to be the country's leader.

Therefore, his hyprocrisy is all the more grating.

[donco6]

20. Yes, exactly. And I really thought he was better than that.

Well, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

God, that's actually starting to make sense.

[yardwork]

21. I know! Isn't it terrible?! lol

[OneBlueSky]

18. what surprised me was that, when hearing the news, I wasn't surprised at all . . .

guess my view of politicians is so jaded that nothing any of them do surprises me . . . and Edwards is, after all, a politician . . .

[jonnyblitz]

28. I wasn't surprised either. Apparently this was common knowledge

in DC amongst the "movers and shakers" for quite some time but nobody wanted to come out and say it until now. Like you, I have the jaded view of politicians EXCEPT I don't make excuses for the Democrats when they do it like so many of the HYPOCRITES do here.

[libnnc]

22. I defended him and was so patient with his so-called "journey"

on the issue of gay marriage. Was thrilled and grateful when Elizabeth disagreed with him.

Fuck him all to hell.

What a stupid, selfish, fucking hick he turned out to be.

That's right, I said hick. He's a goddamned lying, no-classed hick.

And I hope he's satisfied with the shame he's put on his poor parents. Those folks deserve so much better.

[defendandprotect]

23. Edwards wants to be considered only human . . . ? Then give that same

consideration to everyone else --- including homosexuals who also feel the same way

about their partners as straights do -- about their families, children, lives . . .

as we do!

[Bluenorthwest]

24. The unmitigated gall of that wee twerp Edwards

His hypocrisy and hubris are stunning. And he has no remorse and no regret. None. He ran any way, taking money and time from good people, he has not apologized to the GLBT community for being a big liar and using us to prove his non existant respect for 'marriage'. Those who really feel badly make attempts to correct the wrongs they have done. Edwards is not doing any of that. Two years of lies and pointing his adulteruos finger at gay people.
Here is the qoute from the biggest hypocrite I have ever seen. When he said this, he was cheating on his sick wife, leaving his family at home to rut with some woman he barely knew. And yet, he paints himself as some moral arbiter, some holy pure upholer of traditions...

John Edwards answer to why he does not support marriage equality:
"Because I’m 53 years old, and I grew up in a small town in the rural South, I was raised in a the Southern Baptist church, and so I have a belief system that arises from that. It’s part of who I am. I can’t make it disappear."

Can't make it disappear, indeed. The unmitigated gall of this liar, this cheat, this bearer of false witness.

[cliffordu]

25. That kind of hypocracy deserves beign run out of political office, the sex does not.

[ZombieHorde]

29. Very, very true.