I love Nancy Giles’ opinion pieces on CBS Sunday Morning – and this video where she takes Bishop Eddie Long to task didn’t disappoint.
It all began with Giles taking politicians to task, chiefly, Newt Gingrich, who acted all offended during Thursday night’s Republican debate when CNN reporter John King asked him about his ex-wife's charges of unfaithfulness.
“She says you asked her, sir, to enter into an open marriage,” King stated.
“I am frankly astounded that CNN would open a presidential debate with such trash,” Gingrich went on to assert, getting on his high horse, and causing no-doubt similarly guilty men to stand in the audience and applaud atop their high horses as well.
Gingrich went on to blame the “elite media” for giving President Obama a pass on certain issues, and that’s what set Giles off.
“I work in television, which is ‘the media’ -- and we get blamed for everything,” she states in the video. “When the media is used as a smokescreen, I have a problem with that.”
Me too, Nancy, me too. Don’t kill the messenger for reporting on any bad behavior said reporting exposes. Blame the bad behavior!
“You signed a marriage fidelity pledge, but you had a 6-year extra-marital affair. Isn’t that hypocritical?” Giles asked, saying that should have been the question King lobbed at Gingrich.
And then she lit into Bishop Eddie Long…
“There are religious leaders who aren’t much better,” said Giles, turning to the continuing saga that is the Eddie Long case.
(Follow me on Facebook for updates to Bishop Long's divorce and other Christian news, by the way.)
“Georgia mega-church pastor Eddie Long -- a righteous opponent of gay marriage -- was accused of having sex with four young men. Let’s just say he settled out of court,” she said.
Whilst I don’t necessarily agree with Giles assertion of protecting abortion rights and allowing marriage between members of the same sex (in fact, the former issue was one I just thought to myself would be the only way Obama could lose my vote, though I voted for him in 2008) I do agree with stopping the hypocrisy.
“And if you guys will stop the hypocrisy, I’ll forgive you,” she declared.
At least I’ve been learning in my Christian lessons that sometimes it’s just best to Let it Go and move on and forgive, even when folks don’t ask for it.
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