by G. Emma Ryder

Created on: October 06, 2009

In the past days, the attention of the nation has been on the adultery that has been admitted and committed by a number of important people. The mind numbing articles on forgiving, explanations, desensitizing each of us to the facts. This is a core violation to the family, community and general public. No amount of consoling articles on manly needs and urges will change the opinion that it is wrong. The people of importance have chosen to violate their own solemn vows and oaths for a fleeting moment with an available partner. They have taken advantage of their position of authority or public office. They are unworthy of the trust. They have shown their inability to live to the standards that we as a whole expect of ourselves. They have failed to conduct themselves in a manner in which we have elevated them with our vote. They have dismissed our trust and confidence and are less than concerned of the consequences of their actions.

Their spouses are made to follow their adulterous partners into the gauntlet of public interviews to answer the most private, humiliating questions while onlookers chose to judge them all. The families get to be violated a second and third time by this crowd of onlookers who believe they have some higher authority to report the dirt and filth that these people of importance have chosen to make their families suffer. The children are subject to the same ridicule that they will face with other children, friends and complete strangers. Of course, the example of this behavior to the children mark them as well to another generation of promiscuous behavior in the rebellion of the stigma of their parents' transgression.

Abusers of their power and authority, they prey on their aides, colleagues and associates. Just as a school teacher has a responsibility to hold themselves to a standard of behavior so we expect of our politicians, police officers, judges, lawyers, doctors and any other people of authority, not to forget fathers and mothers. There is no excuse for this lack of ethics, morals and responsibility we are all subject to it . When we fail to live up to this standard, it is our families, friends, community and society that are made to suffer for these crimes against us. All any of us can say is it is a sign of the times that we face and a sign of our failure as a society to live to the standard that God has set for each of us. God's verdict for Sodom and Gomorrah was final, will our judgment be any less.

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