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Chicanery

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Peccadillo: a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault

Chicanery: trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry: (b) a quibble or subterfuge used to trick, deceive, or evade: (c) the use of tricks to deceive someone usually to extract money from them
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Why is this even a debate?

Let's take first things first shall we. The private activities, personal likes and dislikes, and sexual orientation of an individual are the business of that person, their family, and their partner or partners. While many in our society today like to believe that they have the right to invade the personal lives of public figures and thus judge them, it is simply not the truth. The fact is that people, yes even public figures including politicians have the right to privacy and personal lives. The public doesn't have the right to invade their bedrooms or the choices that they make with regard to who might join them in their bedrooms; or for that matter how many might join them at any given time. Nor does the public have the right to entrance into the workings of their marriages and how they might choose to interact with their spouses (Bill and Hilary Clinton as an example).

The fact that we have come to believe, especially in the United States, that we have a right to entrance into our public figures personal lives. This is fiction created by our media. The fact that many believe that we have the right to judge others based upon a set of moral standards that are inconsistently applied for political and sometimes personal gain frankly is misrepresentative and is nothing less than immoral and in many cases unconstitutional. Frankly the media has created a feeding frenzy and the "Immoral Minority" has created an environment that is so contrary to the core teachings of the very religion that they claim to represent that the entire situation would be laughable if it did not make us, the United States, such a laughing stock globally.

Realistically what two or more consenting adults of any gender choose to do with or to each other is their business. How a marriage is conducted between consenting adults is the business of the spouses. As long as their actions or activities do not affect their ability to perform their jobs all other judgments regarding their Peccadillo's are irrelevant. A public figure is not required to suspend their own moral standard to serve in office and they are not required

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