The “Horror” of Hypocrisy
I’ve come to the conclusion that the greatest “sin” that anyone can commit in America today is hypocrisy. Last week, it was a headline reading “Anti-Gay Lawmaker At Gay Club Before DUI Arrest” that was trumpeted all around the liberal blogs. I even saw it as a friend’s Facebook status update, with many comments saying, “Hahaha, look at this jerk, this just proves that he was wrong all along!”
Sorry, that’s simply not true.
Just because someone does something objectively wrong doesn’t make the action right all of a sudden. Nor does committing a wrong action mean that the principled arguments establishing the action as wrong are instantly false, either.
We live in a fallen world, where we all struggle against doing what we know is wrong. We have the power to choose to give in to temptation, or to virtuously resist. We can call upon God, the saints, and our friends to help us choose the right and do the good.
Ridiculing people who fall to their own temptations doesn’t make us better people than they are. It just debases our own humanity.
