Since the Inerrantwordagawd says that consorting with harlots is an an “abomination” (Deuteronomy 23:18), shouldn’t each and every Christianist be picking up a stone and hurling it at Diaper Davey just about now?

Instead, the Vitters dump this steaming load of self-serving and sanctimonious crap right into the middle of the public square they keep yammering about. The presser:

[WENDY VITTER:] To those of you who know me, are you surprised that I have something to say? You know, in most any other marriage, this would have been a private issue between a husband and a wife — very private. Obviously, it is not here.

How far away those happy, innocent days seem when you guys spent $20 million dollars investigating a blowjob and concocting a perjury trap for two consenting adults who didn’t break any laws (as your husband did).

And now I’m going to speak to you as a mother and I hope you will understand. It’s been terribly hard to have the media parked on our front lawn and following us every day. And yesterday, the media was camped at our church — at our home, and at our church every day.

Boo fucking hoo. I’m playing the world’s smallest violin for you, Wendy. You guys are the ones who want the church in the public square, and then when the public wants to see who’s going in and out the church door, you whine about how “terribly hard” [snicker] it all is. You’re the ones who wanted the government in Terry Shiavo’s bedroom, and played political football with a dying woman’s body, and now you whine about your precious privacy?

[DAVID VITTER:] Wendy and I dealt with this personally several years ago. I confronted it in confession and marriage counseling. I believe I received forgiveness from God. I know I did from Wendy, and we put it behind us.

Apparently, for a Christianist going to confession and doing a little counselling trumps breaking the law, not just Deuteronomy 23:18, but state and Federal statutes, as well. Good to keep that in mind when we’re dealing with the rest of the Christianists in Bush’s criminal regime.

Since then, I’ve gotten up every morning [boo hoo], committed to trying to live up to the important values we believe in. If continuing to believe in and acknowledge those values causes some to attack me because of my past failings, well, so be it.

Didn’t The Onlybegottensonagawd have something to say about this? (Luke 6:42) But what we get instead from these guys is this:

“Values for thee, but not for me.”

And that’s the crux of the matter, isn’t it?

That’s the Christianist platform. Because the silence from these guys on Diaper Dave is rather deafening, isn’t it? Just like their silence always is whenever one of the Godly tribe is caught thieving, or lying, or abusing children, or torturing. Which constantly happens.

These guys are hooked on megaphonics and I, for one, would find less yammering about “values” from the Christianist perps and their leaders and enablers very, very welcome. (And while they’re at it, they could let all who love each other and want to be faithful get married. What a concept.)

But I don’t expect that any time soon.

Because it’s really all about generating a perpetual motion machine of authoritarian control, isn’t it? The behavior of the Christianists themselves shows that their “values” cannot be achieved. They themselves constantly fall short of them. (As indeed their theology tells them must be; Romans 3:23.) And yet, they want towrite their theology into law. So what happens? More and more violations. And the solution? More and more theology written into more and more law. Feh.

NOTE Personally, I’m with the Duchess who said “I don’t really care what people DO, so long as they don’t frighten the horses.” And Deborah Palfrey and her employees have certainly done a lot less harm to the country than the Bush administration, the press, or indeed the Christianist movement itself, which has made and will continue to make itself responsible for murdering many women by forcing their preganncies to term, all to save the precious blastocyst, and on very dubious theological grounds.

UPDATE More from WaPo:

Maybe the rodeo just left town?
Vitter’s Republican colleagues in the Senate arranged for him to apologize to them in private, just after the opening prayer at their weekly luncheon. As the senators filed in for the apology lunch, Candida Wolff, the White House’s chief lobbyist, detected an odor flowing from the room. “Smells like fish,” she reported.

Though they ultimately rewarded his contrition with a standing ovation…

So, why did the room smell like fish? Did the rodeo just leave Capitol Hill? Or maybe Mark Foley (R-Neverland) dropped off some jumbo shrimp?