Wrong on the Left, Wrong on the Right

He was discussed as a prime 2012 Democratic presidential nominee. He built his career as the "Sheriff of Wallstreet" and used his office as Attorney General of New York as a bully pulpit preaching the gospel of a return to justice in New York government. He knew, better than others, that banks must report unusually large withdrawals of cash and requests to break it down into small transactions. He bragged about his extensive knowledge of wiretaps, and yet Eliot Spitzer, the Governor of New York, got caught on the phone negotiating his date with Kristen, a high dollar prostitute. This week he joined Bill Clinton, Gary Hart, James McGreevey, and a host of other high profile politicians involved in a sex scandal.

Time Magazine seeks for answers in brain chemistry--perhaps problems with his neurotransmitter dopamine, serotonin, or high testosterone levels with low monomine oxidase inhibitors. At the close of their article they suggest that perhaps he is not blameless. "Sometimes hubris is just hubris." (Time, March 24, 2008, P. 27) If he is morally responsible, then why all the talk about Spitzer's rich, aggressive, demanding father and his potential brain chemistry?
Karl Menninger, the famous Topeka psychiatrist, early in the seventies wrote a book titled, "Whatever Happened to Sin?" He argued against using psychology to excuse the evil that lurks within.

It's time to listen to the Apostle Paul's exposure of the roots of sin in Romans 1:18-3:23. It's time to stop thinking that his sexual ethics in Romans 1:24 ff are "obscure," hardly applicable in our progressive, informed society. The Left should stop teaching moral relativism at Princeton and Harvard. One of their graduates just slept with a prostitute, destroyed his career, and he will not be able to defend himself in court claiming he did nothing wrong. The Right should stop proclaiming only a select list of the deadly sins the Apostle claims will condemn us to death. The truth is that God condemns us all, and it is only when we accept His verdict (Romans 3:23) that we can begin to understand why there was a crucifixion on Good Friday and a Resurrection early Easter morning.

Things are wrong on the Right and on the Left, but Jesus' sacrificial death can make those on both sides right before God in the end if someone will humbly listen and believe.