Whoreable Behavior
That’s the title of Ann Coulter’s article about New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. By now, everyone should have heard the story – the up and coming Democrat Governor of New York (some said he was Presidential material) wasted tens of thousands of dollars on prostitutes and resigned.
Spitzer’s life is ruined. It doesn’t matter if he has defenders who will wail, “It’s his private life!” It doesn’t matter if he fights the charges. It doesn’t matter if this was a political prosecution. As Talleyrand said: “It’s worse than a crime; it’s a blunder.”
Eliot Spitzer, Harvard Law graduate and Fifth Avenue denizen, is forevermore: “Client No. 9.”
Surprising no one, police wiretaps indicate that the “models” were semi-literate, could not learn to swipe a credit card and seemed invariably to be on drugs. That’s what you get for $2,000 an hour in this charming business.
Behold the “victimless” crime of prostitution. Hard to believe these girls would turn to drugs. Having sex with strangers for money, nothing to live for … just thinking about it makes me want to take drugs.
It’s absurd to talk about Spitzer’s problem being “hypocrisy” – as if everything would be fine if only he had previously advocated legalized prostitution.
But beyond the basic case itself (similar stores being repeated among Presidents, Congressmen, and Senators), what does this mean for the Christian? What lessons should (must) we learn from Spitzer’s downfall?