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How so?
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Pedophilia isn't correlated with political ideology. Can you show me some hard evidence that shows that it is?
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The fact that so many pedophiles are affiliated with one party reflects on that party's ability to assess its candidates' moral character...
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What's "so many" 45 out of how many Republican party members (and activists and so on) over many decades (taking as a first incident Strom Thurmond's illegitimate child)? The rate is miniscule.
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but the culpability for the pedophilia was solidly assigned to the individuals named.
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With their political affiliation rather prominent. What's the point of mentioning it, anyway?
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It is irrelevant to the criminality facet... but not to the hypocrisy angle.
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How much more evil is a Republican "Family Values" pedophile than a Democratic "Not Family Values" pedophile? What's the relative weight of the hypocrisy versus the pedophilia?
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Yeah, the mixture of religion and politics bothers me, too.
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And not just on the Right, either. Think "liberation theology" and Jesse Jackson. It's strange how liberals overlook liberal Christians (of whom there are plenty) when they denounce the admixture of politics and religion.