For us conservatives, of course, the weakness is to try and wrap ourselves in the flag when we’ve screwed up…that doesn’t work for liberals quite so well. And, so, Weiner is now “ill” and needs “treatment – from the New York Post:
Weiner’s pulling out — for a little while, at least.
Serial-sexting Congressman Anthony Weiner headed off to rehab and will seek a leave of absence, as Nancy Pelosi and other Dems demanded he quit following his admission to sending private Twitter messages to a 17-year-old girl.
Weiner’s office said the randy rep left this morning for “professional treatment,” and will take a leave of absence from the House as he tries to become a better family man…
What a crock. And what a sad spectacle. The poor man is twisting in the wind and doesn’t seem to realize that he’s just making it worse.
I know that Weiner is not Catholic, so he cannot avail himself of Reconciliation (what you out there know of as “Confession”), but the basics of it can be done, even if not as a sacrament. What Weiner needs to do is confess not to “errors of judgment” or of “bringing pain to my wife” or “disappointing my constituents” but to being a sinner. It goes like this – “I confess to Almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have sinned through my own fault, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and in what I have failed to do”. That goes on a bit more but it gets pretty Catholic after that point…but, you get the picture.
We all screw up – I’ve got a whole list of reprehensible things I’ve done that I wish I had never done and pray God I never do again. But the longer you go without saying “I did wrong” without any excuse-making, the worse it gets. Confess the sin and beg forgiveness and even though it remains a badge of shame while you live in this world, it doesn’t pile up…it becomes a lesson, not a stepping stone to perdition. I understand Weiner’s point of view – he’s done wrong but doesn’t want to surrender all he’s built because of it. Too bad – and, in fact, it is better for him to surrender it. He can build it back – not exactly as he hoped, but perhaps better than he ever dreamed…if he gives up the defense of his sins and just gets rid of them.
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