For a long time now — stretching back at least as a long way as political scandals within the ’80s and ’90s, and perhaps further back than that — many cultural observers were quick to try to separate someone’s private life from their public character and overall performance. Yes, a person may make no longer-so-great (or blatantly immoral) picks at the back of near doors. But he’s the sort of extraordinary actor! He’s the sort of first-rate athlete! She’s this kind of super-musician!
The underlying message: If you’re gifted sufficiently, a man or woman doesn’t, in reality, rely upon. You can do something you need, and you don’t need to play through the setup policies. Or, in some cases, the installed laws.
But I wonder if we’re ultimately starting to reevaluate the foolishness of that cultural stance. From the Lance Armstrong doping scandal several years ago to the modern-day #MeToo movement, the concept that the wealthy, well-known, and successful can do illegal and immoral matters with impunity appears to be eroding. It seems private adulthood and decency do depend.
This is an unprecedented moment in that I find myself agreeing with something from Focus on the Family. A character has to count numbers, regardless of your career; even supposing having a bad individual doesn’t necessarily affect your potential to do your job well. Bill Cosby‘s comedy has to be reconsidered given his sexual assault conviction. Harvey Weinstein‘s films need to be re-evaluated, given what he did to actresses.
It’s curious, then, that the call Donald Trump doesn’t seem anywhere within the put-up. Maybe that’s due to the facthat t that eighty-one % of white evangelicals voted for him, and Focus on the Family doesn’t need to alienate its base.
Even if the non-earnings church doesn’t officially recommend applicants or doesn’t represent the organization anymore, Focus founder James Dobson is an ardent Trump supporter. As far as I’m aware, no blogger at Focus has taken the time to put greater distance between themselves and the company’s contemporary values.
Nor are they very “mature” approximately problems; they’re flat-out wrong about them. They continue to promote gay conversion therapy even though there’s no medical backing for it. They sell “faux information” testimonies of so-called Christian persecution inside the United States, which many a Snopes article has disproved. Maturity entails correcting you’re beyond your mistakes. When has Focus ever apologized for all of the harm it’s brought about and lies it’s unfolding?
