... creed, and whose actions are out of step with their alleged beliefs. We don’t have to look very hard to find them — do we? — especially in the areas of politics and religion? Do you remember Eliot Spitzer? He was attorney general and later governor of the state of New York. As attorney general Spitzer led a zealous campaign against the commercial sexual exploitation of women, he received high praise from women’s rights groups for doing so. However, we have since learned that during that same time ...
... , though, our sins leak out. Our well-guarded secret is put on display for the world to see. We certainly remember the embarrassment of former New York governor Eliot Spitzer when he was caught engaging in prostitution. His hypocrisy is compounded by a speech he gave before the incident. In 2007, alluding to theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, Spitzer spoke words that proved to be almost prophetic, "Driven by hubris, we become blind to our own fallibility and make terrible mistakes."2 How ironic that he could ...
