Who do you have to sleep with to not get a top rating from the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family?

Apparently philandering and being accused of beating (and strangling) your mistress isn't enough to get the political arms of the religious right's Family Research Council and Focus on the Family to drop you as a favored candidate.

FRC Action and Focus on the Family Action have given rave reviews - an 85% positive rating - in their latest "Voter Scorecard" to Rep. Don Sherwood (R-PA), who not only admitted recently to having a five year affair with a woman not his wife (five years folks, this wasn't just a one-time indiscretion), but what's more, Sherwood's mistress has accused him of beating her for five years and frantically called 911 claiming Sherwood had just attempted to strangle her in the midst of one of their romantic trysts in his DC love pad.



The list of issues the FRC and FoF looked at in deciding who was a good "pro-family" member of Congress were: abortion; gay marriage; the pledge of allegiance; stem cell research; abortion again; defunding the ACLU; and gay marriage yet again.

FRC and the FoF had enough room on their scorecard list to include abortion and gay marriage twice, but they couldn't include adherence to the Ten Commandments even once? Adultery is a pretty big sin in the Bible, and I'm sure it's not a big stretch to find some Biblical admonition against trying to kill your mistress.

This is why I have a big problem with the religious right, and especially with groups like the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family. They're a bunch of hypocrites. They want us to believe that they're not a bunch of hate-filled homophobes who simply use God to cloak their bigotry and intolerance, but when push comes to shove, they'll embrace a serial adulterer and a man accused of beating a woman for five years, as if it were a simple traffic violation.

Normal people of no faith would be repelled by someone accused of beating a woman for five years. Yet the self-proclaimed keepers of the faith couldn't give a damn.

I have one question for my friends in the religious right: Who would Jesus beat?

Then again, even an admitted child predator approaches a respectable 50% rating from God's self-anointed messengers:



And don't even get us started on this guy: