{"id":3258,"date":"2009-06-24T22:57:58","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T02:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3258"},"modified":"2009-06-24T23:00:46","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T03:00:46","slug":"on-the-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/24\/on-the-mount\/","title":{"rendered":"on the Mount…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Exclusive: E-mails between Sanford, woman<\/a>
Woman in affair declines interview
The State
<\/strong>By JOHN O’CONNOR<\/div>\n
June 24, 2009 <\/div>\n

Read the full e-mail exchange in Thursday’s edition of The State.<\/em><\/p>\n

Below are excerpts of e-mails, obtained by The State newspaper in December<\/u><\/strong><\/font>, between Gov. Mark Sanford’s personal e-mail account and Maria, a woman in Buenos Aires, Argentina… <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
This story still doesn’t quite work. He said that he was found out "five months ago." "December<\/strong><\/font>" minus June 24th is six months. The State<\/strong><\/font> newspaper has known since December<\/strong><\/font>? Yet their articles didn’t say anything about that. In fact The State<\/strong><\/font> reporter [Gina Smith] wrote a story this morning [Sanford met in Atlanta after returning from South America<\/strong><\/a>] about meeting the Governor as he got off a plane from Argentina that passed on his blather about an adventure trip, quoting him as saying, "I don’t know how this thing got blown out of proportion.<\/strong><\/font>" It’s not like the emails in this article aren’t clear as a bell:<\/div>\n
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You have a particular grace and calm that I adore. You have a level of sophistication that so fitting with your beauty. I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificent gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curve of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself [or two magnificent parts of yourself] in the faded glow of the night’s light – but hey, that would be going into sexual details… <\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
And then there’s this C Street business – C Street, The Family, The Fellowship, Jesus First – some kind of special Christian Congressmen thing with Bible Study, a boarding house, and two big time philanderers in a couple of weeks – John Ensign<\/strong> and Mark Sanford<\/strong>. I guess it’s an ag\u00c3\u00a1p\u00c4\u201c<\/strong> <\/em>kind of society. Whatever all of this is about, it’s hard not to see it all as a remarkable bit of hypocrisy from some of the Republicans who have bludgeoned us with their idiosyncratic version of Christianity for the last decade.<\/div>\n

Right now, the Internet is abuzz with sites saying that we [DFH’s][Liberals][Democrats][Progressives] are jumping on the transgressions of a few to judge the Religious Right. First, it is no longer a few<\/em>. And second, our response is not so much a judgement. It’s a reaction to the extreme judgementalness of the self-righteous. Jesus covered this in the Sermon on the Mount:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Matthew 7:<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/a><\/em> <\/td>\n Judge not, that ye be not judged.<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/a><\/em> <\/td>\n For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/a><\/em> <\/td>\n And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/a><\/em> <\/td>\n Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is<\/em> in thine own eye?<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/a><\/em> <\/td>\n Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye. <\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/a><\/em> <\/td>\n ¶ Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Exclusive: E-mails between Sanford, woman Woman in affair declines interview The State By JOHN O’CONNOR June 24, 2009 Read the full e-mail exchange in Thursday’s edition of The State. Below are excerpts of e-mails, obtained by The State newspaper in December, between Gov. Mark Sanford’s personal e-mail account and Maria, a woman in Buenos Aires, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}