Counting Sins
JoAnn Wypijewski distills in one sentence what has been bothering me about the liberal response to Mark Sanford’s love troubles: “Christians thunder; liberals sneer, but it amounts to the same thing, counting sins.”
Read the rest of JoAnn’s Nation column, “Carnal Knowledge,” for the most thoughtful response to the whole affair and what it reveals about love, lust, and self-righteousness.
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Jeff Sharlet is co-editor of Believer, Beware: First-Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith (2009), author of the New York Times bestseller The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (2008), and coauthor, with Peter Manseau, of Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible (2004).