Escape Hatch for the Disgraced

[Ian David]

Who gets to ride a white steed out of town and who has to slink away in the twilight?

Consider evangelicals caught with prostitutes -- heterosexual or homosexual -- or in other adultery. It's repent and resign almost every time. That's the post-Colonial equivalent of the pillory in the town square. Ted Haggard, Jim Baker, Jimmy Swaggart were all out of there, slinkers everyone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_televangelist_scandals

Closer to home though, it seems theocrats and Le Bon Dieu's bureaucrats get to saddle up and ride to safety. The latest appears to be Catholic Citizenship's Executive Director Larry Cirignano (shown right with Cardinal Sean O'Malley).
http://www.catholicvote.org/about.php

Word in the Worcester Telegram is that this one gets to ride off to to head a yet to be fleshed out Catholic Citizenship role in D.C.
http://tinyurl.com/2js6qv

Apparently he's going to move his anti-gay/anti-marriage-equality act from the scene of his recent disgrace a little over two months ago.
http://massmarrier.blogspot.com/2006/12/witness-in-worcester.html

Cirignano continues to stonewall. He is innocent, innocent he tells us of assault and battery on a young woman protesting his group's rally. He goes to court on February 20th to face the charge. However, he assures all that his move to Washington and away from the scene has nothing to do with the incident.

Uh huh. It's just coincidence that the board suddenly created a new spot far away from recent trouble.

More:
http://massmarrier.blogspot.com/2007/01/escape-hatch-for-disgraced.html