Do As I Say, Not As I Do
The Florida Republican Party Chair, Christian Ziegler, is embroiled in a scandal. He is accused of sexual assault and is under criminal investigation. Even with intense political pressure, including from Governor DeSantis and Senator Scott, he has refused to step down.
And here is the interesting part. The married Ziegler, who purports to be a paragon of conservative Christian values, has countered the allegations by saying the sex was consensual. The unnamed woman states that she declined to have sex with Ziegler after she found out that Mrs. Ziegler would not be joining them. The accuser claims that Ziegler came to her apartment and then sexually assaulted her.
Upon questioning by police, Mrs. Ziegler admitted to earlier participating in a sexual encounter with the woman and her husband. Mrs. Ziegler is a Sarasota school board member and a co-founder of Moms for Liberty. She campaigned for the “Don’t Say Gay Bill” that prohibits teaching anything to do with L.G.B.T.Q. in schools. For her devotion to conservative Christian values and campaigning for adoption of the bill, DeSantis rewarded her with an appointment to the board now overseeing Disney.
Perhaps if she had taken just a rudimentary lesson in what L.G.B.T.Q. was, she would have noticed that the “L” stands for lesbian and “B” for bi-sexual. Having a sexual encounter with another woman is definitely not what she purports to be all about. You can understand how people would call her and Mr. Ziegler hypocrites for behaving in a way that is inconsistent with the very ideas and points of view that brought both to prominence in state politics.
And Ziegler claiming the sex was consensual doesn’t excuse the fact that as a supposedly devout conservative Christian, he has broken his marriage vows by committing adultery. So too has Mrs. Ziegler.
Now I really don’t care who you sleep with. As long as everyone is an adult and consents to the plan, what happens behind closed doors in your business, not mine. But as a parent, grandparent, Christian, and Libertarian, I have a problem with people trying to impose their views on me and my family in the name of protecting my children, using Christian values, and trying to impose a certain morality, all of which these two hypocrites don’t even believe in.
If Ziegler forced himself on the woman, it is rape. A very unchristian action that is also illegal. If rape then the hypocrisy turns into a crime.
It is time for parents to be responsible for their children without the aid of false prophets so to speak. The Zieglers give morality a bad name because they don’t practice what they preach and try to impose their supposed beliefs on the rest of us. Let each of us decide what our moral code is not conniving politicians who practice the “do as I say not as I do” philosophy.
