Yes, Lord, But I Did Call Out Jesus and God While I Was Committing Adultery So There’s That
Todd Courser, who is the Michigan Republican sparking with another female lawmaker and then trying to spread homosexual rumors about himself to cover it up, has a new game plan.
Todd is a rightwing, family values Republican so when he got caught in a ton of hypocrisy, he took to The Facebook to bare his soul. And his buckets of crazy.
He calls upon the Scripture to lecture us that he’s the victim here and we should all feel sorry for him. If you’re not on Facebook, I made a PDF of this. However, you will miss all the funny comments on Facebook because there’s a thousand of them and that’s like a whole bunch of trouble on my part to covert to PDF. So get a damn fake Facebook account just so you can go look at the funny stuff.
The poor woman who had an affair with this guy! It makes you wonder how crummy her home life was to begin with doesn’t it?
1Just reading a few paragraphs of this man’s screed makes it abundantly clear that he would be NO FUN IN BED. Or am I missing something?
Typical moralizer attitude. Condemn others for wrong doing while you’re doing something equally as bad. I do believe the bible has several things to say about adultery and bearing false witness.
2I wonder if he got a nosebleed at the altitude his high horse attains.
No, I can’t get a damn facebook account, even for this. I simply cannot face facebook, and I refuse to participate. My privacy is already sold far more than it should be.
3So kristians have to be bad to make gawd look good?
4Apparently wingnuts disapprove of adultery rilly seriously when a Democrat does it more than when they themselves do it. Maybe they just feel like Dems are worth saving.
5what a load of pollo poop
6I *WANT* to say tl;dr;, but sadly I did read most of it.
As a person, I will forgive him transgressions against his family and himself. BUT, I would also expect him to do the same for the “sins” of others, something that has been, like his inability to avoid temptation, regretfully lacking.
One of the many important things I’ve learned in 12-step fellowship is that humility is the OPPOSITE of humiliation. That and the necessity of remaining teachable. Change is hard, but being broken by the inflexibility of hubris is harder (for yourself and those around you).
*Sigh*, it must be Monday morning… :-/
7I don’t think you need a facebook account, I can see the comments and I’m not on facebook. Obviously the idiot doesn’t have his account private (yet) because he thinks everyone is a moron like him and will fall for his lies.
8I didn’t need a FB account to see the post and responses. He may decide to change his account to private, but by then, it will be too late.
9OMG! I could not read all of that. He does go on and on and on. I think we neeed to take up a collection and get this guy a hammer and some nails to go with his cross. Nah, he’s not the type to get the hint. Of course maybe his wife and her husband could help… (Ok, I’m bad. I’ll get my coat).
10This guy doesn’t need a savior (supposedly he already has one). He needs a good, swift kick to the cerebrum to make him aware that he is responsible for his own actions.
And his wife needs a divorce because he is basically justifying what he did and is extremely likely to do it again.
11Blessed are those who come in the name of the lord.
12Yeah, I couldn’t read it either. What a pompous jerk!
13LynnN: I thought all Republicans were deeply into all that “personal responsibility” stuff. You mean we found one that just talks about it and doesn’t practice it? My, my, my. What will they think of nest?
14Read his self-serving gibberish? No, nope, nyet, nein and never. So many “forgive me I have sinned” hypocrites to keep count, much less lose time that cannot be replaced reading their redundant ‘explanations.’ May he be Duggared into obscurity, stripped of his government cheese and forced to find a real job.
Any religious instruction I deliver as a parent will begin with a trip to a carnival to introduce the kids to sleight of hand before giving them a tour of any of the more dangerous fraud institutions.
15“God says we’re all sinners so it’s not my fault.” I guess his god just does lousy work making people.
Favorite of the comments I saw: “Resign, you lying douchebag.”
Oh, here’s a good one too: “Somewhere there is a tree producing the oxygen that you breathe. You owe that tree an apology.”
Also several people citing Leviticus 20:10–
16“And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death”– which is one of many to bring up when anyone says our laws are based on the Bible or should be….
Better yet, his consort shares an office with him (to save the state money, she insists!) and is also married with kids and a Tea Party fav. She won’t resign either. Sad how Weiner got run out of town in a week for sending a gross picture, and these two have probably broken laws, but we’re all supposed to ‘forgive and forget.’ I’m in MI, and I am not forgetting.
17For some reason, I just don’t buy his moralizing. Not too sure God would either..he is using his ‘Christianity’ to condone what he is doing..and also to gain voters for ‘being sooooooo Christian’.
18Pass the brain bleach please.
So after preaching the evils of all those OTHER people –
And screwing around on his wife –
And trying to sidestep the truth by planting a lie –
now he tries to pretend that people might be blaming God for what he did.
Um, no. No one is looking at God as the culprit here. We know full well who that is. And one of these days Todd just might step up and take responsibility rather than fall back on all this buck-passing.
Who am I kidding? THAT’S not going to happen.
How do I know that for sure? I quote: “In my life sin had its root and it worked to undo so much and has yet to undo so much more . . . . This sin in my life has been and will continue to reap its reward.”
“So sin did it. Or the devil made me do it. Or something. The only thing that is absolutely certain is that _I_ had nothing to do with it. I’m the VICTIM here! Why can’t you people SEE that?”
19E Platypus…. I’m laughing so hard, the tears are streaming down my face.
I guess this is proof positive that , “Through God all things are possible!” Including being forgiven for being a lying, cheating, adulterous sack of excrement.
20It’s OK as long as you yell “O God, I’m coming!” at the appropriate time.
21Right-wingers are indignant/outraged when they suspect Dem politicians of “sexing” but are all “Christian forgiveness” when GOP politicians are caught out.
This is because right-wingers (rightly) suspect that we Dems do it better and have more fun.
22Thank you for the PDF Juanita, as I don’t have Facebook. I enjoyed the transcript of Todd Courser’s one man show, “Todd Courser Reenacts A Typical Day Building the Tower of Babel, Including What Went on After the Work Day Was Finished and Everyone Had a Cup of Mead.”
23I could wish that he didn’t seem QUITE so relieved at all the other sinners coming forward to commiserate.
24So if I understand him (not saying I’m capable of that) we are all born sinners so we don’t have the right to judge him. So even though everybody and their uncle has told him to resign, none of that matters because he hasn’t yet hallucinated that his skydaddy wants him to resign. He could have quietly resigned and gone back to his law practice but now that the whole world knows he’s a loon, his law practice will also be toast. I don’t think there are enough crazy county clerks to defend.
25Now that we’ve “covered” the “Thou shalt not commit adultery”, it’s important to remember the “Thou shalt not bear false witness” part as well.
It doesn’t get any simpler:Trying to say *other* people are sliming you with a false allegation of *NONheterosexual* adultery, was a lie. And how very, very convenient it is to forget that lying to slime another is A SIN. Funny how he doesn’t ask for forgiveness for that one…
26And if you all would like to enjoy the show even more, Michigan Live will be posting a live broadcast of the former aide, Josh Cline, telling all.
Y’all can catch it here:
27http://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/index.ssf/2015/08/watch_former_aide_to_reps_todd.html#incart_river
Addendum @24:
Also, a reminder that the worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves…
28Sociopaths are always innocent.
29Oh, Toddy C., we aren’t talking about “Christians” in the generic sense when we’re saying you’re a hypocrite. We’re talking about you. Not Everyman. You. You personally, still claiming to be a follower of Christ, even as you aren’t doing what He said do, and doing what He said not to do. You’re like someone who claims to be following directions, but took the off-ramp three exits back, did a U-ie under the freeway and is now headed back the other way.
You didn’t realize you were sinning before you got caught? You didn’t realize that telling other people how sinful they were, while you were also sinning, violated whole chunks of the Gospel according to Matthew? (Showing off your religion, judging people, blind leading the blind, motes and beams in the eye, etc.)
What you need, son, is to shut up and go to a better church. One that doesn’t talk about how sinful everyone else is, but gives practical direction to its congregation on what they can do along the lines of what Jesus actually said. Don’t get up and make loud noises about how sin got you. No. “Sin” didn’t get you. YOU chose to sin. And it wasn’t the first time, because it all started back when you named yourself a Speshul Snowflake Moral Sheepdog designated to nip at everybody else’s heels. You need to shut up (that’s a recurring theme, Toddy) and realize that you’re just a sheep. Not special. Nobody took you off the right path: you chose the wrong one. Nobody trapped you, nobody lured you, nobody did anything to you or at you: YOU did it. You can’t fix what you don’t admit. You can’t fix what you try to shuck responsibility for.
You’re old enough to be a grownup. Pull up your big boy pants, zip ’em tight (since you have that problem), and start acting like an adult. Say “I screwed up when I screwed her; it’s all my fault; I made the wrong decisions; I’m a mess.”
30“Amen” Elizabeth Moon, “Amen!”
31Heard from a friend in Michigan over the weekend. The Michiganders had about 3 seconds to chuckle over this before they just plain got sick of it all — and both of them! What this will lead to politically is anybody’s guess. Cannot scrub from my brain the sight of Jimmy Swaggart sobbing on TV about his own sinfulness and begging for forgiveness. As soon as he was off the air, the sobbing stopped immediately, he wiped his phony tears off with his sleeve, and went on with his fake existence.
32I read it by analyzing it. I agree with Elizabeth Moon (waving HI!). Admit the mistake. Apologize for the mistake. If you must invoke God, say, “With God’s help, I will never commit this sin again,” and then do the very best you can to live up to that.
In five pages there are:
• 59 sentences (several of them run on and on)
• 21 semicolons
• 14 uses of the m-dash, mostly where a period should have been used and a new paragraph started
• 1 use of an ellipsis (…)
• 8 Bible quotes, 7 of which are from the letters of Paul (one quoted twice) and only one from a Gospel (John 8:7 “…”He that is without sin among you, let him cast a stone…”)
• 1 use of the word “Bible” without capitalizing it (and multiple other typos)
• 9 mentions of being persecuted
• 8 mentions of being a sinner or unworthy
• 2 mentions blaming sin as what “worked to undo so much”
• Entirely too many cases of pointing out that other people are sinners, 4 of them specific, plus quoting Bible verses enforcing it
• Contradictory sentences (i.e., “I deserve all of it…” followed by “It is mystifying to me…”)
• THIS is “the most brutal [thing he has] had to endure in [his] life”? (p.2, right after the quote from John 8:7)
• And what does he mean by “…His promises are both positive and negative”? (2 instances of calling God’s promises negative)
What he did not do in this document is:
331. Admit the mistake was his fault (and premeditated)
2. Apologize for the mistake (to his family or his constituents).
3. Say anything about never committing the sin again.
Mark Schlemmer says:
August 17, 2015 at 8:08 am
“The poor woman who had an affair with this guy!”
NO! NO! NO!
Mark, that two-timing Repukian Tea Party beocht that poor ol’ Todd was makin’ bacon with is as bad, if not worse, than Courser hisself; they’re both lower than earthworm doodoo.
She’s (Cindy GamRAT, aprropriately named) supposedly a nurse with FOUR children, a max favorite with the teabagger crowd; and screwed around politically so seriously that HER OWN REPUBLIC PARTY saw fit to censure her, to the point of disallowing her to caucus with the ‘Pukes (which I’m sure precludes her from participating in almost any “R” function except making roll call votes).
“In April 2015, Gamrat was permanently removed from the Michigan House’s Republican Party caucus for violating their confidentiality rules with a Facebook post.[3] ”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Gamrat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Courser
And I’m sad to say that ‘Rep.’ Courser ‘represents’ the area that some of my ancestors settled in the 1820’s.
34I just couldn’t get through all that drivel. What a complete jerk he is. I wonder if God told him to write all that stuff or if he is just that mind numbingly boring all the time.
Of course his honey was named Gamrat. Just right if you ask me. People like this should not be allowed to get their trash into print.
35Adultery is not a mistake. It is a conscious decision to betray one’s marriage vows purely for one’s own selfish pleasure.
36It is a selfish, dishonest and purposeful act.
The Facebook comments are worth a little of your time. It is hard to believe he has not shut down the account.
37This commenter on the Fb page stole the show, IM<HO, to wit,
Keith Chrysler This.. is so touching.. it calls for a limerick:
There once was a state rep named Todd
who gamratted Cindy's sweet bod
their Thursdays were hot,
oh, such blessings he wrought
by the work of his staff and his rod.
* sniff * ..good poetry brings a tear to my eye.
Submitted for your approval!
38FYI — Even not having a FB account, on a chance, I clicked on the link to Todd’s FB screed. It’s public. Even those of us without accounts can read the comments in their full glory.
(My first post, but I’m a long-time, appreciative, lurker.)
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39Micr, I was about to paste Keith Chrysler’s li’l poem. Great minds, and all that.
40Love the limerick. Also the dissection of the post down to the punctuation.
41How many times did he use the word “showcase”? I found that somewhat telling, given his obvious narcissism.
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