John Edwards, Please come home.

This blog supported John Edwards in the primaries.
He addressed the issues that many in America believe are among the most important issues facing our country today.
Homelessness, Poverty and so on.
Joy Behar is covering the story in depth on her new show.

Elizabet Edwards is a cancer victim.
She has been close to death, and she may die from cancer.
Having this knowledge, John Edwards made a mistake.
He had unprotected sex with someone he was not married to.
He may have, "Fallen in love with her."

John Edwards is a good looking man.
John Edwards "oozes charm".
He has money and power.
Everyday some of the most gorgeous women in America
strive to win his attention, and many, let's be adults here, want to get him in bed.
Some want to get pregnant.
It's a career move.
Ms Hunter, the mistress, has earned a fortune, literally, by sleeping with a wealthy man.
Her life will be what most Americans dream of.
Freedom, independance, freedom from lack of anything she desires.
Edwards spread his genetic material with an incredibly beautiful woman, and the woman, like sleeping beauty will live happily ever after.

listen.

We are animals.
We have different thought processes from other animals, and other mammals, but we have certain basic behaviors which are part of our physiological make-up,  we are animals, mammals, primates.
To the extent that Edwards behavior violated some primitive or otherwise taboo, his punishment should be social, not political.
It is patently ridiculous for anyone to claim that they couldn't make the same slip that John Edwards and Ms Hunter made.
Ask yourself, if an incredibly attractive and intelligent and desirable member of the opposite sex became an acquaintance then an irresistible sexual attraction developed, that there could be no possible chance under any circumstances that you would not "slip"?.

The number one activity of life is survival and reproduction.
To borrow a phrase from a noted scholar, Rabbi Hillel, "..the rest is just commentary."

What John Edwards and Ms Hunter did is as natural as evolution and the grey ocean.
Let's dispose of the excitement of this "scandal" and ask,
'What else ya got, John Edwards?"

As a culture, we are evolving, as a society we are having more sex than at any time, maybe ever, certainly here.
We have to remember, or become aware, that sex is not bad.
We can and should educate ourselves about it, and be aware that religious views of sex have often been very harmful.

Let's judge John Edwards on who he is, not on a sexual episode in his life.