Haley Gray Scott: Auditing America’s Political Integrity

Whether you are a Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. This is an outstanding article and worth your serious musing. At the very least Scott reminds every American that moral integrity does count and counts a lot. It is also a wake-up call for Christians to make their voices heard as well. See what you think.

It’s been a long time since we’ve heard anything about what it means to be a good, virtuous person, much less saw those characteristics demonstrated regularly throughout our political system. “We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise,’ wrote C.S. Lewis. “We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.”

It’s not only our politicians. It’s endemic to our culture, baked into the structure of our society. This corrosion of morality affects our businessesschoolsappetitessports, and yes, churches. In my role as a seminary professor, I’ve interacted with seemingly innocuous colleagues who were eventually charged with heinous crimes and then went on to rationalize them, rather than take responsibility and offer remorse. I’ve seen administration manipulate faculty and students abuse professors, cheat on assignments, and rarely receive anything more than an academic penalty and an apologetic slap on the wrist. We don’t even have the appropriate safeguards in our churches to ensure those helming the ship aren’t sexualpredators.

It’s a tale as old as time. We sweep the sin under the rug and make the victim go away. In cowardice we fail to confront evil in our midst because we all too often care more about power and money (which is nothing more than monetized power) than we care about the integrity, the character, of our leaders and future leaders.