Part of the collateral damage being inflicted upon our current Western democratic society by the loosening of all moral and legal restraints on speech, assembly and sexuality is that there is apparently no longer any meaning to the concepts of shame and disgrace. Unbridled arrogance and inflated personal ego rule the world of politics, religion and public life.
A convicted felon serves as one of the representatives of the religious world in the Knesset and as the head of a religious party. He speaks in the name of Torah though Torah requires humility and a healthy sense of shame and embarrassment not brazenness and deviousness. But that is not really his fault, for great rabbis back him and are openly subservient to his power. There is no moral voice that is allowed to protest this desecration of Torah. Where there is no sense of shame present originally, only a disgraceful sense morality can follow.
In New York state two prominent former office holders who were forced to resign their public and powerful offices because of their sexually immoral behavior (unfortunately both are Jewish) are again running for major public offices in the upcoming New York City elections.
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