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Observation: I guess apparently you can join the Catholic Church after being very public about being twice-divorced, divorce being something that would mean expulsion from said church? Catholics, please explain, thanks.

In the meantime …

In her most provocative comments, the ex-Mrs. Gingrich said Newt sought an “open marriage” arrangement so he could have a mistress and a wife.

She said when Gingrich admitted to a six-year affair with a Congressional aide, he asked her if she would share him with the other woman, Callista, who is now married to Gingrich.

“And I just stared at him and he said, ‘Callista doesn’t care what I do,’” Marianne Gingrich told ABC News. “He wanted an open marriage and I refused.”

Marianne described her “shock” at Gingrich’s behavior, including how she says she learned he conducted his affair with Callista “in my bedroom in our apartment in Washington.”

“He always called me at night,” she recalled, “and always ended with ‘I love you.’ Well, she was listening.”

All this happened, she said, during the same time Gingrich condemned President Bill Clinton for his lack of moral leadership.

Bold emphasis is mine on that last bit. This is ultimately the point where GOP family-values hypocrites have no fucking business being the morality police since it’s been proven time and time and time again that some of the biggest, screechiest morality avatars don’t practise what they preach.

How do we know that Newt isn’t sleeping around on Callista either?

Hope I’ll be able to catch the whole interview online. It will air Thursday night on ABC’s Nightline.

The Catholic church really doesn’t care. Their whole thing is, pretty much since their inception, forgiving people who pray enough (and more importantly donate enough) can absolve themselves of any wrong-doing.

None of this story is all that new but it’ll be a fun companion piece to tonight’s debate.

-Joe

Damn, I wish I had a bingo square for “open marriage” now. I love the headline on this because I’m not entirely sure this is an “exclusive”. I’d say it’s obvious.