The Hypocrisy of Newt Gingrich - He Talks Like a Pastor But Lives Like a Porn Star

My activist friends at Truth Wins Out are taking on the hypocrisy of Newt Gingrich head on. Gingrich, a thrice married serial adulterer would have the simple minded dolts of the evangelical Christian set believe that he's a champion of the "sanctity of marriage." His personal conduct tells a very different story. Therefore, in response to Gingrich's unfathomable hubris and hypocrisy, Truth Wins Out has placed a full page ad - it's pictured above - in Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper. In addition, John Becker, who did a masterful job going under cover at "Marcia" Bachmann's ex-gay myth peddling "Christian counseling center" has an op-ed at The Advocate that takes on Gingrich's batshitery. Here are some op-ed highlights:

Truth Wins Out placed an admittedly provocative full-page ad in today’s edition of Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper, headlined “Newt Gingrich: Talks Like a Preacher, Lives Like a Porn Star.” In it, we admonish Gingrich for his stunning hypocrisy on the issue of marriage equality, taking him to task for the way that he, a serial adulterer with multiple marriages, works tirelessly to prevent same-sex couples from marrying because of a professed belief that marriage is “sacred.”

This ad was strategically timed to coincide with the start of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, DC.

The speaker’s list for this year’s conference reads like the roster of a conservative Dream Team: Rick Perry, Scott Walker, Michele Bachmann, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, Tony Perkins, Ann Coulter, Herman Cain, John Boehner, and GOP presidential wannabes Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich.

It also comes in the midst of a white-hot week for the freedom to marry movement — a week in which the House and Senate in Washington state passed a marriage equality bill, a similar bill was introduced in the Illinois Assembly, and California’s Proposition 8 was ruled unconstitutional in a federal appellate court. And it’s only Thursday!

TWO launched the ad because we believe that when the LGBT community is attacked, we should fight back. . . . . And Gingrich has certainly attacked. He recently demeaned married same-sex couples in lifelong committed relationships as nothing more than “friends.” He has repeatedly pledged to advance a constitutional amendment excluding same-sex couples from marriage. He funneled $200,000 into the successful effort to oust three Iowa Supreme Court justices whose ruling allowed LGBT couples the freedom to marry. And he wasted no time lambasting Tuesday’s historic Proposition 8 ruling as an unconscionable judicial assault on the “Judeo-Christian foundations of the United States.”

Conservatives, including Gingrich, proclaim marriage to be a holy sacrament and position themselves as the valiant defenders of this tradition. Even that doesn’t go far enough for the former Speaker, who would have you believe his moral beacon shines so brightly as to render him the “definer of civilization.” But as we all know, Newt’s personal life proves the hollowness of these words. He has behaved reprehensibly in at least two of his three marriages, yet tells anyone who will listen that LGBT Americans should be forbidden from marrying at all. And the social conservatives at the base of his party are eating it up.

Pointing out Newt Gingrich’s serial hypocrisy undermines our opponents’ core argument about marriage being too sacred for same-sex couples. Doing so at CPAC implicates social conservatives for aiding and abetting behavior they purport to oppose when they slavishly support Gingrich.

To describe Gingrich (and his supporters) as a hypocrite is indeed an understatement.