Some troubles of hypocracy

I read Andrew Sullivan's writing consistently.
Yes, the conservative Republican.
What sets him apart from the noise is thoughtfulness and clarity of thought.

He wrote about Senator Larry Craig (R-Idaho) and I want to post a bit of Sullivan's writing.
In this case, what he has to say elevates the discussion to a realm for higher consideration.

To quote:
"Craig was seeking in that toilet stall a connection, a shard of intimacy, that the world would not give him, or that he could not give himself. No one should have to live without that intimacy and dignity - no one. Living a life like that - a deeply lonely, compromised, painful interior existence - is a very sophisticated form of hell. No human can keep it up for ever. No human should have to keep it up for ever.

He is a hypocrite; and he made his choices. I am not going to dispute that. His voting record helped sustain the misery for others that he lived with himself. He is forever responsible for that.

But he is also a victim. And to see such a victim's pain exposed brutally in a public restroom pains me. He needs help. So do millions of others. It is just a tragedy that the party that Craig belongs to is committed to prolonging the pain and the denial of so many people - in order to appease the casual fears of the insecure, and to use those fears to sustain political power. In that sense, Craig has long been a hapless tool of those who have made him so miserable and so alone for so long. One day, if we keep working, that misery will recede for some. If it recedes for one person, it will be worth it."

It becomes a matter of the deepest integrity, in fact, it is essential for each of us to live our truths. Oh yes, it can be difficult, painful and even life threatening. (Remember Matthew Shepard?) The ethics of a moral life require us to live our higher truths. This then is the essence of the 'tao of simple'.