Herb Silverman, the founder/president of the Secular Coalition for America, has a unique take on the Mark Sanford situation since he himself ran for governor of the state about 20 years ago.
Specifically, Herb takes on the infamous apology to everyone:
One of Governor Sanford’s press conference apologies was “to people of faith across South Carolina, or for that matter, across the nation,…” Implicit in his apology, and insulting to nontheists, is that people of faith are expected to be more moral than people without faith. What seems clear to me is that politicians who continually proclaim their faith are likely to be more hypocritical than those who don’t.
I’ll go out on a limb and say that no current atheist politician has ever been hypocritical. Ever.
Yep… I feel pretty comfortable saying that.