How did we lose our sense of shame?
The actions and comments of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore, former Democratic U.S. Rep. John Conyers and former UCLA basketball player LiAngelo Ball in recent days make it difficult for us to believe there is intellectually any price to pay for intentionally doing the wrong thing.
Oh, Moore may lose his race in Alabama this week, Conyers resigned from the House and Ball quit his team, but all three men are defiant and largely unrepentant in the face of the misdeeds with which they’re confronted.
Their action and the actions of so many others today make it difficult to teach that doing the right thing is, in fact, the right thing.
Moore, the crusading former Alabama Supreme Court judge, is said to have sexually assaulted and harassed nine teenagers and young women more than 30 years ago when he was a decade and a half older than they were.