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Terris reported that blood trickled out of a gash in his head — an injury that eventually landed him in the ER. But for now, he wrote, “The lingering buzz from the predawn whiskey shot helps.”

The reporter felt compelled to learn more about Ross since his publication had ranked him among the top 10 conservative members of Congress. “You should come boar hunting with me sometime,” Ross had told him a few weeks prior.

An excerpt:

Ross leaned forward in his seat to size up my multicolored socks, my oversized glasses, my untamed hair. “Of course, if it makes you more comfortable, we can donate all the meat to a food bank,” he said. It was a diplomatic gesture. If Ross had overestimated how much I might object to killing an animal for sport, I could forgive him. In Washington, people tend to rely on signals to get a sense of each other: party affiliations, voting records, socks. Subtleties get lost. I started thinking that the only way to really understand Dennis Ross would be to join him in his natural habitat.

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“Then the waitress made physical contact. ‘I think you’re hot,’ she said, putting her palm on Scott’s freshly shaved head. ‘I can feel your heat from over here.’”

Using the line “I can feel your heat” should be outlawed. I can’t imagine anyone finds that hot. That sounds like the last thing a bulky prisoner says to his new cellmate before making him a woman.

That’s not all. As a young candidate, Scott campaigned around South Carolina touting his Christian faith. He was unmarried and proudly told audiences that he had never had sexual relations with a woman because it was against God’s law. That was 1995 and he was a 30-year-old man. Fast forward 17 years. Scott admits that in recent years he hasn’t been so faithful to God’s law.

“Scott laughed when asked recently about whether as a 46-year-old bachelor he adheres to the same virtues that he did at 30. ‘Yeah.… Not as well as I did then,’ he said in his Capitol Hill office. ‘At the end of the day, the Bible is very clear: abstinence until marriage. Not to do so is a sin.’ Scott said he would still go to schools to preach the importance of abstinence but would no longer use his own story. ‘I wouldn’t talk about that anymore,’ he said with a smile. ‘The Bible’s right—you’re better off to wait. I just wish we all had more patience.’”

Hypocrisy isn’t really all that out of the ordinary for Washington politicians or the church, so this is hardly news. But, did God just change her mind on the whole subject? Are we allowed to get down and dirty with people as long as we just recognize that it’s a sin? By that logic, we could do anything that God says not to do and then just ask forgiveness later.

For now we’ll just call Tim Scott a Selective Sinner.

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