Sorry Wade to answer your question with a question, but I wanted to give specific examples.
Remember when the Dixie Chicks said what they said about former Pres GW Bush? Is that disrespectful? Please put your Democrats vs Republicans bias aside.
Was it disrespectful to go into Bill Clinton's sex life, even though JFK, who is regarded as a great President, had a heck of a lot more affairs and FDR died in another woman's arms?
"zombieslayer" wrote:
I don't remember exactly what the Dixie Chicks said. But as someone who has regularly been rather disrespectful of the younger Bush (a student once took me to task for calling his policies those of an idiot), I really cant chastise them if they were. (Though I might disrespect them if I thought their own opinions were as idiotic as, say, Michael Moore's.)
I think its disrespectful to go into anyone's sex life unless they ask you to. To my mind adult pornography is less disrespectful than the paparrazi and what passes for "investigative journalism" of the Monicagate sort.
Marilyn Monroe wasn't my type, but I think we both know what I probably would do if I was president and had the chance to sleep with Jessica Biel. And unless I went around blathering about it, it should be wholly irrelevant to how I should be judged as president.
Indeed, I would go farther. IMO, unless I am related (child, parent, spouse), or enforcing a specific law (e.g. sexual assault) it's not just disrespectful for me to pay attention to another person's sexual conduct without their consent, it's a violation of Matthew 7.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:2 (NKJV)