If you haven’t heard the story, here’s the gist. Marine Cpl Matt Sanchez, recent winner of the Jeanne Kirkpatrick Academic Freedom Award at CPAC, was once a gay porn, erm, actor and escort. But apparently he isn’t anymore.

How conveeeenient!

The left is making this revelation a Jeff Gannon redux.

For good reason.

What they’re actually showing is that, once again, the left loves the sin but hates the sinner (if the sinner is a Republican). Because you won’t find many if any denunciations of what Sanchez did on its own merits; they’ll just slam him for “hypocrisy” for being a Republican with a past.

For good reason.

Do yourself a favor and read the whole thing, and the whole post. Sanchez would have done well to inform CPAC of his past and let them decide whether or not to honor him with the award…

Gee...yah think?

...but he didn’t and it’s not difficult to understand why. Who wants to bring up something like that, once a group of distinguished people have decided that you’re honorable?

Ummmm...lemme guess...someone who was...ohhhhhhhh...I dunno...HONORABLE???

Gawd forbid he’d allow them to give the award to someone else who was more deserving. I mean, it’s not like there are a lot of honorable Iraq War Veterans out there or anything.

For our friends on the left who will tar the entire conservative movement over the past of one man…

As if they’ve never tarred the entire conservative movement over the actions or opinions of a single person before.

But we must all try and remember to refrain from using hateful, ugly, potty-mouth words and go to church each ‘n every Sunday and they’ll stop attacking us.

Hey, it could happen!

...you’d do well to consider something that GayPatriotWest reminded me of — at the heart of the Christian story is a prostitute, Mary Magdalene.

I can see where you’re going with this, but thanks—I’ve already seen Pretty Woman.

At the heart of the New Testament is a book called Corinthians, in which Paul describes some of the early Christians thus:

Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

Sounds like my kinda people, but I digress…

“…and such were some of you…” He’s talking to some of the first Christians. Those people had histories. But change is possible. Based on his actions at Columbia and in joining the Marines, I’d say that change has happened.

Well goody goody gumdrops for him.

Look, a lot people have “histories” but not everyone has a history of doing gay porn.

What he should have done was respectfully decline the award.

And the fact that he didn’t says a lot for his “honor”, in my opinion.

That’s not to excuse or defend anything, just to put it into perspective.

Oh no...we’re not going to defend him or anything like that. We’re just going to blame liberals and the MSM when they take this story and rub it (and rightly so I might add) in our collective faces.

I can’t wait to see who CPAC has on tap for next year.

As predicted…

Last night, hate-filled liberals on MSNBC attemped to smear Marine Corporal Matt Sanchez and conservatives who honored him at CPAC for his support of the military at Columbia University. They gleefully showed photos of Cpl. Sanchez at the event--including ones I took--in mockery after his gay porn past was outed by left-wing blogs. They cackled “Semper Fi.”

And no more cackling you guys!