At a casino bingo hall in southwestern Colorado, Lauren Boebert, a Republican congresswoman, bounced her 6-month-old grandson on her knee.

“The election’s still a ways away,” she said as the guests arriving for the Montezuma County Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Day dinner trickled into the room. “And in talking with people at events like this, you know, it seems like there’s a lot of mercy and a lot of grace.”

The month before, Boebert, then in the midst of finalizing a divorce, was caught on a security camera vaping and groping her date shortly before being ejected from a performance of the musical “Beetlejuice” at the Buell Theater in Denver for causing a disturbance. The footage contradicted her own initial claims about the incident, and the venue’s statement that Boebert had demanded preferential treatment added to the outrage.

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      Wait, wasn’t it that any kind of sexual act that doesn’t have the purpose of procreation is a sin?

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        Only if you get caught, are having fun, or are queer, of course (/s). But the two core rules of Conservatism are:

        • I get to do what I want.
        • You have to do what I say.
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        What I find interesting about the research, I think, is that despite all their bluster about “sin,” “tradition,” and “family values,” it turns out they are at least as likely to participate in the adult sex industry as their liberal and progressive counterparts. Being Conservative doesn’t appear to be a factor (at least, not in most cases), and being an ex-fundigelical myself, I hypothesize that it might increase that likelihood, possibly due to the combination of sexual repression and the near-constant focus on the sexual habits of others.

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      For some reason I read that as “…all the way to the West Bank.”

      I was trying to figure out why it would be helpful for her to get groped in the West Bank.