Hypocrisy revealed always turns on its owner. I can’t remember how many years ago I penned that observation, but I do know I hate hypocrisy wherever I find it, and most particularly when I find it in me.

Only those with enough personal integrity will admit to this particular affliction when they discover it in their own bed. All the others will make excuses or simply lie, but hypocrisy is something we all have to deal with from time-to-time, because we’re all guilty of it from time-to-time.

The difference between the two approaches to this problem is that those with enough personal integrity will admit the gaffe, even if just to themselves, but they always learn and develop even more personal character because of it. The others just remain hypocrites.

Rush Limbaugh just admitted he’s addicted to prescription painkillers like Vicodin and Oxycontin. Reports in the National Enquirer say old Rush has been obtaining those drugs illegally through private, non-medical sources, otherwise referred to as illegal drug dealers in the everyday press. It now appears those reports are true.

Well, Mr. Limbaugh, your hypocrisy just turned and bit you right in the ass! Aren’t you the guy I’ve heard repeatedly condemning illegal drug use and aren’t you also the flaming hypocrite who has repeatedly condemned the idea of drug legalization?

You see, Rush, everybody’s got an excuse for using drugs, whether they be approved by the Federal Drug Administration, or the product of some meth lab set up in a bathtub. They are all drugs, Rush. Your published excuse is severe pain from a back ailment. But the fact is that you resorted to illegal drug dealers to continue to obtain those painkillers, and federal law says you are a felon for it. You’ll never be criminally charged for it, but you’re no better than all those druggies you condemned on your radio show, time after time.

Those who promote the use of medical Marijuana for the treatment of various ailments came under fire from Rush Limbaugh as well.

In point of fact, God gave us everything we have here on the earth to use in the exercise of our free will. A rock can be used as the cornerstone for the building of a church or a house or a hospital. The same rock can be used to crush the skull of someone we hate.

Drugs of any kind, be they deemed illegal or not by human notion, can be used to treat or to destroy, just like alcohol.

The instructions God gave us were to use what He gave us in moderation and in wisdom. God never advocated any human law banning the use of any of the substances He allowed us access to. That is why Prohibition failed so miserably, and that is also why the War On Drugs is failing miserably.

Attempting to “ban” anything lacks God’s own wisdom, because He knows human nature will conflict with it. For some odd reason, our elected leaders have never quite figured that out.

Those with enough personal integrity, coupled with the wisdom of God, may want to reconsider their long held convictions. The others will just make excuses and lie, and the disastrous consequences of the War On Drugs will continue unabated.

Carl F. Worden

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