Not to be confused with morality.

When was the last time we caught a Limbaugh or Jim Baker smoking pot?

Moralism, I think, is a pathology. A syndrome at the very least. You get some guy up there purifying the nation, denouncing the evils of XYZ (at least one of which is homosexuality). I'm not talking about an activist seriously tackling a real issue, I'm talking about somebody out to purify the land, to rid the world of evil, to punish the impure.You know, for a fact, that certain things are going to be discovered eventually. Sexual deviancy that includes the sexuality being denounced plus children and/or subordinates and maybe animals. Misappropriation of resources - embezzlement. And drug abuse. The drug involved will not be pot.

Whatever else pot does or doesn't do to you, it is not part of the moralistic syndrome. It may lead you to immoral acts, it may be immoral to smoke it. I don't know, and wolf has been cried so often and so loudly that if somebody says you can get burned touching the lit end of a joint it makes sense to question the research behind the statement. But when the preacher has to apologize to his flock for doing most of the things he spoke so harshly against, smoking pot is not going to be in the list of things he got caught doing, even if it is one of the things that he denounced.

The moralist is not a highly sexually charged person who can't find a mate. A successful moralist has plenty of willing groupies - who will be entirely frustrated.

I'd be willing to bet actual money that Glen Beck is not smoking weed.