{"id":379,"date":"2008-01-30T23:20:12","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T03:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/?p=379"},"modified":"2008-01-30T23:20:12","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T03:20:12","slug":"just-call-him-icabod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/just-call-him-icabod","title":{"rendered":"Just call him Ichabod"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Detroit’s mayor used his church (and his wife) tonight as props for an “apology” to the City of Detroit. If you listen carefully to what he said, he never apologized for his affair or for lying about it under oath. He apoligized “[F]or the embarrassment and the disappointment, the events of the past few days<\/em> have caused you…” In other words, he didn’t apologize for his behavior, he apologized for the fact that the media had made it front page news.<\/p>\n

The mayor’s speech was staged perfectly to make it appear that this is a personal matter that the media has overblown. The mayor’s philandering is certainly between him, his wife, and his family. However, lying under oath to cover it up is a public matter, and even more importantly, a legal matter. When a public official costs the tax payers in excess of $9 million dollars to settle a lawsuit stemming from his bad judgment, it is a public matter.<\/p>\n

But alas, the city council of Detroit, the mayor’s pastor, and I fear even the prosecutor who is considering charges against the mayor lack the will to hold the man accountable for his actions.<\/p>\n

One news report characterized the mayor as “humbled.” Was I watching the same speech? Tonight’s speech was over the top with arrogance, quickly diverging from “apology mode” to “I am in charge of the city,” followed by a litany of “successes” he has brought to the city since becoming mayor in 2002. He actually reassured the city he wasn’t going anywhere, as if his potential resignation was what has put the city on edge for the last ten days!<\/p>\n

This city is in the grips of a crisis of spiritual authority characterized first by the moral failure of the mayor, second by the mayor’s pastor refusing to hold him spiritually accountable, and finally by elected public officials acting as accomplices by allowing this moral degenerate to continue to drag the city down with him.<\/p>\n

ICHABOD! 1 Samuel 4:21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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