I see where Robert Downey Jr. is asking the rest of hollywood to forgive Mel Gibson.

I can’t agree enough. I want to shout it from the rooftops. In today’s environment of ultra political correctness and the death of privacy, anyone is fair game for the ancient practice of “shunning”. Whatever happened to the healing of forgiveness?

There’s a long and growing list of unforgivable ‘words’ that a person is not allowed to use. And if you’re a public figure, your documented use of the language in question is grounds for the ultimate penalty, which amounts to a life sentence.

I’d hate like hell if some of my more noteworthy moments were committed to the public record. Surreptitiously recording someone in order to harm needs to be reviewed on a case by case basis (the Texas judge deserved it) but it is often at least as questionable and reprehensible an act as the one they’re trying to expose (the woman who taped Monica Lewinsky was the sleaziest character in that drama).

It’s time for forgiveness. Most of the time, people deserve to be forgiven. Held accountable and expected not to repeat. But self-righteous indignation is too often the real problem. It smacks of the hypocrisy in the worst of Christian and Muslim ideologies.

#bravo