This morning in the Jackson Sun, weekend editor Jason Tippitt, declares “Congressman Wamp, we have a problem….”

You can’t choose your family. But you, congressman, have chosen The Family, and that’s a problem.

That townhouse where you live in Washington with the other lawmakers – it’s registered as a church, but it seems more like an apartment complex – and the group called The Family that owns it, frankly, scare me a bit.

The Family’s story is detailed by journalist Jeff Sharlet in a book titled “The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power,” and its author has been all over the airwaves lately as some of your roommates and ex-roommates have gotten in trouble.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford lived there. Nevada’s Sen. John Ensign still does. Both cheated on their wives, and there’s possibly financial hanky panky at work as well.

People are people. And I can understand your reluctance to judge your friends when the Knoxville News Sentinel asked for a quote earlier this summer.