Claiming the Christian morality police “ask for Jesus while they’re diddling their secretary” former GOP Sen. Alan Simpson rebukes religious conservatives for their intolerance and hypocrisy.

Speaking to KULR in an interview that aired on Sunday, Simpson declared:

Hypocrisy is the original sin. It’s the guy who’s checking your moral values, like to ask for Jesus, you know — while they’re diddling their secretary. That’s not my idea of family values. Either you’re who you are or you’re not…. people just lead a fake life and try to give you advice.

Speaking about college students today Simpson said today’s college students reject the anti-gay, anti-woman, anti-abortion “social issues” promoted by religious conservatives.

About college students today Simpson said:

They’re very serious people and they don’t care about the social issues. Gay-lesbian issues are not even on their screen, and they’re very accepting of others, which is great, I think.

Simpson also said that young people today viewed abortion as a “deeply intimate and personal decision.”

The former Republican senator even went so far as to say:

I don’t think men legislators should even vote on it (abortion).

Simpson, a Republican, served from 1979 to 1997 as a United States Senator from Wyoming.

In 2010 Simpson was appointed to co-chair President Barack Obama’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Democratic co-chair Erskine Bowles of North Carolina.

Simpson’s candor and wisdom concerning the hypocrisy and intolerance of conservative Christians currently driving the GOP is a welcome bit of honesty.

Bottom line: Simpson’s narrative nicely illustrates the recent intellectual and moral decline of the Republican party.

(H/T Raw Story)