Morally Good?

I cannot honestly say that I believe an orator must be morally good to be a public speaker.  When looking at the Greek's history I honestly do not think you can classify very many Greek men (women were not allowed to be orator's, so from hence forth, I will be picking on the men!) as being morally good.  They had little to no respect for women, women were expected to stay inside their home, unless they had to go to the market, but that was it, women had no place in the Greek society, other than to hopefully give their husband's sons.  Greek men were engaged in relations with young boys, referred to as "beautiful boys".  In today's time, we refer to it as pedophilia.  Almost all Greek men were expected to engage in relations with these young boys.  Granted, they were also expected to be their teacher's and to support these young boys, but it still begs the question of was this behavior in any way, shape or form moral?  Greek men worshipped their bodies and spent many hours at the gym.  For most Greek men, this is where they courted their beautiful boys.  So, it leads me to the conclusion that the Greek men were definitely not morally good, in most ways, they seemed to be more corrupt than good.  This also leads to our public speakers today, such as politicians.  So many stand behind their podiums speaking to our communities, but most have skeletons in their closets as well.  Even when we look at the preacher's, ministers, pastors and priests, are all these men morally good?  I would like to say they are all public speakers.  They speak to crowds who come to listen to what they have to say.  Many times in the news, I hear stories of these "chosen" men of God being corrupt and committing horrendous acts that most of us would never imagine fathomable.  Of course, we want to believe these public orators are good, that they are speaking nothing but the truth, but as humans, we MUST be skeptical.  Does this person have ulterior motives?  Does this person live the life he/she is emitting to us truly in the sense of being morally good.   Now, I am not saying that all people and public speakers are corrupt, there are many out there that are morally good, they lead wholesome lives and they speak the truth, but it reminds me of my years in elementary school, when one child acted out, the whole classroom was punished.  It seems that this happens today.  Because a few are corrupt, most are branded as being that way as well.  I wish I could say there was a definitive connection between goodness, truth and public communication, but I do not believe there completely is.  This is definitely not a black and white type scenario.  I wish I was not so skeptical, but alas, I am.  I will end with this, the Greek's had many amazing philosopher's who looked outside the box, who questioned authority, and who sought for answers that at the time had not been answered, but in the end, they too were humans and flawed like the rest of us, so I cannot say the Greeks were correct when they stated that one must be morally good to be an orator.  In the end, I believe it's the person's charisma and or personality that makes him or her a great orator, not his or her goodness.

Kate