He was playing against the Christian ideology that men are not really to blame when they fall victim to a determined seduction brought to bear against them by a woman who cannot control her desire for his sexual attention. The House Managers were then caught in the ultimate dilemma of having to deny the fact that their case was about sex, because any good Christian and true would be forced to side with Clinton against Lewinsky, and pursue instead a denunciation of Clinton's perceived willful disobedience in refusing to adhere to the Rule of Law . What the Managers of the impeachment trial could prove was sex. What they could not prove, but were forced to try, was perjury and obstruction of justice. Being a good Baptist and true, Clinton knew exactly how to handle the House Managers.
Lechery is the direct cause of overpopulation.
Reducing that threat to civil government therefore becomes God's duty in punishing the guilty masses who have caused the problem through their lack of self-control. The fact that this discourse is directed at the Other, women, in the first place, and ultimately, at all people of color, explains why it is always already necessary to accuse the inferior classes of humanity of being guilty of Luxuria. After that fact is established in the common mind, through the hegemonic use of ideology, it becomes perfectly proper to punish some by beating them to death with staves and burning the others at the stake. No good Christian and true ever backed away from that responsibility when the opportunity to execute God's Rule of Law fell on their capable shoulders. The lesson here seems to be that just when you think the monsters have all been driven from the savage islands of our republic, a House Manager stand forth in the well of the US Senate and demands the death penalty for a President guilty of having had sex in or near an oval.