Which Values?

From Homiletics magazine:
At election time, we Christians are often encouraged to "vote our values." Yet the real question is: What are the values we're supposed to vote?
The truth is, many people who use that phrase have a rather limited range of values in mind. What they're talking about, to be perfectly frank, is sex. What's often conspicuously absent from their so-called moral discussion is any mention of that other great moral topic: money.
In the Bible, money issues are just as much a part of morality as are questions of sexual ethics. This is crystal clear in Colossians 3:5 -- "Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry)."
Too often we are willing to uphold "biblical morality," citing the first part of the verse, but not so willing to consider the second. There you have it, in black and white; it couldn't be more clear. The Bible considers greed to be just as serious a moral failing as licentious behavior.
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What's the deal with such selective blindness? Is it that if we focus on the sins WE'RE not doing, then we draw attention away from the ones we are? But, IS THAT HONEST?

Oh, Lord, give me an honest heart ... one that can see (and take care of) MY sins. Only then may I pray for and lovingly counsel those who may be involved in some other form of self-destruction. Amen.