I really do not see it as a problem to ask someone who is in a position of leadership to have high moral standards. But it seems that the world sees it as a problem when someone has high standards.
I believe the bible puts it as such:
so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
1Pe 4:3 For the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, [fn]having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties and [fn]abominable idolatries.
( So here you see that the pledge is not outside of what a BIBLE College would expect)
1Pe 4:4 In all this, they are surprised that you do not run with them into the same excesses of dissipation, and they malign you;
(Here you see the expectation by God that the general public will be freaked out and be abusive if you do not go along with their lifestyle)
1Pe 4:5 but they will give account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
(And here you see that being freaked out or being abusive towards someone else with higher standards will not work to excuse low morals. All people will still be Judged by a Holy God, the everyone else said it was OK excuse will not wash)
I really do not see it as a problem to ask someone who is in a position of leadership to have high moral standards.
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Nor do I.
Tell me how having a beer while watching the Orioles play baseball at Camden Yards on a hot summer night has anything to do with “a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties and [fn]abominable idolatries”?
And yes, I find the suggestion that drinking a beer in public as demonstrative of someone lacking high moral standards absurd. Sorry.