Posted on 10/18/2012 11:27:36 AM PDT by HokieMom
There has been no evidence of anything.
I’ve never known you to be interested in moral absolutes, what changed you all of a sudden? The chance to pile on to a social conservative?
That’s what I figured. You are overjoyed to see the apparent moral lapse on the part of a conservative. Apparent, because the facts are not in. Most fun you’ve had in days, probably.
BTW your posting history is very interesting.
Oh, and you are an absolutist.
You have absolute faith in your own exalted intellect and scorn for everyone else, especially those who believe in God. Or, apparently, are social conservatives.
He’s not my idol. And you don’t know the facts. Your glee at hoping a conservative who incidentally recently made a movie revealing 0bastard’s communist past has fallen morally is very - revealing.
Your posting history is actually very boring. And not one conservative pinch of a viewpoint expressed in 3 or 4 pages of comments. The below sums it up besides you hatred of anyone who uses the US flag as a garment.
1. Stormer knows everything and everyone else is braindead.
2. Anyone who doesn’t believe in evolution is braindead.
3. Stormer is the greatest genius of all time.
4. Romney is stupid and Ryan is a liar.
5. No national leader is worthy of your august vote.
6. Stormer is the smartest person on FR - nay, in the whole universe. And everyone except Stormer deserves Stormer’s scorn.
7. Stormer Knows All.
Etc.
I realize that sometimes marriages fail due to valid reasons. I know this also from personal experience.
I do not know the cause of D’Souza’s marriage failure, although he did say that his wife asked for the separation. Apparently his fiancee has a blog which I have not seen, maybe that sheds more light on this. Stormer, the ultimate genius and brainiac of FR and all known lands, gave his sage assessment of it above, but no link.
Until the facts come out, I am with holding judgement. I am not going to slam someone for a failed marriage which was not their fault; until I know more, I can only say “I don’t know”. If he was at fault, then and only then can others pass judgement on him.
If D’Souza was, as the Genius of All Time and Place Stormer opined, “banging” a woman not his wife, then he deserves whatever condemnation gets, and he will get it from me.
Until more evidence, admission of wrong doing or any other sort of truth is made public, no one at this point knows. Despite that fact that stormer admits that he Knows All, in fact he doesn’t, and very few other people do at this point.
On the other thread which I linked several times, D’Souza claims the fiancee and he had separate hotel rooms. Someone is lying and eventually we will know. And since Stormer the Great Brain admitted that he just luvs when social conservatives fall, since he is not a believer in moral absolutes (although he has absolute faith in his own genius and mental and intellectual superiority over every other human, bot in the past, present and future), he delights in the falldowns or moral lapses of others, especially if they are social conservatives.
Obvious troll, I will make sure all your posts and articles are obliterated.
Hmmm, looks like you were correct.
Makes you wonder why they waste so much time.
That is not true. Conservatives need to clean up our own house.
There is a reason why D’Souza is no longer at King's College; no matter what he did or did not do, he needs to get his personal life in order before he can serve in a public position as the head of a Christian college that takes the Bible seriously. Personally, I am extremely unhappy to learn that the Board of Trustees apparently knew about D’Souza’s marriage problems for years and let him become president in the first place. Much of this could have been handled behind-the-scenes with a quiet resignation or a study leave before it all blew up in just about the most public possible way, three weeks before a presidential election in which D’Souza’s work was directly involved in attacking a candidate.
This may have been a disaster waiting to happen. When this is all over, the Board of Trustees needs to answer some hard questions about what they knew and when they knew it.
13 posted on Thu Oct 18 2012 13:50:35 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by Uncle Slayton: “Suppose you found verifiable information that a person who wrote a book or produced a movie that was critical of Sarah Palin or Mitt Romney had transgressed their marriage vows, would you take steps to publicize that information?”
Absolutely yes... no ifs, ands, or buts.
The problem is not merely the accusation of infidelity, but also the accusation of hypocrisy. If D’Souza were a tough-as-nails retired Army NCO who openly admitted to lots of womanizing in his past, I would not be happy but I'd be a lot less concerned. That hypothetical Army NCO established his credibility by his military service. D’Souza established his credibility by his defense of traditional Christian values, and that has now been called into very serious question.
Slayton, I know you're asking about a bookwriter or a filmmaker, but the same standard applies to anyone in public life, and especially candidates for public office.
Granted, I might be happier unearthing dirt on Mitt Romney (not that I think there is any — the guy seems squeaky clean), but I would do exactly the same thing, with a lot of sadness, even if the candidate involved was my favorite person ever running for public office.
Preferably, any seriously damaging information needs to get out to the public early in the primary season. If voters want to elect someone with a bad past, it needs to be widely known long in advance so it can be clear to everyone whether the past sins are part of a continuing pattern, or whether the repentance is real.
Likewise, if the accusations are false, the candidate needs time to rebut them. Many men in positions of political power attract women who know how to manipulate them, and there is a difference between being tempted to commit adultery and actually committing adultery. Right now all we know for sure is that D’Souza has done some things that look really foolish at best, but we don't yet know that he's done more than get himself into a very compromising situation that is extremely difficult to explain.
Unfortunately, this article by Christianity Today not only largely confirms the original World Magazine report but also includes some troubling comments about the future direction of the college.
This is not good. It looks as if D’Souza will not be the only casualty of this situation — the college itself may end up losing its Christian activist mission.
We'll all know more soon.
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Dinesh D’Souza Resigns as President of The King's College
School may now shift from his emphasis on conservative politics.
By Melissa Steffan [posted 10/18/2012 11:58AM]
D’Souza denies sleeping in the same hotel room. Either he’s lying or the other guys are lying.
It would be edifying to know who is telling the truth. If he’s telling the truth, then IMHO he has done nothing wrong; provided he has not been at fault in the breakup of his marriage.
We agree — somebody is lying. I see no way around that.
However, I cannot see any possible way that this statement, reported in the Christian Post and Christianity Today and D’Souza’s own website, can possibly be reconciled with proper conduct by a Christian college president:
“3. I sought out advice about whether it is legal to be engaged prior to being divorced and I was informed that it is. Denise and I were trying to do the right thing. I had no idea that it is considered wrong in Christian circles to be engaged prior to being divorced, even though in a state of separation and in divorce proceedings. Obviously I would not have introduced Denise as my fiancé at a Christian apologetics conference if I had thought or known I was doing something wrong. But as a result of all this, and to avoid even the appearance of impropriety, Denise and I have decided to suspend our engagement.”
http://www.dineshdsouza.com/archives/news/response-to-world-magazine/
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D’Souza is denying some of the accusations against him, but not this one. This one is pretty bad, and in and of itself, should cause serious questions for the president of a Christian college.
My bottom line question is this — with so much riding on this election, and literally tens of millions of dollars of financial incentives to boot, why couldn't D’Souza have kept his relationship with this woman, who he apparently just met a few months ago, on hold until ***AFTER THE ELECTION!!!***
One might think that D’Souza would be too busy in the campaign to have time for any romantic relationship, let alone one like this that could destroy everything he's worked for professionally, personally, and politically.
But sometimes people just don't think. Sin is real, and Satan is always looking for an opportunity to attack.
Sure looks like he found one this time.
Alluding to Psalm 1, maybe D’Souza wasn't yet sitting in the seat of scoffers, but he surely was standing in bad places and beginning to walk in some wrong ways. Men who are separated from their wives look for ways to avoid offense and stay away from temptations, not to create occasions that call their judgment into serious question.
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