I agree. If he'd admitted that he met a good-looking woman and thought about starting a *personal* conversation with her, would that wipe out his entire career? It doesn't seem to me that it should.
I suppose the thing about visiting Ashley Madison is that, in retrospect, it seems really, really dumb. Of course, a year or more ago, one couldn't know that the name and email address of everyone who ever visited the site would be made public.
Yes, it was dumb on enouh levels it deserves a really, really.
But if things are as the confess-er confessed---
Guilty of being dumb, and guilty of contemplating seeking out titillation (with the enhanced charge of dumb refactored into the equation) still sounds relatively small compared to extremes I'd just as soon not think about.
Maybe he could remarry instead. It would be no offense in Christian religious sense.
My wife and I met playing quarters at a party when we were young. December will mark 30 years of marriage for two imperfect souls. If God could not use man’s sinful nature to work His perfect will, then He would be powerless in this world.
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.