“Ensign was separated from his wife at the time.”
He was married, seperated is still married, when he slept with another man’s, supposedly his friend, wife.
He betrayed his marriage vows and his friendship.
He dumped the honey to reunite with his wife and his husband of his former honey who was his former friend wanted revenge so he threatened to go public and spill the beans. So if the former friend hadn’t tried to blackmail him, would he have confessed? No.
Do I feel sorry for Ensign? NO. A marriage vow is sacred.
Exactly, he has proven that his word means nothing. Why should we trust him for anything else?
From my limited reading, it appears he did confess to his wife, the other woman and the woman's husband, in private like a Christian should. What he did was a sin and inexcusable, but he handles his sin in a Biblical manner.