I come from a faith tradition which holds that forgiveness holds no force without repentance. I’ve never heard Bristol regret her actions or suggest she was wrong; I’ve only heard that she wished it had happened later.
Every time Bristol has spoken I have listened for any hint of acknowledgement that marriage before parenthood is the appropriate, reasonable and morally corret sequence. Every time Bristol speaks, I DON’T hear that. What I DO hear is that abstinence just isn’t realistic.
I DO object to that sort of moral vandalism, even when it’s dressed up in what has, somehow, become the morally unquestionable virtue of single motherhood.
Where in the Bible does it say our forgiveness toward others depends on someone else’s repentance? We are to forgive 70X7, not on the precondition someone say they’re sorry. I will leave the rest between her and God. God is the one who must be answered to, not us. He knows our hearts.