Know what? You cast the first stone, I need mercy too much not to be merciful and I recall very avidly that the Jews accused Jesus of most of the things in those verses. In fact the Talmud teaches that Jesus was a bastard conceived during a menstrual period (which means He is cursed, too).
I don't figure I know anyone who can judge Laura Bush righteously because the Bible tells me that I (and in effect each other human) does not know his own heart therefore one is not fit to judge the heart of another.
You are welcome to fit this into whatever is required in your book but I have learned that what is forbidden/required of one is not necessarily forbidden/required of another.
You are entirely welcome to view it your way. I might wish she hadn't but for my part she is still whoever she was and she only really has to fear the Lord and please her husband.
Nowhere do I read that she has to please me or the Nation.
Ecc 3:1 To every [thing there is] a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
God is neither a scribe nor a Pharisee otherwise he should have done something other than reward Rahab and the Hebrew midwives for telling lies--as much Scripture as there is about lying; or David for eating the shewbread when hungry.
Really, FRiend?
What about the admonition to preachers and elders, etc. about being held to a higher standard?
Is not Laura Bush a leader of this country (leading through example?)?
It's not a case of me "throwing the first stone" which you would have ascertained had you cared enough to read all of my posts on this thread.
You want to water down what is sin and what is not, be my guest. 'Pod.