14 posted on Thu Oct 18 2012 08:13:57 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by Truth29: “Since politics is now a 24/7 blood sport, the reporter and the editor should now be investigated and attacked legally and in the media wherever possible.”
World Magazine is not by any stretch of the imagination a liberal publication. World Magazine is a conservative Christian magazine, definitely on the right wing even of conservative Christian politics, and its editor, Dr. Marvin Olasky, and founding publisher, Joel Belz, are both elders in the Presbyterian Church in America.
Here's the link to the World Magazine article so we know what we're talking about:
http://www.worldmag.com/2012/10/king_s_crisis
I agree that this looks like President Obama’s past “MO” of attacks on his critics. Some might argue this is an Obama story “planted” in a conservative Christian magazine to “launder” the accusation. I've seen that done before, and I've personally been “used” by Democrats to attack fellow Republicans and sometimes fellow conservative Christian Republicans when I was given stuff that I couldn't ignore without being accused of covering them up.
However, we can't credibly say that.
In fact, if anything “smells” about this, it might be that the editor, Dr. Marvin Olasky, resigned from D’Souza’s college a while ago for reasons that were not widely explained in public at the time. At most, maybe someone could argue this is an internal fight based on revenge between World Magazine and Kings College. However, my read of this is that the questionable relationship between D’Souza and this young woman had been known for some time in circles of that college, and World Magazine showed great restraint in not publishing what was being discussed until D’Souza started escorting this woman around in public at conservative Christian venues. It could no longer be ignored at that point.
Divorces, separations, and marriage breakdowns happen in Christian circles. Christian leaders are under tremendous pressures, and I believe they're complicated by Satanic attacks.
When these things happen, we have to follow biblical standards. D’Souza was raised Roman Catholic and he now describes himself as a non-denominational evangelical; his (current) wife is an evangelical. Annulments are not easy in the Roman Catholic Church and I very much hope divorce is not easy in whatever church now holds D’Souza’s membership.
What we cannot do is whitewash the problems as if they don't exist.
For better or for worse, we'll know much more soon.
“What we cannot do is whitewash the problems as if they don’t exist.”
Thanks for setting the record straight regarding the source of the article. I admit I assumed it was the left looking for a way to indirectly diminish the credibility of the movie.
Regarding the relationship with the young woman etc., I don’t think that failing to do what’s right in life is a small matter, but I’m personally way too far from being in a position to judge him. The first thing that comes to my mind in any separation or divorce situation, in which abuse isn’t an issue, is that it is very sad. I wish everyone could make it work once they enter their vows. Divorce is generally one of life’s biggest losses and hurts. If he and his wife are only separated, I hope that somehow they can still make it work.