I am not a Newt fan but I have heard him address this issue before, particularly the serial womanizing which appears to be a weakness of many powerful men. I am also a Catholic convert and can say with certainty that Catholic theology does not deal with human imperfection as a circumstance of simply being “born again.” For that reason alone, I would imagine that had you been “a bug on the wall” during his religious instruction, you might have well refrained from the judgment you now seem so willing to make about Gingrich and his religion.
Did you hear this part?
Since his conversion, what I have seen from him is grotesque chutzpah as he has denied his despicable treatment of his ex-wife and even tried to paint serial adultery as a consequence of his intense love of country.“There’s no question that at times in my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard, and that things happened in my life that were not appropriate.”For the sake of argument, let’s completely check our brains at the door and believe this disgusting excuse for his double treason toward his family. What conclusion should we draw from it? My conclusion is, “For the sake of his soul, never let this man near power again just as I would never reassign a pedophile priest to work with children again.” But according to Newt, the solution to the corrupting effects of power that, by his own admission, led to his downfall is to make him the most powerful man on earth........I remember the Gingrich conservatives who said of the phonily contrite Bill Clinton, “If a man will lie to and betray his own wife, why should you think he will tell the truth to his constituents?”
-- excerpted from Mark Shea's 11/24 blog entry titled Why I Will No More Vote for Gingrich Than Obama