"should have any bearing on his standing or acceptance within the "Christian" community?"
Is his sin any different or worse than what we all do every day? He should lose any platform or audience or public hearing but his acceptance or not should be determined by how we deal with anyone who is living in sin (present lawyers excepted).
I wasn't commenting so much on the sin itself but on the propensity to continue in the sin, and repeat it.
At last count, Hal is on wife number 4. It's difficult to think that the first three Mrs. Lindseys were all guilty of adultery or desertion against poor Hal.
The way Christians deal with sin is through repentance and forgiveness by the garace of Christ. Hal seems to have skipped the first part of that and tried to go right to the second, counting on the suckers listening to him on TV and reading his books and web site.
Christians turn away from sin. Public figures, especially those who profess to be teachers in the church, are particularly culpable. "My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment." (James 3:1)
It think this is an example of what the theologists call "cheap grace".