These attacks on spouses are getting pretty rediculous (the post last night attacking Rick's wife for living with a guy when was 22 were particularly sleezy).
On the other hand, it's kind of sad that at a meeting of evangelical christians, there were men who would make the claim above, as if sex outside of marriage, and sex with a married man, were no longer of any concern to the evangelical community, so long as you eventually get married. Marriage is failing, and that is one of the reasons why.
It has NOTHING to do with her being a fine first lady, which she surely is. Forgiveness is a fine trait, but not dismissal. It's not about her, it's about the flippant treatment of the sin by these spiritual leaders.
Dobson was crass, although also accurate. And sometimes when you sin, though you can have forgiveness, you can't undo the sin -- she will always be the woman who slept with a married man. That's not disqualifying, and it certainly has nothing to do with picking a Presidential candidate.
As much as I love you Christians, I don’t get the “forgiveness” thing and I never will. In my religion you can only forgive those who hurt / sinned against YOU personally. The gingriches did nothing to me personally. So I don’t need to forgive them. And if their church and Gd himself has forgiven them, I say Mazel Tov. But this doesn’t change the fact that he was wholly untrustworthy, not once, but it sounds like steadily for years. And she was not a very nice person, sleeping with another woman’s man. The type of woman to do this is not stable or kind or moral. Even if she was later forgiven by that wife. Then kind of man to do as Gingrich did is a needy man interested in his basest desires over the needs of others. He doesn’t show any tendencyto put his needs aside for those of Thr country. It will always be Newt first.
I’d vote for him to stop Rominee, but I would be worried about a President Gingrich. There are always red flags before you get involved with the wrong person, er, President.