Excuse me, Lauren, but you're skirting pretty close to breaking the 9th Commandmant not to bear false witness. THE TRUTH, no matter how much you'd like to deny it, is that you personally have ZERO ZILCH NADA NULL idea whether or not Newt "destroyed the heart of a wife." NONE of us except Newt, Marianne, and the Almighty Himself, can know OR JUDGE what happened in that situation. We can and DO rightly judge Newt on his political record, some judging him harshly, some judging him more easily. THAT is SOLELY where your judgment of Newt should reside as well, FRiend -- on his POLITICAL record.
Biblical morality is the very source of our founding principles -- and withholding judgment on such personal failings as infidelity, and leaving it to GOD instead, IS PART OF BIBLICAL MORALITY.
I knew that Gingrich and Marianne had a troubled marriage, but I never knew just how troubled it was until I read the Best of the Web on WSJ, today.
Marianne called Gingrich on his birthday (around 1987) and told him that she was leaving him. He went home to find his house emptied. They signed a formal separation agreement and maintained separate residences for about six years. The separation agreement was signed, but never legally filed.
For some reason, they reconciled in ‘93 or ‘94, but is was never a happy marriage.
How many men would reconcile with a woman who once left them and took everything with her?