A great mystery in life is the evangelical's forgiveness of divorce. One can comb the Old and New Testament for information about all sorts of failings but none seems to be repeatedly pointed out, especially by Christ in the New Testament, as much as divorce. Even the great bugaboo homosexuality doesn't get as much biblical ink. Yet the evangelical movement positively ignores it. One would think that the fundamentalists would be burning heretics in the street in celebratory bonfires extolling the monogamous Romney but no, they like the thrice divorced Gingrich. One can say that Romney is a shunned sect member but Gingrich is a Catholic convert and historically that is much worse; the South wouldn't even vote for Kennedy.
Perhaps it is a wonderful acceptance and confidence in forgiveness, the born again renewal that allows marital errors to be erased and life to start anew.
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