When murderer, persecutor of Christians Paul of Tarsus was slain by ascended Jesus on the Road to Damascus, the Holy Spirit tutored Paul in the Arabian desert for three years before Paul moved out into the Judeo-Christian public. After all, all Paul had known prior was misdirected religious fanaticism. That was not cleared from his head in a short stint in Damascus. Time was needed to redirect thoroughly a mortal once headed pell-mell in the devil’s direction.
So it is with three-time married, sexually promiscuous Gingrich. This man is complex, to say the least. For not being a Hollywood debonair type, he surely has had his illicit sexual encounters on numerous occasions.
Further, he knows how to deceive with aplomb. While Bill Clinton was playing his own tawdry games with Monica Lewinsky, Gingrich played the holiness role of castigating the President. All the while, Gingrich was hiding his own sexual immorality behind closed doors.
At the same time, to feed his political opportunism, Gingrich went on and on to the press on how America needed leaders who were morally unsullied. The country was in a moral crisis. It was pleading for men and women of character, according to lay preacher Gingrich.
Gingrich has already showed us that he can compartmentalize his brain and soul. He can call on one compartment to preach morality while at the very same moment use another compartment to unzip his trousers.
Now he’s bowing at the mourner’s bench, crying repentance to an evangelical leader Dobson and fundamentalist leader Falwell. I would not be surprised if his next stop is to some well-known pentecostal spokesman. By then he will have networked with the Protestant biblical community on all three fronts — evangelical, fundamentalist, and pentecostal. One cannot get any cleverer than that if he wants to suck in the biblical believers’ vote in a few months. But I really don't think the three fronts are that stupid. I believe that Gingrich and Falwell are in for their own grand awakening.
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