If God forgave King David, why not Newt Gingrich?

If God forgave King David, why not Newt Gingrich? December 13, 2011

By Becky Garrison
The Guardian

In the state of Iowa, is the former speaker of the US House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich, experiencing his own Field of Dreams? According to a recent poll, Gingrich now has the support of 25% of likely Republican primary voters – up from 7% in late October. Central to his ambition is his need to win over evangelical Christian and conservative Catholic voters. But although his “Contract with America” delivered a Republican majority in congress in 1994, Gingrich, now on his third wife, is a man who has twice left a wife to marry his mistress.

The ingenious solution his handlers have come up with is to compare him to King David. Radio host Steve Deace categorised Gingrich and King David as “two extraordinary men gifted by God, whose lives include very high highs and very low lows”. On the Town Hall website, columnist Dennis Prager reminds his religious readers that God himself thought that King David deserved to remain king – and even have the messiah descend from him – despite a particularly ugly form of adultery (sending Bathsheba’s husband into battle where he would assuredly be killed).
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