Shame on the washington post .
It seems you’ve missed the point of the opinion piece.
It’s a commentary on how United Airlines and certain news outlets are doing a smear job on the passenger that UA beat up and put in the hospital.
The writer is showing how even someone as holy as Jesus could be smeared by the authorities. It also makes the point that a person’s previous, unrelated actions should not be brought up to further victimize an innocent person.
Especially when you consider that there’s now evidence that the “sordid details” of this doctor’s life are actually details from the life of another man with a similar name (but different middle name).