Conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza steps down from Manhattan evangelical Christian college after

Conservative pundit Dinesh D’Souza was forced to quit as president of an evangelical Christian college in Manhattan after it came to light that he became engaged to a young woman while he was still married.

D’Souza, 51, had brought his 29-year-old fiancée to a religious conference, and they shared a hotel room.

His resignation from The King’s College was announced Thursday by Andy Mills, chairman of the institution’s board of trustees.

A former Ronald Reagan aide, D’Souza is a best-selling conservative author and director of the controversial documentary “2016: Obama’s America” — which cast a critical eye at the President’s upbringing and early influences. The film has grossed more than $33.4 million in the United States, making it the fourth-most successful documentary of all time.

8 posted on Fri Oct 19 2012 08:06:13 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by vonkayel: “Honest question for evangelicals: why do so many evangelical Christians tolerate divorce when Jesus spoke so clearly about it in the Gospel? With so much literal interpretation of the Old Testament, it has always seemed odd to me that Protestants view the words of Jesus himself as ‘negotiable.’”

You have a valid point.

The difference between evangelical Protestants and traditional Roman Catholics on this issue has been obscured by the massive collapse of marriage in America — and that is not just a Protestant problem, unfortunately. Easy annulments are not exactly unheard of in Roman Catholic circles, though to the credit of Catholics, at least they have maintained a stronger stance on the importance of marriage.

While there are differences about whether marriage is a sacrament and about remarriage after a biblically legitimate divorce (which basically means adultery) the gross tolerance of easy divorce and remarriage is an evangelical scandal.

One of the few good things I can say about evangelical churches on this issue is that the more seriously a denomination or local church takes doctrine, the more likely it is to have a strong emphasis on why divorce is wrong. It's the “loosey goosey” evangelical megachurches and their wannabee little brothers — the types of churches that are more likely to emphasize fun youth groups and loud music, and more likely to offer deep rich cocoa-flavored coffee than deep biblical exegesis from the pulpit — which are not demanding high standards in many areas of people's personal lives.

That problem of low standards for membership and discipleship is bigger than marriage, though it certainly is a big part of the bad fruit brought about by low standards and lack of church discipline.

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