This guy abandoned his wife AND HIS KIDS. The God of the Bible -- either the New Testament or the Old -- doesn't find such behavior trivial.
But I'm not holding Hutchinson up to a religious standard, I'm saying what he's done is SOCIALLY DESTRUCTIVE, because the epidemic of men abandoning their families is DESTRUCTIVE OF SOCIETY - it breeds fatherless kids and juvenile delinquency. A man in a high place who sets such an example for others is doing a particularly destructive act. When this society had standards - as recently as a couple of generations ago - - men who abandoned their families were essentially KILLING THEIR CAREERS, because it was considered not just shameful but very destructive to the people who were directly victimized and to the larger society. This is STILL the result of such behavior, only people in our anything-goes age are too blind or corrupt to see it. By the way, the abortion explosion is a byproduct of the same selfish irresponsibility in sexual and family matters that Hutchinson has exhibited, so I don't at all need him to defend pro-life. He'd help most by setting an example and withdrawing from public life in recognition that he's done a very bad thing to his family - and he should not be looked up to. By the way, read Morris's bio of Theodore Roosevelt and see what a true manly man had to say about the evils of adultery and family-abandonment. TR was no evangelical christian, merely an upright man who believe in keeping one's commitments above all.