all of the time. This time is no exception. The former Congressman and Governor of South Carolina is running for Congressional election again, Mark Sanford. He got into a mess when he was Governor because he said he was hiking on the Appalachian Trail while it later came out he was cavorting with a South American woman.. Now he is appearing on ads asking the public to "forgive him" for his dalliance and untruthfulness. We will see what the public thinks. (I might add that he voted to impeach President Clinton when he was a Congressman for his affair.)
I also might add that there are two levels of "forgiveness" to consider --and there is a true difference between human forgiveness and divine forgiveness. I will leave the latter level to Mark and to his Creator for that has nothing to do with the humanity of his act. There are all kinds of studies that show that the person who forgives is much happier in the end. That is hardly debatable. But what about the person who needs to be forgiven--is that person genuinely changed by his/her experience or is this some kind of duping so that people will elect the person or that the guilty person can go on unscathed by his/her conduct! To me, that is the question facing the South Carolina voter!
Most of them will not consider that they will be making a judgement, in the end, about whether a person should be forgiven regardless of whether he is running for office or running for the city limits or running for restoration.
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