From Richmond-
Could you forgive Anthony Weiner?
Or Arnold Schwarzenegger? Or Jim Tressel? Or Tiger Woods? Or any of a score of figures whose moral lapses have become painfully public?
If recovery of public status is a measure of forgiveness, then Eliot Spitzer has certainly been forgiven. The former New York governor is now a commentator on CNN.
What, then, is forgiveness? Clearly something has changed after scandal broke. Spitzer is no longer described as "disgraced" or even as the "former governor." Nor are there apparent hesitations about his new media presence. Yet his dalliances with call girls were more than enough to cause him to leave office.
When this aspect of his private life became known, he was morally weakened and forced to resign. Has he now been forgiven? How? Why? Is there something we can learn about forgiveness from his moral lapse and from the lapses of other public figures?
More here-
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/lifestyles/2011/jul/02/tdmet01-faith-amp-values-could-you-forgive-anthony-ar-1147131/
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