In the weeks since Senator John Ensign (R-NV) decided to man up go public with his affair before somebody else did, it has become a rarely mentioned footnote, relegated to the annals of Republican sex scandals. That is no longer the case.
And after yesterday's interview with the husband of the woman Ensign had an affair with, we now know that there was more to the intervention that was held in the months after Ensign got sloppy with his text messaging.
Hampton and Ensign were bonded by their conservative evangelical faith. Hampton said he reached out to intermediaries involved in a Christian fellowship home in Washington, D.C., where Ensign and several other powerful Washington figures live. [...]
During the confrontation, Ensign agreed to write a letter to Cynthia Hampton expressing remorse, Hampton said.
A few excerpts from the letter:
What I did with you is wrong. I was completely self-centered and only thinking of myself. I used you for my own pleasure ... I betrayed everything I believe in. I lied to myself over and over ...
Plain and simple, it was wrong; it was a sin. God never intended for us to do this. I walked away from Him and my relationship with Him has suffered terribly. I know He love me and I know He loves you. He wants to restore Darlene and me and He wants to restore Doug and you.
More than that He wants to restore our relationship to Him.
And after writing that, Ensign continued with the affair for the next six months. This takes the joke about "sternly written letters" to a whole new level.