"Relationships" is plural,,, "rehab" is usually confined to drugs or alcohol. My gut is saying the wifey Carpenter is undergoing reparative therapy because she violated (depending on your POV) Romans 1:26-28: For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient,,, Either that or she being treated for a sex-addiction
Last weekend, one of the nation’s most prominent Pentecostal pastors bared his soul to say something no one wants to admit publicly. Ron Carpenter Jr., founder of Redemption World Outreach Center in Greenville, S.C., told thousands of his congregants on Oct. 13 that his wife of 23 years, Hope, had been involved in inappropriate relationships and that she had been admitted to a rehab facility.
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I find it most irritating when such public figures, involving such public issues, don't adequately disclose sufficient facts upon which the public can make informed decisions/opinions.
ReplyDeleteOne more recent commenter over there wrote the following regarding the situation, and then suggested more secrecy, not less, would be approrpriate (as others have also suggested):
- "(W)hen you love your wife and cherish her,
- why would you tell the world (as is now the
- case) that she is in psychiatric care, one
- of the worst cases ever, severe mental
- issues for ten years (that in itself leads to
- other questions), had multiple affairs and
- that you are not going to reconcile with her.
It was indicated in the article and comments that the preacher may already be scouting for a second wife and his current wife may be expected to move along that same course whether seeking future male or female relationships.
But "I could be wrong about that" given the secrecy regarding the details.
In another high profile case, of sorts, and one in which I have been watching, it seems to me that the wife of Kent Hovind has been kept under wraps since "standing by her man" and suffering the indignity of going to federal prison for a year, losing her home, and now having millions of dollars of personal income tax liabilities hanging over her head.
What is the Hovind family doing to her and for her?
What is her mental and physical state?
Will Jo Hovind be allowed/forced to suffer in silence to protect the family business/ministry while supporters beg for "privacy"?
Those Catholic priests and Sandusky should have had it so good! Oh, wait, they did have it so good...for awhile!