Kendall Harmon, canon theologian for the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina, said it’s \u201cpart of our duty as Christians\u201d\u009d to forgive Sanford. But it will be a particularly difficult process for those who saw him as a presidential hopeful, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like there was a lot of hope in him, so I think the disillusionment is that much greater,\u201d\u009d he said.<\/p>\n
But people should reserve judgment, because there \u201cbut for the grace of God go all the rest of us,\u201d\u009d Harmon said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe story of David and Bathsheba is in the Bible for a reason,\u201d\u009d he said, a reference to the story of an adulterous relationship between the king of Israel and the wife of a soldier. \u201cPeople’s naivety about their vulnerability to these kinds of problems boggles my mind.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n