Evangelical AntiObama-AntiGay Dinesh D’Souza is Caught Committing Adultery at Anti Gay Conference

The evangelical magazine WORLD is reporting that Dinesh D’Souza, whose book The Roots of Obama’s Rage was the basis for his anti-Obama movie 2016, showed up at a Christian conference last month with his fiancé. He shared a hotel room with the young woman, but, he assured a conference organizer in Clinton-esque fashion, “nothing happened.” 

So you figure that conservative Christians might overlook an innocent, pre-marital shared hotel room, right? Perhaps. The real problem is that D’Souza is still married to his wife of 20 years. 

According to WORLD’s Warren Smith, D’Souza, whose $10,000 per speech honoraria places him in the “top tier” of Christian speakers, was in South Carolina to speak at a Baptist church, which was hosting “high-profile Christians speak on defending the faith and applying a Christian worldview to their lives.” (Cue guffaws here.)

Smith describes one conference organizer, Alex McFarland, being “distressed” at the behavior of their celebrity speaker. According to Smith, D’Souza told McFarland that he had “recently” filed for divorce, although Smith found in court records that D'Souza filed for divorce about a week after the South Carolina conference took place.

D’Souza is also the president of The King’s College, and Smith reports that he's expected to be under scrutiny by the school’s board over this incident. (Smith’s boss, Marvin Olasky, resignedhis post as TKC’s provost shortly after D’Souza was named president in 2010.) After TKC began looking into the matter, D’Souza texted Smith: “I have decided to suspend the engagement.”

D’Souza’s “meteoric” (Smith’s word) rise in the evangelical world is due in no small part to his conspiracy-minded claims about President Obama’s “Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior,” as well as his earlier work, What’s So Great About Christianity.

Will this spell the end of D’Souza’s star? Perhaps, or perhaps he will, as many of the heterosexual fallen do, find redemption. But regardless of what the verdict on his marital issues is from evangelicals, the verdict from conservatives on his propagandistic film is already in: they approve.

By Michelle Boorstein

The recent fall of Dinesh D’Souza from the presidency of the evangelical King’s College has multiple killer angles.

One conservative evangelical institution taking down another. Heated (so to speak) debates among religious conservatives about what constitutes infidelity. But to this reporter, the best question is: Why are some evangelicals criticizing World magazine for reporting on D’Souza’s sex life, rather than confronting him privately, as scripture suggests? Does journalism contradict the Bible? Is there no room for a serious, hard-core evangelical Bob Woodward?
Feb. 1, 2007 file photo shows Dinesh D'Souza in Williamsburg, Va. The conservative scholar behind a high-grossing film that condemns President Obama resigned Oct. 18, 2012 as head of an evangelical college after a report about his engagement to a woman while still legally married to his wife. (AP)

News that the well-known political conservative was engaged to someone but still married to someone else was reported by some who would seem like his natural allies – the leadership at World magazine, a publication by, for and about political and Christian conservatives.

It immediately triggered debate, even among some traditionalists, about what, exactly, D’Souza did wrong?

He resigned last Thursday from the small, evangelical New York City college following reports in World that he had been traveling with a woman who was not his wife. D’Souza says he has been separated from his wife for two years, and introduced the woman as his fiancée, but that did little to quiet things down.