Jenny Sanford

Last week it was reported that Jenny Sanford, wife of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, would be moving out of the governor’s residence to a home on Sullivan’s Island, S.C., about 120 miles east. In late June, it was publicly revealed that Sanford had an extramarital affair with an Argentine woman — an affair Jenny Sanford knew about since January. Jenny Sanford has told the media that she would give her husband another chance, but that reconciliation would “not be easy.

Infidelity is in the news with the recent development of Jenny Sanford — wife of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford — filing for divorce after 20 years of marriage. The world’s No. 1 golfer, Tiger Woods, also admitted to infidelity. It’s not new in the celebrity world, but what does your faith teach about infidelity? Are we truly damned if we cheat on our wives or husbands?   “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” of course, is one of the Ten Commandments; and in Jewish law was punishable by death.