Thanks David, you present an interesting view. I appreciate the moral of those stories. It is true that we are judgemental about people's personal lives and should avoid that. But for leaders we need to be.

Leaders should embody our finest ideals by intention and action.

First impressions do count, and consistency of effort also. The question may be raised, if a person is dishonest in marriage, what else?

Icarus - thankyou for your response.

I guess what I’m trying to get at are those “wolves in sheep’s skin” who hold themselves out as the candidates of choice to our unassuming voters every five years simply because they are the ultimate righteous person. I have seen people dismissing some very good candidates not on the basis of the merits of their messages, arguments and intentions but on petty personal indiscretions. And I think we do ourselves more bad and good with such practices.

I’m not advocating for adulterers and certainly not exalting them other than to point out some of the paradoxes found in the bible that teaches a morality that most Papua New Guineans subscribe to.