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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: W.F.Rakecky who wrote (6998)	9/25/1998 10:49:00 PM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 13994

Heard some of the clergymen counseling the boy accidentally spilt holy water on him and sent him a howl'n. Reuters September 23, 1998 uncredited WASHINGTON, Sept 23 - Two clergymen counseling President Bill Clinton about his illicit affair with a former White House intern vowed in an interview broadcast on Wednesday to be tough with the president on his journey of repentance. Clinton has been receiving weekly spiritual counseling to hold him ''accountable for his behavior'' following a soul-baring confession before a group of religious leaders at the White House last Friday, at which he repented for his affair with Monica Lewinsky and vowed to better himself. ''I am concerned about a man whose soul is in mortal danger,'' Rev. Tony Campolo, an American Baptist pastor and professor of sociology at Eastern College in St. David's, Pennsylvania, told ABC's ''20/20''. ''When we're down there with the president, we're not just going to walk in and do a 15-minute, how're doing, here's a verse of scripture, a verse a day will keep the devil away,'' Campola said. "We won't let him off easily. Campola, a liberal social activist, and Rev. Gordon MacDonald, of the Grace Chapel Protestant church in Lexington, Massachusetts, said they were taking an activist approach to the counseling requested by Clinton. Their talks with Clinton were difficult and confrontational, the men said in the ABC interview. ''When a person asks you if you'd come in, and says, 'I want to be accountable to you,' he's opening the door for you to ask tough questions, to suggest disciplines which might mean a turn in the road, a changed kind of life,'' MacDonald told ABC. ''We have gone to the bottom with this man. We have said things that are very, very confrontative,'' he added. Campola said the counseling sessions had prompted Clinton to lose his temper and shout at his advisers. ''We have come on so strong that he ended up yelling at us .... And that's when conversations become real, isn't it?''