John Ensign, Chip Pickering, Mark Sanford all prayed at C Street
(NEWSER) - When they learned of his affair, John Ensign’s housemates confronted him. They told him he was ruining his marriage, and offending God. In attendance, as Ensign broke down crying, were Republicans and Democrats alike, all residents of 133 C Street, a kind of boarding house for Christian lawmakers. Chip Pickering lived there, too, and Mark Sanford came often to pray, so when their respective sex scandals became public, the house, and the secretive organization that runs it, became in the public imagination a kind of rambunctious, Bible-thumping frat house. Residents began to flee the place. More»
