{"id":4408,"date":"2008-09-01T11:19:32","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T19:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=4408"},"modified":"2008-09-01T14:28:36","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T22:28:36","slug":"i-am-the-father-of-bristol-palins-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=4408","title":{"rendered":"I Am The Father Of Bristol Palin’s Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"

I appreciate the discretion Palins used in their statement<\/a>, identifying me only by my first Hebrew name: "We ask the media, respect our daughter and Levi’s privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates."<\/p>\n

Now I feel like it is time for me to come forward and accept responsibility.<\/p>\n

I’ve lived a bohemian life. I’ve had some post-conventional relationships.<\/p>\n

This was no way for a moral leader to behave.<\/p>\n

Yisroel Pensack emails: "Why not give credit to the person who first realized you were implicated in this scandal and who fed you this line? See Pirkei Avos 6:6, near the end: ‘Whoever repeats a thing in the name of the one who said it brings redemption to the world…’"<\/p>\n

Only now do I realize that being 99% honest is not enough.<\/p>\n

I ask the media to give me privacy on this matter.<\/p>\n

My other girlfriends have already forgiven me for this as has God and my religious community.<\/p>\n

In April, I made a serious error in judgment and conducted myself in a way that was disloyal to my family and to my core beliefs. I recognized my mistake, and I told my girlfriends that I had a liaison with another woman, and I asked for their forgiveness. Although I was honest in every painful detail with my girls, I did not tell the public.<\/p>\n

I was and am ashamed of my conduct and choices. With my family, I took responsibility for my actions in April, and today I take full responsibility publicly.<\/p>\n

It is inadequate to say to the people who believed in me that I am sorry, as it is inadequate to say to the people who love me that I am sorry.<\/p>\n

In the course of several blogging campaigns, I started to believe that I was special and became increasingly egocentric and narcissistic. If you want to beat me up feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself. I have been stripped bare and will now work with everything I have to help my family and others who need my help.<\/p>\n

You may say this girl was just 17. Well, she was 17 going on 37. I didn’t force her.<\/p>\n

Do what you like to me. Just don’t hurt my baby.<\/p>\n

God bless you and God bless America.<\/p>\n

Here is a picture of my beautiful bride:<\/p>\n

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Fred emails:<\/p>\n

Dear Moral Leader:  <\/p>\n

Your announcement threw me into turmoil.  Now I know how the followers of Jimmy Swaggart or Jim and Tammy Baker must have felt when they learned of their leaders’ moral failure.<\/p>\n

Please tell me–what should I do?  Should I continue to follow Luke Ford as my moral compass?  Or has the time come to seek out some other source of guidance for my tortured soul?  <\/p>\n

The deluge of scandal that has stained Bill Clinton, Senator Edwards and Senator Craig has now stained a man who I thought was above all that.  I feel that I have been cut adrift on the high seas of tawdriness without that anchor and compass I need to see me through.  Luke, where is a soul to turn in times like these?  <\/p>\n

What should I do, Luke?  What should I do?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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