let's bring in dan gillgof, religious editor for cnn.com. joins us from des moines.e written an article for cnn's belief blog concerning newt gingrich, titled "newt gingrich's faith journey," how a thrice married catholic became an evangelical darling, good to see you. let's begin with the opening premise in your article, but then i want to put it in question form, has newt gingrich repented enough for his sins to be president? according to people that you talked to? >> well, there's actually a debate going on right now about this. there was an open letter by a very prominent evangelical head of public policy for the southern baptist convention calling on newt gingrich to repent more, to give a public speech about his three marriages, about his affair with his current wife when he was married to his second wife, and to apologize for it. and i think what was kind of surprising about the letter is that as opposed to galvanizing evangelical support for a big speech like that from gingrich all these prominent evangelicals came out in defense of gingrich and said wait a m