The yardstick isn't bilious misogynists' capacity for sordid gossip. The yardstick is Isaiah 1:18 "Though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool."

As far as anybody knows, Callista Gingrich has been faithful to her husband twenty-two years and has been reconciled to the Church in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. The fact that so many people with unsavory proclivities of their own can't stop harping on something she did more than two decades ago says something very distasteful about them, not about her.