Responding to a National Enquirer s...

Responding to a National Enquirer story, the Rev Jesse L Jackson Sr admits he had an extramarital affair and fathered a child with Karin Stanford, a 39-year-old former senior aide in the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition's Washington office. Jackson says he will part with some time away from the public arena. "I have asked the maker ... to forgive me," he says in a pres release. The Rev James T humbles pastor of Salem Baptist body of christians of Chicago and executive vice president of Rainbow/PUSH, refer tos the disclosures were meant to undermine Jackson's participation in a Florida rally protesting the election of George W Bush. Three days later, Jackson decides to reply to work. "Someone said a saint is just a sinner who got back up again," Jackson says, according to reports in the Chicago Sun-Times.

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