In the year 1632 the British Corporation of Barker and Lucas produced a handsomely bound edition of scripture. Unfortunately they made one significant mistake in the hundreds of pages of impeccable print. At the inclusion of the Seventh Commandment of the decalogue, they inadvertently omitted the negative from the verse so that the law read, "Thou shalt commit adultery." The printers were so heavily fined for their carelessness that the mistake put them out of business. This famous edition has forever been tagged The Adulterous Bible.

Adultery is a terrible thing to be famous for. Ask our President. From the royal family of Britain to our own first family in America--from Frank Gifford of television fame to Gospel singer Sandi Patti--to the head of the National Baptist Convention Rev. Hen…