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Dinesh D'Souza, president of the King's College, a Christian college in New York City, has resigned after reports that he shared a hotel room with a woman to whom he was not married before filing for divorce from his wife. In a statement posted on the college's website Thursday, the president of the Board of Trustees said that D'Souza had resigned, effective immediately, to "allow him to attend to his personal and family needs."
D'Souza, an author and filmmaker who recently released an anti-Obama documentary, "2016: Obama's America," responded with a column on the Fox News website to an article in the evangelical World magazine that said he shared a hotel room with the woman he introduced as his "fiancée." He was not having an affair, he said. "I had no idea that it is considered wrong in Christian circles to be engaged prior to being divorced, even though in a state of separation and in divorce proceedings," D'Souza wrote. "Obviously I would not have introduced Denise as my fiancée at a Christian apologetics conference if I had thought or known I was doing something wrong."
He attributed the story to previous rivalries at the King's College: its former provost, Marvin Olasky, is now editor of World, and resigned shortly after D'Souza, a Roman Catholic, was hired as president of the evangelical college in 2010.
