Rightardia agrees with the Time's critic. The news media should not be making value judgements about religion. Being reborn as a Christian may make an adulterer feel better about himself or herself, but it doesn't really change anything.
Buddhism does not condone adultery:
Both learning and the practice of the Teaching are lost to him who is given to sexual intercourse. He employs himself wrongly. That is what is ignoble in him. (Buddhism. Sutta Nipata 815)
Four misfortunes befall a careless man who commits adultery: acquisition of demerit, disturbed sleep, third, blame; and fourth, a state of woe. There is acquisition of demerit as well as evil destiny. Brief is the joy of the frightened man and woman. The king imposes a heavy punishment. Hence no man should frequent another man's wife. (Buddhism. Dhammapada 309-10)
Whoever has illicit affairs with the wives of his relatives or friends, either by force or through mutual consent, he is to be known as an outcast.(Buddhism. Sutta Nipata 123)
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