This is not the same, but in a similar vein. Bear with me. I was a member of a mega church, a strong, conservative one, with a well-known evangelical Author and Theologian as pastor. We had 3 campuses. One of the campuses had a young (say, 28-30) year old man helping with music. He had admitted to the elders in private that he had been addicted to homosexual pornography for many years, without any physical involvement with another man. Never dated a woman. His musical skills, and his stage presence was professional and excellent. People started asking him and the pastors/elders to have him hired as Musical/Worship pastor. When that process came around, his proclivities, sins, addiction started to kind of become public knowledge. The Elders came to the conclusion that his willingness to be subject to a process of repentance, rejection of homosexual ideas. etc were thorough enough to allow him to lead worship. Except for a couple elders. And what happened is that the elders made public his struggles and in the process, put soft edges on his years long addiction. Those couple elders made their objections official in writing.
What ended up happening? In my opinion, his powerful. charismatic personality outweighed the moral questions. One of those questioning elders, who had been an elder for over 20 years, left the church quietly.
My point is this: I've had a lot of experience working with pastors/elders who have fallen, being one myself. Going back into ministry always depends on the particular congregation, how well they have been instructed in what the Scriptures actually teach on the issue in question, and even more, how good of a preacher he is. There tends to be a lot of grace given to guys who are really good speakers. Not saying that is good or bad. Just saying it.
