We can’t run from God’s moral law within us nor the consequences that occur from violating His law. It’s akin to someone putting on a cape, going up on a roof, and throwing themselves off, saying they are going to find happiness in breaking the law of gravity. All that happens is you end up proving the law of gravity and breaking yourself in the process.

I need you to help me out with something. I’m a little confused about this Astronomer-married-CEO-caught-with-his-girlfriend thing.

Unless you’ve gone dark on all news and social media, you’ve seen that the CEO (Andy Byron) of an artificial intelligence company called Astronomer and his head of human resources (Kristin Cabot) were awkwardly nabbed on camera at a Coldplay concert in a way that showed they weren’t two platonic work colleagues out on the town. Now, after getting Board of Directors pressure, Byron has resigned over being caught with his girlfriend/mistress, which is really puzzling to me.

So, he was caught red-handed in an adulterous affair. So what?

This is 2025, folks. Our culture is clear in its standard that what two consenting adults do outside of work is A-OK, and that no corporate lifestyle dictates or anything else should trump sexual self-expression. It’s who they are and who are we, or the Astronomer’s Board, to say that their relationship is wrong?

Don’t they remember the whole Bill Clinton Monica Lewinsky thing back in the mid-1990s? Even though a 1998 Gallup poll showed that over 70% of Americans disapproved of Clinton’s affair with Lewinsky, his job approval ratings stayed strong and even increased, beginning at around 60%, and rising to nearly 70% during the height of the scandal. When pushed as to why they still supported Clinton as president, Americans said they separated Clinton’s personal morality from his job performance — they believed he had done a good job with the economy and governance, and that his private life was not their concern.

The feedback on LinkedIn regarding the Astronomer episode is similar, with the common responses resembling this one: “I would keep the current dude, he sailed the ship well made $$$, people’s livelihoods at stake. Slipped up, who hasn’t? Presidents do it all the time, and they are the best we can offer, oops I did it again! Bill and Monica surely had more fun.”

So, why hasn’t Astronomer’s Board taken the same stance?

The company’s PR statement said “leaders are expected to set the standard in both conduct and accountability,” which some have taken as saying that a romantic relationship between a CEO and the head of HR violated company standards or policies, especially given the power dynamic involved. The National Law Review said it’s common for policies to be particularly strict concerning romantic relationships between supervisors and subordinates due to the potential for conflicts of interest and complications in the workplace.

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