‘Not My Choice.’ Steven Crowder Announces Divorce
“Pray that he would repent and sincerely believe in Christ. Pray for his wife, that she would also repent and reconcile with him. And pray for their children. Divorce is destructive.”
Conservative political commentator and professing Christian Steven Crowder has announced that his marriage has ended, and he and his wife of over a decade are getting a divorce. Crowder made the announcement during yesterday’s episode of Louder with Crowder.
Clarifying that the end of his marriage was not the result of infidelity or allegations of abuse, he revealed that it had been ongoing for two years, describing it as his “deepest personal failure.” He and his wife, Hilary, have two children, born in 2021.
“I have been living with a proverbial boot on my neck for going on years now….Since 2021, I’ve been living through what has increasingly been a horrendous divorce….And no, this was not my choice. My then-wife decided that she didn’t want to be married anymore and in the state of Texas, that is completely permitted. It’s been the most heartbreaking experience of my life.
He addded that his opinions on parenthood and family have not changed, that parents need a mom and a dad and that divorce is horrible.
In all this, one thing I wanna be really clear about is certain. True north here is that my children are blameless, completely without fault, and so we decided to resolve these issues privately as it’s in their best interest both emotionally and physically to do so.
Lastly:
I loved a woman so much that I married her. A woman who, despite all of this, I still love as the mother of my children and she wanted something else for her life….That’s not my choice, she simply wanted out and the law says that that’s how it works.”
Though Crowder has frequently professed to be a Christian and even touted that when he and his wife got married they were both virgins who had kept the marriage bed pure, describing it as a recipe for success to ensure the long-term survival of his relationship, the last decade has left many questioning his salvation. Though we can’t locate the video, Todd Friel of Wretched Radio had an interaction with Crowder over a decade ago about his profession of faith, asking him questions about the gospel that Crowder simply could not answer, and then later became upset at the suggestion that he may only be a cultural Christian and false convert.
As Samuel Sey says: “Pray that he would repent and sincerely believe in Christ. Pray for his wife, that she would also repent and reconcile with him. And pray for their children. Divorce is destructive.”