Personal Life
Ensign is a member of the Pentecostal International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, and was the only Pentecostal in the Senate. He resided at the influential C Street Center, a religious house in Washington, D.C. Ensign moved out of the C Street house in November 2009, after disclosure of an extramarital affair and reports that he used his influence to pressure several parties to keep quiet about it. When in Las Vegas he attends a northwest Foursquare church. According to The New York Times, during college at Colorado State, he became a born-again Christian and he and his wife, Darlene, were active in the Promise Keepers, an evangelical group.
He and his wife have three children.
He is a member of the religious and political organization The Fellowship, described by prominent evangelical Christians as one of the most politically well-connected fundamentalist organizations in the US.
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