Our sins made us enemies of God and unfit for heaven. By grace, through the blood of Christ, God forgave us and saved us from our sins. Because of this, we cannot continue to indulge in sin, but must turn from it to righteousness. For full-blooded youths like adolescent Clinton, these Baptist doctrines offered considerable room for maneuvering through the sexual revolution of the 1960s. To use the Baptist teaching of freedom of conscience to explain Mr. Clinton's rationalization for his conduct is both a misrepresentation and slander of this precious truth.
Freedom of conscience is taught in the Bible.
Each individual is fully accountable to God and solely responsible for his or her actions. Baptists have concluded from this that no restraint or constraint should be placed on an individual regarding the worship of God contrary to one's conscience. Woodward links Clinton's misconduct to Baptist teaching of eternal security and freedom of conscience with the implication that other views may have prevented him from wrongdoing. They didn't and don't espouse Baptist views on these things. Baptist belief isn't the problem here.