Ted Haggard, the former leader of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs

I just want to post a couple of thoughts here. I'll try to not make this long and drawn out!

First I want to address Ted Haggard, the former leader of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs. When the news broke about what he had done I will admit that I grinned and felt a little leap of joy in my heart. Why? Because I detest hypocrisy, and the fascist right movement is FILLED with it! When Haggard was leaked by escort Mike Jones I was elated because here was another hypocrite exposed. Now I will also admit that I really have nothing against this man on a personal level, however I do on a socio-religious one. His diatribes against gays have been unbelievably harmful to many people, but in a classic case of "what goes around comes around," he ended up doing more harm to himself. He allowed himself to buy the religious whacko rhetoric that he was dishing out and ended up putting himself through (although I would imagine it was worse for him) the same closeted torture that so many of his "followers" have been forced to endure. What bothered me though was his apology letter that he wrote to his former congregation. In it he described how he was a liar and deceitful, that there was a part of his life that was so repulsive and dark that he had been warring against it all of his adult life, and that he was doing everything he can to defeat these demons. He also said that he has been battling with sexual issues all his life. Now what bothered me is that instead of using his brain and the intelligence that God gave him, he decided to retreat into a lie and refer to these problems as "demons." Yes, this is the fundamentalist at work here. The devil made me do it.

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