but when the big guns fall i can't help but be a bit taken aback:
Ted Haggard: National Evangelical Leader, Gay Marriage Opponent, Admits to Meth and Massage but Not Gay Sex
I wonder if this will get swept under the carpet or if this could possibly shake the foundations of complacent and self serving 'evangelicals' in their corporate mega churches across america. probably will just go away.
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Since i am hoping for some real change in Washington on Tuesday I am repressing my sicko urge to feel good about this tragedy.
Actually, ya know....I saw the news about this accusation on the CNN last night and read about it on the web but I really figured it was probably just some crack pot trying to discredit Haggard b/c of his vocal support for the ban on gay marriage in Colorado. I have no particular affinity for Haggard or the kingpins of the religious right who I feel have sold out to the power while saying they are doing God's work jeeeeze Louise, but I really thot this was a crack pot accusation.
The fact that today Haggard admitted that at least, some of these accusations are true certainly adds the weight of the evidence against right wing evangelicals, who vote Republican only, and who say abortion and gay marriage are the sole litmus tests. Time to step back and re-evaluate what they have been suckered into over the past 10 years. You just cannot run with the power players without getting sucked in to their rubbish yourself. Power is corrupting. No one is immune. NO ONE! I really feel thousands of well meaning Believers have all be being used by the politicians...as indicated in the new book by the former deputy director of the White House office of faith-based initiatives -- Tempting Faith: an Inside Story of Political Seduction by David Kuo.
Haggard by the way was the subject of an article/expose sort of/ about his church, including the total spectacle of t his son's wedding. Harper's magazine May 2005.
well, at least it didn't just get swept under the rug....
hopefully some good will come of it...at the polls (?) and in the lives of the thousands impacted by it more directly.
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