What a little cunt
(My comments appear at bottom)
By Steven Saint and Keith Coffman
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Reuters) - Disgraced U.S. evangelist Ted Haggard, a vocal opponent of gay marriage, said on Sunday that he was guilty of "sexual immorality" and that he had long battled with a "repulsive" side of his life.
"I am guilty of sexual immorality, I am a deceiver and a liar. There is a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark and I've been warring against it my entire adult life", Haggard said in a letter that was read to his New Life Church in Colorado Springs by a church overseer during a Sunday morning service.
Haggard resigned as president of the influential National Association of Evangelicals on Thursday after being accused by a male escort of having had a sexual relationship with him.
He also agreed to step down as senior pastor of the New Life Church, a 14,000 member "mega-church" which he founded in 1985 and where he is affectionately known as "Pastor Ted.". Haggard, 50, had initially denied the allegations but began backpedaling on Friday when he admitted to seeking the man at a Denver Hotel for a "massage" and contacting him to buy the drug meth. But he said he had thrown the meth away.
Haggard, with his chiseled features, wide smile and five children, had been a poster boy for the evangelical movement and social conservative causes that have been embraced by the Republican Party.
Conservative Christians are a support base for the Republican Party and President Bush. Evangelical leaders have been urging the faithful to vote in congressional elections on Tuesday with polls showing Republicans could lose control of at least one house of Congress.
They also have encouraged conservative voters in eight states including Colorado to support proposed amendments to ban same-sex marriages.
In the letter Haggard said he was embarrassed and ashamed and asked the congregation to forgive his accuser, who has been widely quoted as saying he came forward because he was angered by what he perceived as the pastor's hypocrisy on the issue of same-sex marriage...
Truly sad; If you've been warring against your sexuality for your entire adult life, well, Pastor Ted, there's probably a good reason for that. Call me crazy - but it sounds a little bit like you're, well... gay. And don't really want to come to terms with it. And if you weren't raised in some toothless-hillbilly-ignorant-hate-mongering state, and if you didn't continue to live in the same life-withering environment, wallowing in secret self-loathing/denigration and surrounded by narrow-minded wretches all this time, you perhaps could come to some healthy resolution and find some peace. Instead, you're buying meth and rent boys in hotels (not that there's anything wrong with that per se) in some misguided, myopic attempt to supress what seems to be an inviolable part of your psycho-sexual makeup. I mean, you're absolutely right: Republicans (mostly) have every right to be concerned with THE EVIL GAYS' subversive agenda to undermine the family structure and forever upset the natural balance of the universe with nefarious civil partnerships, repulsive gay marriages, etc. For fuck's sake. What's wrong with your family structure, I wonder...
It would be easy to hate someone like you, Pastor Ted: a hypocritical, lying, drug-addled, whoring, latent cock-sucking faggot, fraudulently masquerading as some fine, upstanding pillar of the community, the mouth-piece of God of the Rockies. But the point is that we don't judge other people for who they are, or what they do (unless they eat children). And certainly if youre a Christian, you don't judge others. Instill in your life the practice of loving others - our children will grow up to love themselves and, then, poor guys like dear Pastor Ted won't need to resort to such dire behaviour in order to find the personal acceptance which has always eluded him.
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By Steven Saint and Keith Coffman
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Reuters) - Disgraced U.S. evangelist Ted Haggard, a vocal opponent of gay marriage, said on Sunday that he was guilty of "sexual immorality" and that he had long battled with a "repulsive" side of his life.
"I am guilty of sexual immorality, I am a deceiver and a liar. There is a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark and I've been warring against it my entire adult life", Haggard said in a letter that was read to his New Life Church in Colorado Springs by a church overseer during a Sunday morning service.
Haggard resigned as president of the influential National Association of Evangelicals on Thursday after being accused by a male escort of having had a sexual relationship with him.
He also agreed to step down as senior pastor of the New Life Church, a 14,000 member "mega-church" which he founded in 1985 and where he is affectionately known as "Pastor Ted.". Haggard, 50, had initially denied the allegations but began backpedaling on Friday when he admitted to seeking the man at a Denver Hotel for a "massage" and contacting him to buy the drug meth. But he said he had thrown the meth away.
Haggard, with his chiseled features, wide smile and five children, had been a poster boy for the evangelical movement and social conservative causes that have been embraced by the Republican Party.
Conservative Christians are a support base for the Republican Party and President Bush. Evangelical leaders have been urging the faithful to vote in congressional elections on Tuesday with polls showing Republicans could lose control of at least one house of Congress.
They also have encouraged conservative voters in eight states including Colorado to support proposed amendments to ban same-sex marriages.
In the letter Haggard said he was embarrassed and ashamed and asked the congregation to forgive his accuser, who has been widely quoted as saying he came forward because he was angered by what he perceived as the pastor's hypocrisy on the issue of same-sex marriage...
Truly sad; If you've been warring against your sexuality for your entire adult life, well, Pastor Ted, there's probably a good reason for that. Call me crazy - but it sounds a little bit like you're, well... gay. And don't really want to come to terms with it. And if you weren't raised in some toothless-hillbilly-ignorant-hate-mongering state, and if you didn't continue to live in the same life-withering environment, wallowing in secret self-loathing/denigration and surrounded by narrow-minded wretches all this time, you perhaps could come to some healthy resolution and find some peace. Instead, you're buying meth and rent boys in hotels (not that there's anything wrong with that per se) in some misguided, myopic attempt to supress what seems to be an inviolable part of your psycho-sexual makeup. I mean, you're absolutely right: Republicans (mostly) have every right to be concerned with THE EVIL GAYS' subversive agenda to undermine the family structure and forever upset the natural balance of the universe with nefarious civil partnerships, repulsive gay marriages, etc. For fuck's sake. What's wrong with your family structure, I wonder...
It would be easy to hate someone like you, Pastor Ted: a hypocritical, lying, drug-addled, whoring, latent cock-sucking faggot, fraudulently masquerading as some fine, upstanding pillar of the community, the mouth-piece of God of the Rockies. But the point is that we don't judge other people for who they are, or what they do (unless they eat children). And certainly if youre a Christian, you don't judge others. Instill in your life the practice of loving others - our children will grow up to love themselves and, then, poor guys like dear Pastor Ted won't need to resort to such dire behaviour in order to find the personal acceptance which has always eluded him.
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posted by LAB at 9:04 PM
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