This is one of those “oh shit” days for me & my religio-political ilk. Love to believe it’s mostly not true, but - dammit.
That said, I commend the Pit thread on this for starting out on a higher tone than this.
The messengers may fail & falter but the Word stands Eternal.
Ha!
That it all.
Paging Mr. Hastert…
That’s an interesting statement, FT. It goes somewhat along with Stasheff’s line about having many doubts about the church but only questions about the faith.
Mind you, I fall on the ‘it’s put together by men so I doubt in the first place’ stage. But I still think your approach is interesting.
Does anyone here have a gaydar handy, so they can scan the man’s picture? My own gaydar is factory-defective. And I have to confess that I had never heard of this guy till yesterday, which is sort of ironic – outing trumps the Word, it seems.
Aw. This is a lot more fun when you’ve seen Jesus Camp already and know what a big deal t his guy is.
This is what Fox has to say
:smack:
Haggard has admitted to calling male prostitute Mike Jones for drugs and a massage. However, he threw away the drugs, and never had sex with him.
Riiight.
By the time you’ve admitted buying meth and soliciting a male prostitute for a “massage,” you might as well come clean, because you’ve basically bitten the bullet. Why hold out on the last few tidbits? These things always follow the same predictable course.
I suppose we could go back to what the definition of what is is.
Besides, does a happy ending = sex? For me at the Asian spa, no. For me talking with the college-aged daughter, YES!
A massage? A deep, penetrating, massage? It was a prostate exam really, guys his age should be checked regularly, like once a month right?
As for the meth, well I’m sure he just thought those were bath salts.
That works. Right?
You mean…
Haw haw haw!
…right? 
Oh, I wouldn’t say anything, that would be rude.
Now there’s admission of a massage? Hahahahahaaaaaaa! Aaaaaah!!! Oh, my spleen!!! Haaaaaaaaaa!! Hahahahaaaaaaaaa!!! Just stop already!!! Heheh.
Any Little Britain fans here? Sir Norman Fry, anyone?
“I have a statement I would like to read. Last week I purchased a new camera, and whilst in my office in the House of Commons, I accidentally took a picture of myself naked. That picture somehow - and I would love to know how - found its way onto Gaydar, which I later discovered to be a dating website for sodomites. Basically, you pay a flat fee, post your stats online… <uncomfortable pause>… I was then invited to join a group of gentlemen at a party in Brighton where I was planning to give a talk about Education Reform. However, shortly after my arrival, my clothes accidentally fell off. At that moment, I slipped on a glacé cherry, and landed inside one of the men. As far as I’m concerned, that is the end of the matter.”
I know. I’ve felt like this all day:
Shouldn’t Haggard update his news section? How about a new headline:
Ted’s Faith as clear as crystal meth!
This was great!
I feel bad for the guy’s family (and the family of any similar closet case, hypocritical or not), but I’m sure that between this, Bob Ney’s resignation today, and the nuclear how-to’s on our government’s website, the Kerry high the GOP was enjoying has largely evaporated.
No, not everyone. But a man in a position where damage to him is defacto damage to his organization. If the CEO of Ford gets caught in something like this, your opinion on Ford Trucks won’t be swayed too much. But a Church? IMHO, yes.
As for the more complete information, now THAT is a bit more incriminating. The 'ol Clinton trick of not inhaling? Sheesh!
So please let me offer up a BWAAAhhhhhaaaa! to the masses.
-Tcat
Never even heard of this guy before today, and I used to live in Colorado Springs. I must be a really bad Christian!