Sex and Drugs (I Hope)
Maybe Ted Haggard, as the Times puts it, “one of the nation’s most influential Christian leaders,” didn’t take the methamphetamine he bought from Michael Forest Jones, and maybe the former president of the National Association of Evangelicals didn’t have sex with the self-described former gay prostitute, but I sure hope so.
It’s just too good not to be true.
Here’s a guy who believes that homosexual sex is a sin and whose organization has come out (no pun intended) in favor of a Constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage all the while he’s in a hotel room, smoking glass, getting nasty with a dude!
The only thing that would make it better would be if Karl Rove were there in diapers shooting smack and being flogged by a teenage runaway.
I, of course, don’t mind a bit what Mr. Haggard does to get his jollies—although for his wife’s sake, I sure hope if the reports of sex are true he used a condom, and come to think of it: meth? Wouldn’t cocaine be sort of more appropriate for a gentleman of his wealth and standing?—but it’s the hypocrisy that’s just so over the top.
Or maybe it’s self-hatred. Which I guess would explain the meth.
Of course, if the reports are false (although Haggard did admit to buying the drugs, just not using them—didn’t inhale, right?) then it’s really unfortunate. And not just because Haggard’s not hoist by his own petard, but because here we’d have another case of someone being publicly vilified for their (even alleged) homosexuality.
It’s creepy that people would be more exercised by Haggard being a pole-smoker than they would be by his opposition to gay marriage.
That’s like being more upset that Kerry made a bad joke than that Bush is responsible for the deaths of over 3000 American soldiers and perhaps as many as 650,000 Iraqi civilians as a result of pursuing his illegal and unjust war.
Oh.
It’s just too good not to be true.
Here’s a guy who believes that homosexual sex is a sin and whose organization has come out (no pun intended) in favor of a Constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage all the while he’s in a hotel room, smoking glass, getting nasty with a dude!
The only thing that would make it better would be if Karl Rove were there in diapers shooting smack and being flogged by a teenage runaway.
I, of course, don’t mind a bit what Mr. Haggard does to get his jollies—although for his wife’s sake, I sure hope if the reports of sex are true he used a condom, and come to think of it: meth? Wouldn’t cocaine be sort of more appropriate for a gentleman of his wealth and standing?—but it’s the hypocrisy that’s just so over the top.
Or maybe it’s self-hatred. Which I guess would explain the meth.
Of course, if the reports are false (although Haggard did admit to buying the drugs, just not using them—didn’t inhale, right?) then it’s really unfortunate. And not just because Haggard’s not hoist by his own petard, but because here we’d have another case of someone being publicly vilified for their (even alleged) homosexuality.
It’s creepy that people would be more exercised by Haggard being a pole-smoker than they would be by his opposition to gay marriage.
That’s like being more upset that Kerry made a bad joke than that Bush is responsible for the deaths of over 3000 American soldiers and perhaps as many as 650,000 Iraqi civilians as a result of pursuing his illegal and unjust war.
Oh.
posted by Professor Dave at 1:51 PM
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I’m sure that somewhere in some gospel there is a proper explanation for such hypocritical behavior, but I’ve found nothing, not one stretch of metaphor that would cover drugs on diapers. I suppose only a benevolent God can understand and later forgive.
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