When you have the truth on your side, it's not a tough thing to do - especially someone in his position.
This must've been a gold mine to his political foes - but no matter what - who could tempt a man to have a homosexual relationship unless he wanted to.
Another woman would've been something more understandable - especially to his followers.
I feel sorry for his family and his followers. He should be ashamed
I would weigh what the implications were for the organization. Newt Gingrich wasn't guilty of anything serious and he stepped down for the good of the party. If Haggard did it and is lying, his behavior makes sense. If he didn't do it and he thinks he can help the NAE and the marriage amendment by stepping down, his behavior makes sense. What doesn't make sense is people acting like this is some boatload of evidence that proves something.
A counter question: If you were a reporter and a guy said, "I can prove what I'm saying, but I refuse to" would you believe anything else he told you? I'm a journalist and I'd tell him to pound sand.
There are only two things we can know for sure from this evidence: First, a guy called a voice mail box and talked about something. Second, this "revelation" is politically timed. That's all we know.
At one point all we KNEW for sure about Haditha was that a certain number of people had died on the same date that some Marines were in the town. From that evidence, some people on this board assumed that Marines had killed civilians and the drive by media assumed it was in cold blood. The FR repsonse to the Haggard case reminds me of that.
I feel sorry for his family and his followers. He should be ashamed
I feel sorry for you that you are so quick to condemn a man on the word of a male prostitute and drug dealer. Even if he is proved to be guilty, your critical thinking needs some serious work.