Posted on 11/05/2006 10:35:54 AM PST by VictoryGal
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.
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"Frankly, I'd never heard of the idiot until the left started pointing fingers and yelling about it."
Who???
FORMER President of the US Evangelical Association.
"You would expect perfect timing from an imperfect person?
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Nope. Of course not. I certainly would not expect it from someone who has been lying to his family and his congregation all this time.
Haggard is a creep. No, I wouldn't expect him to do anything else.
PH,
Did you know about this Richard Dawkins interview?
"He took me behind the altar and rammed the fear of God into me."
I wonder how this went over with the kids in the congregation.
"I wonder how this went over with the kids in the congregation.
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A very good question. There are lots of parents who are having to explain things they do not want to have to explain to their kids. It's especially difficult for them if the kids are adolescents.
Teenagers in church tend to be very intense about their feelings, and often revere their pastors. It will be a difficult, difficult day for their parents.
Shame on Haggard!
I guess there are people stupid enough to vote based on the actions of one person, but I really don't see very many people swaying because of this situation.
I've read a lot of bashing of democrats because the ex-prostitute admitted that he timed his disclosure perfectly, but wouldn't the republicans do the same?
Let's not confuse the importance of this -- some ignorant and some die-hard party members might see this as a party issue, but it's not.
Haggard completed defiled the mandates given to elders in the scripture, and knowing he was, refused to step down. He has dishonored the Lord Jesus Christ, his wife and his children. The scripture is clear about confessing your sins to one another that you may be healed. Yes, we do sin, but Jesus also warned that those who claim to be teachers bring a harsher judgment upon themselves. Let's not get all "I'm okay, you're okay" about this. The lesson to be learned here is that your sin will find you out. God chastises those who claim to be His. It's all there in the scripture.
And, let's not get all fired up about those lousy democrats -- again, republicans would do the same. Haggard should have been living his life in such a manner that they couldn't have dragged him through the mud. He brought this on himself. He deserves every bit of the mocking from the democrats.
Post #65, BTTT.
Thanks E.P. good work.
jm
And what does that have to do with anything? Guilt by association? How the hell is the President supposed to have known what this guy was up to in his private life? Should he be a mind reader?
And polidents aren't always fixed... ;-P
I am sad today for Ted Haggard, that he has been in a living hell for a long time. But happy that his day of reckoning is here, a la, no more compulsively continuing in Christian leadership when he should have resigned a long time ago. I hope and pray he finds deliverance and a new honest life.
I pray for his wife and kids too.
Regretful that it had to become a huge scandal.
If you excuse me for interrupting, I hear you. I have a bright daughter who is a spokesperson for a deciever and a con man who leads a "church" in Oregon. It is a very disheartening situation.
In the same breath, I know many good pastors and I have faith in the goodness of people.
What scares me is that my own basic trusting nature has rubbed off on my daughter and that she was sucked into a whirlpool of deception along with her husband.
The ministry requires respondible and credible leadership. At all times.
Period.
To add to what you said-
I hope this is a reality check for the congregation of this church who obviously were more caught up in the MAN instead of the message.
I am greatly saddened by this story. I have no idea who this person is, but it is indeed a sad day when someone who "represents" a large Christian group is found to be a fraud and hypocrite.
"Why waste your time? Luke 18:10-11"
Good answer.
NOT if you are sober and of sound mind.
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