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To: allmendream

I hope and pray that he gets his life in order.

Now, my question for all, how many of you had heard of Ted Haggard before his scandal? I think his case was pushed by the MSM to show how some preachers fall short of the standards they want others to live by, thus making their political statement about ministers and religion in general.

It’s sort of how the MSM pushed George Allen saying “macaca” as such a vile insult that he shouldn’t be re-elected to the Senate. The MSM had to repeatedly define the word “macaca” for us so that we would know that it was allegedly a racial/ethnic slur, and tie in with the MSM world view that there is zero tolerance for such slurs, at least among Republicans. Democrats are held to a different standard.


5 posted on 11/13/2008 6:58:09 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Well I hold any religious leader to the same standard.

He made his living off of leading people in prayer. Maybe he was devout and maybe he was a charlatan. But now that he is out of money for male prostitutes and meth, he comes hat in hand to lead another congregation? Not on anyone with any brains dime.

7 posted on 11/13/2008 7:00:37 AM PST by allmendream (Wealth is EARNED not distributed.... so how could it be Redistributed?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
how many of you had heard of Ted Haggard before his scandal?

I did. But, to me, he was just another supposed evangelical leader who did not speak for me.

14 posted on 11/13/2008 8:25:59 AM PST by Lee N. Field (a dispensational exegesis not supported by an a-, post- or historic pre-mil scholar will be ignored.)
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