Ted Haggard Turning to God to Get Money for Methamphetamine and Hot Gay Sex

Don’t know what a “slow breakfast” is, but if it’s anything like a hot lunch, I don’t WANNA know.

You mock him, yet no one ever donated money to me so I could indulge in drugs and sex. He has obviously figured out something about people that I haven’t.

@Dodgerblue:

You probably can’t stretch “Jesus” into enough syllables. :)

@al2o3cr: Somewhat off topic: my Mom, may she rest in peace, was a big baseball fan, and when Jesus Alou (Hay-sus) played outfield for the S.F. Giants, she would always say “Hey, will Jeeesus get a hit?” when he came up to bat, and then laugh herself silly.

“Men’s conference”? Is that what they call blowjobs now?

@lentinus: I dunno. Possibly. The “Loving San Diego” part may be about doing it with a guy named Diego, too. I mean, guy speaks in scripture, any interpretation is possible.

We have to forgive these people. If we don’t we become like them.

@Benedick in mourning:
I’ll admit that I’m probably the worst at the whole forgiveness thing, but forgiveness can only be offered if he accepts who he is and who others are.

BTW, welcome back.

@Benedick in mourning: It’d be like forgiving a rabid wolf. It will eat your face in insensate fury no matter what the fuck you do. Haggard should do the right thing and blow his own brains out on pay-per-view, proceeds to go to his family and victims.

@FlyingChainSaw: @Benedick in mourning:

He has always seemed to me more to be pitied than despised. You have to understand that this man was not just a cultist, he was the High Priest of a cult, on of its higest. The conflict in him and the pressure on him must have been incredible, and yet, outside of a sort of pro forma condemnation of Homosexuality, you never really heard the vicious hatred of a Pat Robertson coming from him. I have to say that is to his credit, for most people in his situation become vicious homophobes, externalizing the hatred they feel for themselves.

He’ll never be quite right, as the cult whose approval he still so desires will never accept him or allow him self-acceptance, but as fucked-up as this may sound, he is ok in my book. I am free to believe what I believe, he is free to believe what he believes. In the end, what he ended up doing was provide the Gay community with a kind of negative example, a living, breathing reminder of what can happen if you stifle your most intrinsic and natural impulses. He paid dearly for it.

@FlyingChainSaw:

You never go quite far enough with these things, you shrinking violet.

You should have said “Haggard should do the right thing and blow his own brains out on pay-per-view while naked and smeared with his own feces, drinking goat urine all the while, until per-minute call-in pledges run out and it is time for the bullet. Proceeds to go to his family and victims”.

Man up, FCS! MAN UP!