Gay Prostitutes & Evangelical "Leaders"

This is a wholly gratuitous quotation:

Now that Haggard has been outed by a gay prostitute for having sex with him and buying meth, and has resigned as president of the National Association of Evangelicals, I wonder what it will take for the good people in the pews to call ["]leaders["] like Haggard, Jerry Falwell, and James Dobson to account for their mean-spirited hypocrisy.

[Paul Loeb, "Is there meth in Ted Haggard's heaven?", Huffington Post, 4 November 2006.]

I quote it merely because the words and names

all appear in the same sentence, and I think Google might like that while Falwell and Dobson won't.

Posted on November 4, 2006 at 19.16 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Current Events, Laughing Matters

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  1. Written by S.W. Anderson
    on Sunday, 5 November 2006 at 17.38
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    The calling to account Loeb would like to see ain't about to happen. The core faithful among evangelicals need strong-hand leadership (authoritariansim) and a sharply defined template for living (Bible literalism). They dislike shades of gray, nuanced considerations and reject notions such as "circumstances alter cases."

    So, they will write off Haggard's slide into sin as they wrote off those of Bakker, Swaggart and others. Just a case of an individual going astray, don't ya know?

    Acknowledging a pattern of hypocrisy and corruption comes uncomfortably and unacceptably close to making a series of admissions to themselves they are not prepared to make. Thus, you can count on faith-based insularity keeping reality at bay this time as it has in the past, and as it will in the future.

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