Don't you think Ted Haggard was stupid

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First of all, I am not on his side at all, as a Christian I oppose homosexuality and I think it is good that he was exposed. But, appart from actual issues at hand, there is a part for me where I want both sides to play hardest. I personally would of liked it much better if he kept insisting that he doesn't know the guy UNTILL he would be forced to admit it by compelling evidence, such as voicemail or whatever. What is even more ridiculous is that he admitted the charges on Thursday and then he was still denying it Friday morning. That is something I have no idea how to make logical sense of at all. Okay, I can try to defend admission of charges by saying that if there is a good chance that they will come out anyways, it would be "slightly" better if at least a person admitted it himself. But if this is trully what he was thinking, then WHY was he AGAIN denying it Friday morning? So based on his denials on Friday morning, he was obviuosly still hopping to hide things. If such be the case then WHY did he admit it on Thursday?

I also have no idea why did he take a leave from his office. I would cite his own words that he wanted "overseer process to proceed with integrity". In other words, he is worried that if he were in the office, he would of been able to interfere with it, and he wants to prevent himself from interfearing. This sounds like multiple personality to me. Okay, lets try to find some other reason why he did it. May be he was thinking that even if someone is NOT guilty of a particular accusation, it is still "good manner" to resign anyway just for the sake of unity in congregation or whatever, so he wanted to display good manner and thus hope that it would help him to win. NOPE, that doesn't work either. Everyone in as high position as he is get THOUSANDS political motivated accusations, especially before voting. So do they all resign every single time they are accused of something by one person? No. So, all he should have done was to say "I don't knwo that guy, and I won't spent my time worrying about the bs" and then stay in his office and continue the work. And, while in the office, he would easilly prevent the truth from being known since he said himself that he would be "compromising integrity of overseer process".

And even if he did admit to seeing the escort, there could have been a number of excuses he could have made:

1)Since he maintains that he didn't have sex and only had massage, why on earth did he admit that massage was sexually motivated? He could have simply said he was getting massage for health reasons. And why male escort? Well he would do a better job since, being gay, he was attracted to Huggard, so this would "inspire" him.

2)Being a STRAIGHT man he was keeping the escort from having sex with gays, which was part of his mission. After all, escort himself doesn't need sex, he needs money. His problem is that no one would willingly give him money without sex. So, if someone comes alone and says "look I am going to pay you for NOT having sex with anyone else", that would be a great way of keeping the escort from immortality. Furthermore it would serve Christian mission "take what you have and give it to the poor". Escort is probably poor and needs money, right? And then of course while he is there he doesn't have much to do, so why not get a massage, just for health reasons.

He knew he would get caught eventually and basically admitted it (although not to the entirety of the charges made) once he realized that would be less time-consuming and less damaging to his reputation, which would already be mostly damaged.

As for the conjecture that he paid the man for sex to prevent him from having sex with anyone else and paid him for the meth to prevent someone else from using the meth, surely Haggard would have said already that that was his motive.

I am certain he had sex with this escort and that there was indeed daming evidence against him that he did not want made public in the face of his denials. I'm sorry, but you don't see the same escort for a year+ just for a massage or for the purchase of drugs you "throw away." What I found galling was that he half admitted it but then made up (IMO) the story of "just a massage" and throwing away the drugs.

This was a gay man who didn't want to lose his immense power or blow his cover of a perfect family man.

I could care less what hole he chooses to insert Tab A into. Not my business.
Matter of fact, really, none of it's my business. I'm not a part of his congregation and I was in no way affected by his actions.
That said, I think he's a utter ret*d. Yet another religious leader being exposed for what he really is, a lying hypocritical douchebag and a spiritual successor to Falwell, Baker, Swaggart, et al.
I don't buy the 'i bought it just to throw it away' excuse, sorry. Reminds me of Clintons' "I smoked it but I didn't inhale" in which case he was either a poseur trying to look cool who lacked the courage of his convictions, or he did inhale and is a liar.
I refuse to criticise someone for using drugs, since I choose to do so as well. I WILL criticise and mock unmercifully those who use drugs while a)denying it vigorously, and b)telling others that they will presumably go to hell for doing so.
I think he could have done a lot to salvage some shreds of credibility had he just admitted to it from the start and not made up denial after denial. It only served to make him look like a moron. Well, even more of a moron.
This, in my mind, is an object lesson in why repression is bad, and even more so why religious repression is bad.

While I personally delight in this revelation and his admittance of it he played it all the wrong way. At first I thought it was a set up and I think he should have played up that angle to try to play it down and frankly till he opened his mouth don't think it would have been hard among his constituents maybe in the public at at large but not with them but as it stands his career is over. His saying he didn't use the drugs is as bad as Clinton's I didn't inhale I don't buy it at all

i'm sorry but this is what christians get for acting better than everyone else. the bigger they are the harder they fall

S'not limited just to Christians, dude.
Tho, granted, I can't recall the last time I heard of a mullah doin' meth with a male hooker.
Or a lama.
Or a brahmin.
Not saying it couldn't happen tho.

oh i know its not limited to just christans, it goes for everyone.

When I found out about Pastor Ted's little indescretion, I laughed. Out loud. And I am enjoying his crash-and-burn. He has been exposed as a hypocrite whose "sin" makes those of Jimmy Swaggart (female prostitutes) and Jimmy Bakker (female secretary) look positively wholesome by comparison.

hahaha i found it to be pretty funny. i'm sure theres alot more just like him in the church, they just havent been discoverd yet