Repulsive and Dark

Having been dismissed as senior pastor of New Life Church, Ted Haggard has finally admitted that he lied about his relationship with Mike Jones and in a letter to his former congregation, confessed to “sexual immorality,” by which we can be fairly certain that he was referring to his homosexual desires. He went on to speak of his urges as “repulsive and dark,” calling them “the dirt that [he] thought was gone” but that “would resurface.”

Haggard clearly considers himself as having been a slave to his “unnatural desires.” In reality, he is a slave to a backward and inhumane religion that deems love between two people of the same sex to be “sexual immorality.” Haggard is as much a slave as he ever was.

Though he has confessed to being “a deceiver and a liar” for not being forthcoming about his relationship with Jones, his biggest deception is yet to come; namely, he will now join the ranks of those pathetic, self-loathing ex-gays who sing the praises of reparative therapy and claim to be cured.

Next stop: Exodus International. Don’t worry, Ted. I’ve heard that lots of guys hook up there.