Beware the Extremists, There’s Always a Reason For Why They Are the Way They Are

“I am a deceiver and a liar. There is a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I’ve been warring against it all of my adult life,” wrote Ted Haggard, 50, who was fired Saturday as head of the 14,000-member church.

*sigh* How can you get it so incredibly backwards? The problem, dear Ted Haggard, is not that you think you have a sexual problem. The problem is that you and your followers don’t realize that you don’t have a problem. But instead of accepting the inevitable conclusion of this episode, that maybe it’s just good old human nature and not a choice as you so often claim, you cling to millenia-old scriptures that were written in a time when people were ignorant, thought that the world is a disc, women had no rights and homophobia still reigned supreme.

The other problem, of course, is that you’re a hypocritical asshole who wasn’t man enough to stand up to his nature and channelled his “demons” into public campaigns of intollerance instead. But that is almost incidental – not being able to cope with the first issue and looking for an outlet paved the road to where we are now.

In other news: people protesting the message of tollerance. Gotta love the irony of that. I’m assuming that the play in question is The Laramie Project. Victoria was assistant director on that play a few years ago, now I’m glad I know about it.