THIS IS WHY WE EXCOMMUNICATE!
Ted Haggard, the former pastor of New Life Church in Colorado, and former head of the NEA, has emerged from three weeks of "intensive" counseling convinced that he is "completely heterosexual." That's right, folks. After three years of monthly visitations to Denver to engage in anal sex with a male prostitute -- while taking crystal meth -- Ted Haggard is NOT gay!One of the four morons, I mean ministers, that oversaw his restoration stated, "He is completely heterosexual. That is something he (Haggard) discovered. It was acting-out situations where things took place. It wasn't a constant thing."
Ahhh, I see. He was just acting these things out, and it wasn't constant. True, but neither is anything else. It was consistent though, viz. monthly for 3 years. Acting things out? What in the world does that mean?
So, the Haggards are all done with counseling and will soon relocate to either Missouri or Iowa. Ted and his accomplice wife, Gayle (equally to blame), will pursue their master's degrees in psychology, and start a brand "new life" -- the irony is dripping.
There are no words to describe the implications of this development. I'm only glad I said what I did when this story first broke. This man and his lying wife should be excommunicated. These overseeing ministers should be defrocked. And, the modern church should be seething in outrage at this vulgar display of audacity in the sight of God.
Recently, I was speaking with a dear friend about the Haggard situation and he said, "I feel so bad for him and his family, and the church." I said, "Does anybody feel bad for another stain smeared upon the glory of God? Does anyone feel revulsion at the fact that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ has once again been dragged through the mud by a false minister?"
Who weeps for this gross violation of the holiness of God? Who will rebuke Haggard or his ministerial hirlings. If anyone will be rebuked, it will be people like me. People who would dare to question the modern Laodicean church and her filthy garments.
