The New York times is reporting that Reverend Ted Haggard has said that he bought drugs from gay former prostitute Michael Jones, “but denied that he ever had sex with the man.” The times is also reporting that he is the former president of the National Association of Evangelicals, but when I Googled that site, I was surprised to find that I was able to pull up a cached NAE site that still listed him as the president. The former-ness indicated in the article must be recent.
According to the article, Mr. Haggard denies that he had sex with Mr. Jones. I could care less if he did. The gay former prostitute could just be a connection for drugs. There are quite a few other connections Mr. Haggard could have mined in order to obtain these drugs that he allegedly never even used, and could have avoided the whole impression that he had other things going on with Mr. Jones. One story I read on the subject said that Mr. Haggard paid for a “massage” from Mr. Jones. I hope he the massage at least had a happier ending than Mr. Haggard's presidency of the NAE did…
The former president of the NAE has been involved in conference calls with high level offices in the Bush administration, using the pulpit from which he preaches to foist his hypocritical morality on others. This is in similar fashion to the way the former U. S. Representative Mark Foley used his office to “help” children while hypocritically flirting with underage male pages (someone tell me why the House and Senate still have pages when all communications are done electronically now).
I may be stereotyping here, but it seems like we can add “hypocrisy” to the “Culture of…” moniker that some have given the Republican party. It's the party of “Do as I say, not as I do!”
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