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Well, properly speaking, Tuesday's moment, but I only saw the article today.
Grim Amusements: Ted Haggard apparently still kinda gay.
The Denver Channel: Ted Haggard: Church Says Restoration 'Incomplete'
Given that "spiritual restoration is a necessarily confidential process", one would have thought that the church would have remained absolutely silent about Haggard's failure to complete the process. After all, one suspects that he would not have been trumpeting that from the ramparts, now would he?
I have to admit, a tiny part of me feels just the littlest bit sorry for the guy. It's bad enough to have to wrestle with who you are -- or wrestle the demons of temptation, if you prefer -- let alone having to do it in public. Never mind apparently losing the battle in public, which is probably how he feels right now. And it's got to be horrible knowing that you've put your family through all of this, that they get to suffer along in public with you through no fault or action of their own.
The rest of me remains, yes, grimly amused at the concept that being gay renders one unfit in their eyes to proclaim the love of God for mankind, and vice versa.
(Purely a side note: "restoration is incomplete." Sounds almost like a failed software installation, doesn't it? "Oops. Sorry, we got some of the Heterosexual 2.0 upgrade installed over the Heterosexual 1.0 version and the Really Really Gay 1.0 original program, but then it hung up about halfway through. Looks like there's some seriously incompatible programming here. We could try doing the HS 2.0 upgrade again, but honestly, you're probably better off sticking with RRG 1.0. It'll just work better with this setup.")
Grim Amusements: Ted Haggard apparently still kinda gay.
The Denver Channel: Ted Haggard: Church Says Restoration 'Incomplete'
Given that "spiritual restoration is a necessarily confidential process", one would have thought that the church would have remained absolutely silent about Haggard's failure to complete the process. After all, one suspects that he would not have been trumpeting that from the ramparts, now would he?
I have to admit, a tiny part of me feels just the littlest bit sorry for the guy. It's bad enough to have to wrestle with who you are -- or wrestle the demons of temptation, if you prefer -- let alone having to do it in public. Never mind apparently losing the battle in public, which is probably how he feels right now. And it's got to be horrible knowing that you've put your family through all of this, that they get to suffer along in public with you through no fault or action of their own.
The rest of me remains, yes, grimly amused at the concept that being gay renders one unfit in their eyes to proclaim the love of God for mankind, and vice versa.
(Purely a side note: "restoration is incomplete." Sounds almost like a failed software installation, doesn't it? "Oops. Sorry, we got some of the Heterosexual 2.0 upgrade installed over the Heterosexual 1.0 version and the Really Really Gay 1.0 original program, but then it hung up about halfway through. Looks like there's some seriously incompatible programming here. We could try doing the HS 2.0 upgrade again, but honestly, you're probably better off sticking with RRG 1.0. It'll just work better with this setup.")
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