What a Scumbag
by: Rev. DanFrom the Miami Herald:
Gay ex-escort Mike Jones has signed to write a sexually explicit memoir about his relationship with fallen evangelist Ted Haggard.
‘’It’s going to review my encounters with Ted and other people who are similar,'’ Jones told The Miami Herald today from New York.
‘’It’s not a book about bashing Ted at all. It’s humanizing him as a person with feelings and emotions and desires,'’ Jones said. “I’m going to be explicit as far as what happened in our encounters, but not to rip him apart or be mean to him. He’s a man who has faults like all of us.'’
This guy knew what he was doing from day one… I cannot figure out how prominent ministers can feel so invincible in these situations.
The whole thing is just so typically obvious…
It’s yet another example of the Christian Reality Distortion Field.
Jones is a self-serving creep who is continuing to exploit Haggard and the circumstances for personal/financial gain. It’s pretty obvious, which is why the gay community was like “uh, you’re a creepy asshole, even if you did out that Haggard scumbag.”
However, I don’t think Jones got up in front of several monstrous congregations every week and promoted the lies and hypocrisy known as Contemporary Christianity.
Haggard (and the rest of the double-life leading clergy at New Life Church) aren’t the problem so much as an symptom of the real problem: that people will congregate to learn how to apply 2,000-year-old mythology to their lives. A room full of people seeking someone to follow is a quite frightening prospect, and as long as people are so willing to act like cattle, wolves like Haggard will rise and take leadership positions, just as God ordains.