Liberal Gay-Bashing: Ted Haggard

Dems and liberals and assorted anti-Christian evangelical crusaders are so hypocritical.

The big story for the past couple of days has been the antics of Ted Haggard, president of the National Association of Evangelicals.

Why has his personal life been put under the microscope?

It's similar to the Mark Foley scandal.

It's not that elected officials or the lib media care about "child" congressional pages or the evangelicals.

There is an orchestrated effort to derail the Christian evangelical vote for Tuesday's election.

The libs' plan didn't work when they dropped the Foley bomb. It was a dud. So, for a November surprise, the Left brought out its nuclear arsenal.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- The Rev. Ted Haggard said Friday he bought methamphetamine and received a massage from a male prostitute. But the influential Christian evangelist insisted he threw the drugs away and never had sex with the man.

Haggard, who as president of the National Association of Evangelicals wielded influence on Capitol Hill and condemned both gay marriage and homosexuality, resigned on Thursday after a Denver man named Mike Jones claimed that he had many drug-fueled trysts with Haggard.

A quick question: Is it possible to condemn something and believe in its immorality, while simultaneously engaging in the behavior?

Yes. It happens all the time. I think it has something to do with being human.

On Friday, Haggard said that he received a massage from Jones after being referred to him by a Denver hotel, and that he bought meth for himself from the man.

But Haggard said he never had sex with Jones. And as for the drugs, "I was tempted, but I never used it," the 50-year-old Haggard told reporters from his vehicle while leaving his home with his wife and three of his five children.

Jones, 49, denied selling meth to Haggard. "Never," he told MSNBC. Haggard "met someone else that I had hooked him up with to buy it."

Jones also scoffed at the idea that a hotel would have sent Haggard to him.

"No concierge in Denver would have referred me," he said. He said he had advertised himself as an escort only in gay publications or on gay Web sites.

According to the Left: If you're a liberal, you're allowed to freely use illicit drugs, hire prostitutes, be a prostitute, engage in adultery, and, of course, be gay.

If you're conservative, however, such behavior is scandalous.

Understand?

...In addition to resigning his post at the NAE, which claims 30 million members, Haggard stepped aside as leader of his 14,000-member New Life Church pending a church investigation. In a TV interview this week, he said: "Never had a gay relationship with anybody, and I'm steady with my wife, I'm faithful to my wife."

Do you know what's ringing in my ears?

"I never had sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky."

Another case that comes to mind is that of former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey.

From Newsday:

Former Gov. James E. McGreevey revealed during an interview with Oprah Winfrey that he was having an affair with another man while his wife was hospitalized for the birth of their child... .

In the interview, the audience members said Winfrey explores McGreevey's lifelong struggle with his sexuality.

McGreevey recounted going to the library as an adolescent to look up the word "homosexual" in a dictionary. When he found it included terms like "perverse" and "psychiatric disorder," the Irish-Catholic said he quickly learned to repress his feelings, audience members said.

...The interview also explores how McGreevey came out to his wife and parents, how his life is more authentic today, and what life is like with Australian financial adviser Mark O'Donnell, whom he refers to as his "life partner," the audience members said.

Despite his reckless lifestyle, including gay trysts at truck stops with complete strangers, McGreevey is hailed as a hero, a brave advocate, a "gay American."

Any dishonesty involved in the secret and not so secret lives of Clinton and McGreevey is a purely personal matter, and not fodder for public discussion. That's for the individual and his spouse to sort out, not society at large.

In Haggard's case, however, any alleged dishonesty about his personal behavior is supposed to destroy him.

What libs have come out in support of Haggard?

Has McGreevey issued a statement?

How about the widower of Gerry Studds?

Barney Frank is another I'd like to hear from. He knows about prostitution, considering a gay prostitution ring operated out of his Capitol Hill home.

Have gay advocate groups come to Haggard's defense?

(Crickets chirping)

My purpose in bringing up these cases is to illustrate the dramatic difference between the treatment of Haggard and the treatment of liberals during and after a scandal.

It's a cruel double standard, grounded in pure hate.

In Denver, where Jones said his encounters with Haggard took place, police said in a news release they planned to contact the people involved for information on whether a crime was committed. The statement did not say whether an investigation was under way, and police spokeswoman Virginia Quinones declined to elaborate.

Lynn Kimbrough, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office, said that a public admission isn't enough by itself to bring a case, but that charges will be filed if criminal conduct can be proved.

At this point, the case is a smear campaign, just like the Foley case.

No charges have been filed.

It's the politics of personal destruction.

And there's another thing that disturbs me about the allegations against Haggard -- Why do the lib media, elected Dems, and Dem operatives assume that these revelations will influence the election?

Clearly, they're trying to demoralize the Christian evangelicals into sitting out this election.

Using Foley or Haggard to do it makes no sense to me.

As a result of the scandals or alleged scandals, why would any Christian evangelical decide to allow radical Leftists to take power in government?

Surely, most Republicans are far friendlier to their values than partial birth abortion-supporting Dems.

Surely, evangelicals realize that they are the ones actually coming under assault.

I think their intelligence and their tolerance are being underestimated by the Left again.

So what else is new?

Very troubling to me is the willingness on the part of Democrats and their lib media propaganda tentacles to bash conservative gays to score political points.

Why don't they grant Foley and Haggard the compassion, and ultimately the hero status, that formerly closeted liberal gays receive?

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