Ted Haggard was one of the most prominent evangelical leaders in the nation until he admitted to having a sexual relationship with a male prostitute and buying meth. Focus on the family founder James Dobson, who considers Haggard a “close friend,” told CNN’s Larry King last night that he was “asked to serve on a three person restoration panel.” One purpose of the panel, Dobson acknowledged, was to “restore [Haggard] from being gay to not gay.” Dobson said he didn’t have time to participate, however, because such a process “could take four or five years.”
I would imagine that it’s hard, grueling work to change a self-righteous, intolerant man of God from “gay” to “not gay” and from “crank head” to “not crank head”. It’s also work that former DUMB@$$ AWARD wiener Rev. James Dobson seems unwilling to put in…even for someone he’s represented as being a close friend.
Some will debate whether or not “spiritual restoration” is merely window dressing designed to convince the faithful that the trangressor, in this case Rev. Ted Haggard, has been “fixed”, cured of whatever evil afflicted him, and is once again ready to go forth and resume his ix-figure income and high-flying lifestyle in the service of the Lord. I probably don’t have to tell you that I think “spiritual restoration” is a load of self-righteous crap designed to fool a preacher’s flock into thinking that God has rid him of his spiritual and moral afflictions. Then again, no one really cares what I think….
Of course, I’m still trying to figure out how you “ungay” someone. If any of y’all manage to get a handle on that one, let me know, willya?
