Can't hide, sinner

So last year, when I wrote that paper about evangelicals who pray for the souls of cities, this man, Ted Haggard, who is the head of the Natl Evangelical Assn, and the founder of New Life Church in Co. Springs (huge megachurch, I think maybe over 10,000 members), was the author of three of my sources.

In some of those books he recounted experiences sitting outside of "adult bookstores" and gay clubs, waiting to ambush people who came out with the force of his pitying prayer. Sometimes, if the people who came out were members of his church, he'd approach them and see if they "needed his help" getting out of the spiritual pit into which they'd dug themselves.

Now a CO man has come forward telling the world that he and Haggard had sex (that would be GAY sex), and that he helped Haggard score meth. The guy's story is pretty credible - he has recordings of some of the conversations he had with Haggard.

I'm not sure whether to be surprised or not. What makes me mad is that this will probably make no difference in the midterm elections, even though it should, because Haggard has had unprecedented access to the White House (he used to talk to the President or Rove like once a week - that phone line has probably been cut off at this point!). Access which he used to push anti-gay and abstinence-only agendas. Ah, the dark, hypocritical miasma at the heart of that whitened smile...