Ted Haggard totally seems to be struggling with issues of emasculation. This has been a topic of thought for me for quite awhile. A lot of Christianity seems to be completely fine with emasculated males devoting themselves to God’s work. I don’t have a problem with anyone with problems devoting themselves to God. What I have a problem with is when the problem becomes a desired attribute in a person. For anyone who believes in spiritual problems, even a person with relatively no spiritual understanding can see that Ted had a major spiritual problem. Why did none of his spiritually supercharged friends see this? Or talk to him about it? Religions like Buddhism also emasculate males in a psychological/spiritual sense. But there is generally a difference, religions like Buddhism don’t teach someone to seek power and higher (more knowledge, more wisdom, more money, more control, more power, more perfection, etc) states of being. When you have an emasculated male who hates his own identity seeking power, get ready for a big freaking mess. I think the church likes emasculated males because they are more submissive. This preference prevented anyone from approaching Ted about his obvious struggle with his identity.

To all those people who think Ted would have been better off living as a gay man, tell that to his 5 kids who wouldn’t be here. Telling someone they should never have been born is the same as wishing them dead. So quit being sexuality absolutists.

If this were a gay liberal he wouldn’t be hiding.

Well, I now better understand the Clinton-hating righties’ outrage when BC said ” I smoked (weed) but didn’t inhale” and his famous claim “I did not have sex with that woman”.

Turns out BC did not consider mere oral sex as real sex. So maybe Ted has his own definition of what he considers sex?

Truth is, most reasonable people do not give a darn much which pleasures consenting adults pursue.

I do feel sorry for Ted’s wife. She is a nice looking lady and must be suffering horribly.

God grant her the strength to get thru the pain she must be feeling..

It’s not that his gay; it’s the hypocracy.

During the course of the House Ethics Committee’s investigation, Studds publicly acknowledged his homosexuality, a disclosure that, according to a Washington Post article, “apparently was not news to many of his constituents.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Studds

Not exactly hiding, although a certain amount of descretion was necessary, what with all of the conservative homophobes in this country. At least he wasn’t simultaneously advancing anti-gay causes. Haggard, like many of these in-the-closet conservatives, is the worst kind of hypocryt. The more they hate gays, the gayer they turn out to be. Santorum must be king (or would that be queen?) of the flamers.

Trying to conflate this with Clinton’s arrogant, finger wagging on national TV with his submissive wife sitting beside him is laughable. Clinton violated the public trust and betrayed the integrity of his Office; If Ted did anything here, it was in private; he didn’t lie to the nation about it. He is maybe guilty of hypocrisy in his personal life. The guy who “outed” him has an agenda to trash anyone who doesn’t toe the “gay marriage” line.

Ok, I have to say one more thing. Just because someone is emasculated in behavior does not mean they are gay. I had a friend who was raped by two of his uncles from the time he was about 6. His mom didn’t care because she had no morality at all. And she thought his acting like a woman was funny. He was emasculated. He was gay. Ironically, when he found out I didn’t support homosexuality; he asked me why I condemned other people for doing what was part of their nature. For the record, I do not believe sexual molestation in and of itself causes homosexuality. But I said that I believed a lot of males were either physically(molestation) or emotionally emasculated, and as a result, are left lusting after what they long to be. I said that about 30 percent of the population is molested and about 6 percent of the population is gay. I said there was probably a strong correlation between the two. My friend and his gay friend with him both said they had never been molested. I found out later about the two uncles… And the friend that was with him, his dad was in jail for molesting him… So they both lied… And I had to ask myself, why? So next time you make a crack at Clay Aikens, remember and respect his choice not to accept his emasculation. And Ted Haggard doesn’t need to realize he is gay, he needs to deal with his terrible values and possibly something from his past. So flipping leave him and all emasculated males who choose to live as if they are not alone. The crowd in these cases is always chanting jump, jump, jump. As if submission is the answer…

Do you think it’s time for abstinence only education for gay republicans evangelicals and congessmen? /snark/

Tell that to Gerry Studds.