Failed Restoration: This Gay Old Pastor
There is nothing as sinful or disgusting as homosexuality.
Two people touching each other with the reckless abandon that can only come from knowing exactly how the “equipment” of the other works. That desire overriding all the pleading prayers you have made. It is perverse and wrong.
Women are a mystery to me, and my wife knows that is how God intended it.
So then nothing is worse than a pastor who falls into that “lifestyle,” gets caught, and then refuses to leave. The sight of him ignites in us a reminder of the fall and all its sordid details. It creates an unnatural curiosity that leads us to a sinful place that we have worked so hard to avoid.
That is why I am praising God for H.B. London. On his Heart of a Pastor blog, he justly takes Ted Haggard to task for his sins, and casts him out! But like a bad penny from sodom, Mr. Haggard just won’t go away:
And so, it is nearly three years to the day from Mr. Haggard’s admission to indiscrete behavior — that resulted in his resignation as senior pastor of New Life Church — that a new congregation begins, located just one mile from the church he once pastored.
The irony of all of this is that, from the very beginning, Mr. Haggard had been counseled to go to another city, complete his restoration program, experience healing in his family and with his addiction, and only then begin again. But, he has made a choice not to do that.
That’s right! It is ironic that we should try to heal him of his affliction (in a very non-public way, that mostly involved showing him a map of all roads leading out of Colorado Springs), and yet he insists on not accepting this healing and failing his restoration.
Now we all know that Ted knows the way out of Colorado Springs since he went to Denver to buy drugs and a massage with a “happy ending” (at least that is what I heard it is called); but Ted insists on being a beacon of homosexual failure in a city that has previously been a triumphant example hetero-piety. If God had wanted Ted to live and minister in Colorado Springs, He would have put male hookers there; which He hasn’t as I have found no sign of them.
Ted just go away, and don’t remind us of what we already know.
