Haggard hired gay escort, but didn't have sex; bought drugs, but didn't use them! (You believe him, right?)

In this the new and improved socially conservative Republican version of "I did not inhale"?

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.

Puh-leez!

Is this credible?

Haggard, a vocal opponent of gay marriage, resigned as president of the National Association of Evangelicals on Thursday after being accused by a male escort of having had a sexual relationship with him and using meth.

"I did call him. I called him to buy some meth. But I threw it away. I was buying it for me but I never used it," Haggard, who looked uneasy as he sat in a car with his wife, said in an interview with KUSA TV in Colorado broadcast on CNN.

Asked if he had sex with his accuser, he replied tersely, "No I did not." He said he had sought the man out at a Denver hotel for a "massage."

This is just one leader among many who demand laws and Constitutional Amendments to keep them from being gay.

Imagine what Ted Haggard might have done had he been allowed to marry the man! No wonder there oughta be a law!