3 November 2006 - 10:22am
Yet another self-hating homosexual Evangelical leader?
Stories like this seem to be very common in the past few years.
The leader of the 30 million-member National Association of Evangelicals, a vocal opponent of same-sex marriage, resigned Thursday after being accused of paying for sex with a man in monthly trysts over the past three years....
...Mike Jones, 49, of Denver told The Associated Press he decided to go public with his allegations because of the political fight. Jones, who said he is gay, said he was upset when he discovered Haggard and the New Life Church had publicly opposed same-sex marriage.
"It made me angry that here's someone preaching about gay marriage and going behind the scenes having gay sex," said Jones, who added that he isn't working for any political group.
Jones, whose allegations were first aired on KHOW-AM radio in Denver, claimed Haggard paid him to have sex nearly every month over three years. Jones also said Haggard snorted methamphetamine before their sexual encounters to heighten his experience....
...He said that he last had sex with Haggard in August and that he did not warn him before making his allegations this week.
Jones said he has voice mail messages from Haggard, as well as an envelope he said Haggard used to mail him cash, though he declined to make any of it available to the AP.
"There's some stuff on there (the voice mails) that's pretty damning," he said.
For the record, Haggard denies everything.
Yet this is hardly the first time a staunch, some might say rabid, opponent of civil rights for homosexuals has been outed as secretly homosexual, which is a shame -- or which seems to be shame itself transformed into nationwide politics. Hate -- self-hatred or hate projected towards others -- is a terrible thing.
Does this describe Haggard? I have no idea. Maybe Jones is a crank. This incident seems to fit the pattern. Perhaps time will tell.
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"Self-hating?" I don't think so.
Firstly, I'm not a member of his religious organization and disapprove both his theology AND sin. He obviously realizes homosexuality is sin against God and his own body, but hasn't learned how to overcome it as God instructed Cain in the Old Testament. Too bad. There were others in 1Co 6 who learned how to overcome it, whom Paul knew and said were "washed, sanctified and justified." Of course, that means they gave it up for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit doesn't occupy a place in a body as His temple when another part of that body is lying, committing adultery, fornication, etc. Just so I'm not misunderstood, the Holy Spirit is only received at time of immersion in water FOR remission of sins TO receive His indwelling. The burial in water does not allow for crawling up out of that grave to go back to sin without the consequences of that sin. Ahem!
Dan
If he's convinced homosexuality is a sin against his God, well, that's his own purgatory. What's self-hating about it, and typical of this kind of mental/emotional pathology, is that he projects it outward, and demands that everyone else conform to his own views.
In other words, other people's homosexuality is none of his business, is it?