American Mullah: Ted Haggard the Hypocrite

The first I heard of this American Mullah was an interview in Richard Dawkins' documentary "Root of All Evil".

In the documentary Pastor Ted, as he is known to his 14,000 strong mega-church congregation, supported the myth of “intelligent design” and suggested that “Islamicization” was the greatest issue facing Europe.

Forget Europe staking a claim as a counter-power to the United States, forget further political and military integration; the greatest problem for White Christan Europe, according to this American Mullah, is how Muslim women chose to dress and how Muslims chose to worship.

One must protect cultural fabric after all. Right?

Well as it turns out Pastor Ted is, in his own words, a “Liar and Deceiver”(1).
The Islamophobic man of God, until recently, refused to even debate alternative sexual lifestyles, stating that "we don't have to debate about what we should think about homosexual activity, it's written in the Bible." (2)

Pastor Ted takes the bible literally, and what the Bible says about homosexuality is quite shaking.

Lev. 20:13, "If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltness is upon them"

So by Pastor Ted’s moral code, gays should be put to death. But big deal, he is entitled to his view. Right? While your blogger cannot disagree that Pastor Ted has a right to his view, he must point out that Pastor Ted boasts to have weekly access to President Bush. A phone call every Tuesday in fact.

But even that really no big deal, Bush needs all the political support he can get and there are many indications that Bush hardly takes the religious right all that seriously; even calls them “the crazies” when they are not around. He’s not about to introduce the death penalty for sodomy anytime soon.

The big deal here is, Mike Jones, a Denver based male-prostitute has accused Pastor Ted of having a decade long relationship with him. If that’s not bad enough, Jones claims to have sold Haggard a weekly supply of the illicit drug “Crystal Meth”. (3) One of the most dangerous and addictive drugs known to man, “Crystal Meth” is known to heighten sexual pleasure, especially among
gay men.

Pastor Ted is a hypocrite,that much is obvious to everyone. What is not necessarily obvious to everyone is what causes people like Catholic Priests, Aussie Imams (see my post), and American Mullahs to have such deeply hypocritical views on sexuality.


Sources
(1)http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-haggard6nov06,0,7806096.story?coll=la-home-headlines
(2)http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/06/04/groups_gay_marriage_issue_not_congresss/
(3)http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/05/haggard.allegations/index.htm