`Hypocrisy problem' may cost GOP votes

[chat_noir]

David Crary/Associated Press
Monday, November 6, 2006

With the Mark Foley scandal still troubling Republicans, one of the nation's top evangelical leaders is now accused of paying for gay sex.

Heading into Tuesday's election, when voters in eight states will decide on same-sex marriage bans, liberals and some conservatives are saying the party that prides itself on family values has a hypocrisy problem.

Ted Haggard, a staunch foe of same-sex marriage and occasional participant in White House conference calls, resigned as president of the National Association of Evangelicals and head of his 14,000-member Colorado church following allegations he met monthly with a homosexual prostitute for three years.

In a message to his congregation Sunday, Haggard said "the accusations that have been leveled against me are not all true, but enough of them are true that I have been appropriately and lovingly removed from the ministry."

http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2006/nov/06/hypocrisy-problem-may-cost-gop-votes/

[FightingIrish]

1. Now there's a line that * could use.

[reichstag911]

2. What,...

..."appropriately and lovingly removed?" It would be nice to hear the chimp stammer and drawl that one out, wouldn't it?!?

[niceypoo]

3. I know a family of republicans who are voting a strait dem ticket even though it pains them to do so

It's all about the corruption and Kleptomania. The constant stream of "Iraq is a success" from Bush and Cheney and the unfilled promises about abortion. Each of them are single issue (abortion) voters but they are also very ethical people. They dont like being lied to. Its not just Bush they dont like. Its the whole GOP. None have ever voted for a democrat before. There is the one parent (the dad died of alzheimers last week) and five grown siblings. Thats six for the D column.

[kenny blankenship]

4. Then again you're talking about *Republicans*

Hypocrisy is a virtue among Republicans, so don't be surprised...

[yellowcanine]

5. "appropriately and lovingly removed from the ministry." Is he still collecting a salary?

Has he paid back the church money he used for drugs and sex?

[William Seger]

6. It should only be third on the list, really

... right after corruption and incompetence.