== God Hates Gay Evangelicals =MARK MORFORD'S NOTES & ERRATA

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SFGate.com - Wednesday, November 8, 2006


Will Pastor Ted's love of hot man sex open the narrow mind of the religious right?
(By Mark Morford)
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2006/11/08/notes110806.DTL&nl=fix

Let's assume it's all true. Let's assume that Ted Haggard is just deliriously, stupidly, crazyjuicy gay. I know, not much of a stretch, but let's go with it.

Yes, Pastor Ted, disgraced former leader of 30 million blithely homophobic evangelical Christians, yet another of those flamboyant semi-insane Liberace-with-a-Bible megachurch preachers, a man who had weekly conference calls with George W. Bush, a man who lobbied Congress on behalf of homophobic Supreme Court nominees, Ted has had so much gay sex with a male prostitute it makes Mark Foley look like child's play (so to speak). Fair enough?

Furthermore, let's assume the reaction of Haggard's stunned flock is also true, that many of his devout Christian set are "devastated" and "shocked" and "pulverized" and "beaten with God's own giant rod of icky homo scariness" (note: quotes not verified) about Ted's utter obvious gayness.

So, assuming all that, what's left? How about one overarching question: Will it make a difference? Will it be enough to affect any sort of ideological or spiritual change among the uptight and the sexually rigid? In short: Will God shake anyone awake? ...

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