Another One Bites the Dust

By now, you have probably heard all about Ted Haggard, the now-deposed Senior Pastor of New Life Church and newly-former President of the National Association of Evangelicals. Apparently, the not-so-good Pastor (who favors outlawing same-gender marriages on the grounds that they will break up families) bought methamphetamine from and engaged in trysts with a male prostitute. According to the prostitute, Mr Haggard would snort the meth before they engaged in what Haggard described as "sexual immorality." According to Haggard, he had a "massage" and threw the drugs away. I'm sorry, rev, but "throwing the drugs away" is even more preposterous than "I tried pot but I didn't inhale." As for the other details of the encounter (or encounters) all I can say is that it must have been one hell of a massage if it made him resign from his post as Senior Pastor of his church.

Which leads me to the next bit of preposterousness. I still can't figure out how allowing two people of the same gender to marry is going to lead to the decline of the American family. I think that hypocrisy, infidelity, hiring a prostitute, and purchasing/using illegal drugs would lead to the decline of more families than would allowing two men or two women to marry one another. I just don't see heterosexual couples saying "if the gays and lesbians can get married, then we'll stay single! No more having babies, buying homes, and attending church for us!" Then again, if we allow gay people to marry and grant them the same rights and expect them to fulfill the same responsibilities as we do heterosexual people, it might be more difficult to demonize them. And we certainly can't have that.