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	<title>Comments on: Anti-Gay Evangelical Leader Resigns After Accusations of Gay Affair</title>
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		<title>By: Gene</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/02/haggard-resigns/comment-page-3/#comment-1080152</link>
		<dc:creator>Gene</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 03:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We all make our own decisions and mistakes.  Is it really fair to classify all Evangelical Christians in one catagory when one person falls.  Not everyone lies, cheats, steals, fools around, ect... and I feel it is not right to say that all Evangelical Christians hypocrits.  We all make our own decisions, just as Ted Haggard made his.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We all make our own decisions and mistakes.  Is it really fair to classify all Evangelical Christians in one catagory when one person falls.  Not everyone lies, cheats, steals, fools around, ect&#8230; and I feel it is not right to say that all Evangelical Christians hypocrits.  We all make our own decisions, just as Ted Haggard made his.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1080152', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Christian Pelham</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/02/haggard-resigns/comment-page-3/#comment-1079394</link>
		<dc:creator>Christian Pelham</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2006 22:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I had never heard of PastorTed Haggard until last week. It took about one millisecond of watching him on YOUTUBE to set my Gaydar bells off by the million.  Meth junkie sodomite, hooker obsessed preacher focused On the Anus, nellie &#039;ol patriot pastor persecuted Christian Republican bigot. 

Stop your hate! Out all hypocrites. End this war on GLBT America. Enough is Enough.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I had never heard of PastorTed Haggard until last week. It took about one millisecond of watching him on YOUTUBE to set my Gaydar bells off by the million.  Meth junkie sodomite, hooker obsessed preacher focused On the Anus, nellie &#8216;ol patriot pastor persecuted Christian Republican bigot. </p>
<p>Stop your hate! Out all hypocrites. End this war on GLBT America. Enough is Enough.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1079394', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: daisy</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/02/haggard-resigns/comment-page-3/#comment-1074666</link>
		<dc:creator>daisy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2006 20:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>some one should just aks pastor ted if he put that man&#039;s dick in his mouth.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>some one should just aks pastor ted if he put that man&#8217;s dick in his mouth.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1074666', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Innocent Bystander</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/02/haggard-resigns/comment-page-3/#comment-1074192</link>
		<dc:creator>Innocent Bystander</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>142-

Tucker Carlson tried to kneecap him yesterday, but this guy handled himself extremely well.  He&#039;s comfortable with his sexuality and he came across as forthright.  It must blow the minds of Haggard&#039;s evangelical flock to see that the gay guy has the integrity and their closeted meth freak pastor is the deceitful liar.</description>
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<p>Tucker Carlson tried to kneecap him yesterday, but this guy handled himself extremely well.  He&#8217;s comfortable with his sexuality and he came across as forthright.  It must blow the minds of Haggard&#8217;s evangelical flock to see that the gay guy has the integrity and their closeted meth freak pastor is the deceitful liar.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1074192', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Guiseppe</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/02/haggard-resigns/comment-page-3/#comment-1072529</link>
		<dc:creator>Guiseppe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2006 06:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Two gay adult men having sex:  we don&#039;t know who rear ended whom, but I must say, after hearing seeing Mike Jones (the &quot;escort&quot;), I found him an atractive and sexy looking man, and quite &quot;straightforward&quot; and honest about the relationship.  Admired his honest when the CNN reporter asked Mike if his expose was timed for the election.  Absolutely, he replied.  Mike has an agenda (equality under the law for gays) which I find most honorable that that of Rev. Haggard&#039;s hypocrisy.   At least the Reverend has good taste in men.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Two gay adult men having sex:  we don&#8217;t know who rear ended whom, but I must say, after hearing seeing Mike Jones (the &#8220;escort&#8221;), I found him an atractive and sexy looking man, and quite &#8220;straightforward&#8221; and honest about the relationship.  Admired his honest when the CNN reporter asked Mike if his expose was timed for the election.  Absolutely, he replied.  Mike has an agenda (equality under the law for gays) which I find most honorable that that of Rev. Haggard&#8217;s hypocrisy.   At least the Reverend has good taste in men.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1072529', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Darwin</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/02/haggard-resigns/comment-page-3/#comment-1071561</link>
		<dc:creator>Darwin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2006 01:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, I&#039;m not shocked a bit. Haggard came accross to me as..... well  a umm &quot;please pack my fudge&quot; type of guy........I think he is trying to create a diversion so that catholic priests can continue molesting children so everyone is happy, he gets to have sex with a man and catholic priests get to have the media drawn away from them... Although I don&#039;t think it will work quite well. I guess all pastors and priests are just fudge packed.

Jon</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, I&#8217;m not shocked a bit. Haggard came accross to me as&#8230;.. well  a umm &#8220;please pack my fudge&#8221; type of guy&#8230;&#8230;..I think he is trying to create a diversion so that catholic priests can continue molesting children so everyone is happy, he gets to have sex with a man and catholic priests get to have the media drawn away from them&#8230; Although I don&#8217;t think it will work quite well. I guess all pastors and priests are just fudge packed.</p>
<p>Jon<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1071561', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: PBR</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/02/haggard-resigns/comment-page-3/#comment-1070147</link>
		<dc:creator>PBR</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 20:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The link below connects Haggard and gay prostitute Gannon to the white House via Tim Goeglein, special ASSistant to Bush. 

http://www.mediatransparency.org....php? storyID=57</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The link below connects Haggard and gay prostitute Gannon to the white House via Tim Goeglein, special ASSistant to Bush. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.mediatransparency.org....php?" rel="nofollow">http://www.mediatransparency.org&#8230;.php?</a> storyID=57<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1070147', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: lestatdelc</title>
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		<dc:creator>lestatdelc</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 19:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;79. Comment by RealScientist â€” November 2, 2006 @ 9:28 pm&lt;/blockquote&gt;

All too true. This tracks right along with what conservative and former Nixon counselor and author John Dean&#039;s book, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-0670037745-0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Conservatives Without Conscience&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; talks about, where he meticulously and throughly lays out the hard evidence and the social science that is in play here. 

Social dominators and authoritarian followers are the two social profiles of what now makes up the GOP base and has given rise to the the Rove-Bush and GOP ascendancy at the polls, even though the current incarnation of the GOP is 180 degrees the opposite of being conservative, but are instead right-wing authoritarian radicals. Not yet done reading it, but it is truly eye-opening and solid so far.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>79. Comment by RealScientist â€” November 2, 2006 @ 9:28 pm</p></blockquote>
<p>All too true. This tracks right along with what conservative and former Nixon counselor and author John Dean&#8217;s book, <i><a href="http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-0670037745-0" rel="nofollow">Conservatives Without Conscience</a></i> talks about, where he meticulously and throughly lays out the hard evidence and the social science that is in play here. </p>
<p>Social dominators and authoritarian followers are the two social profiles of what now makes up the GOP base and has given rise to the the Rove-Bush and GOP ascendancy at the polls, even though the current incarnation of the GOP is 180 degrees the opposite of being conservative, but are instead right-wing authoritarian radicals. Not yet done reading it, but it is truly eye-opening and solid so far.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1070113', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: PBR</title>
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		<dc:creator>PBR</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 19:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>see this...another link in the chain

http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=57</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>see this&#8230;another link in the chain</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=57" rel="nofollow">http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=57</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1070093', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Frank</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/02/haggard-resigns/comment-page-3/#comment-1070005</link>
		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 19:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Americans are obsessed with gay stories. And they love to see a really famous person go down the drain: Michael Jackson, Mark Foley, and now this guy. I pity you all.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Americans are obsessed with gay stories. And they love to see a really famous person go down the drain: Michael Jackson, Mark Foley, and now this guy. I pity you all.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1070005', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: kevkev</title>
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		<dc:creator>kevkev</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 19:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>JONES - 1. A strong, overwhelming desire for anything you indulge in or acquire and never get enough of - money, sex, chocolate, gambling, clothes, etc. Originally referred to addiction to heroin or cocaine.
A â€œJonesâ€ is a habit or addiction.
You can have a â€œTraveling Jonesâ€
You can have a â€œBasketball Jonesâ€
(Cheech &amp; Chong )
You can have a â€œKeeping up with the Joneses Jonesâ€
Pastor Ted Haggard has a â€œMike Jones, Male Escort Jonesâ€ 
Rev Ted: Donâ€™t &quot;Jones&quot; me with your â€œJesus Jonesâ€</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>JONES &#8211; 1. A strong, overwhelming desire for anything you indulge in or acquire and never get enough of &#8211; money, sex, chocolate, gambling, clothes, etc. Originally referred to addiction to heroin or cocaine.<br />
A â€œJonesâ€ is a habit or addiction.<br />
You can have a â€œTraveling Jonesâ€<br />
You can have a â€œBasketball Jonesâ€<br />
(Cheech &amp; Chong )<br />
You can have a â€œKeeping up with the Joneses Jonesâ€<br />
Pastor Ted Haggard has a â€œMike Jones, Male Escort Jonesâ€<br />
Rev Ted: Donâ€™t &#8220;Jones&#8221; me with your â€œJesus Jonesâ€<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1069982', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: DRxJ</title>
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		<dc:creator>DRxJ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 19:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Happy + Dude,
What&#039;s up with posting on day old threads?  Trying to get the last &quot;post&quot; in? Or are you just too chickensh*t to post on current threads?
Just asking...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Happy + Dude,<br />
What&#8217;s up with posting on day old threads?  Trying to get the last &#8220;post&#8221; in? Or are you just too chickensh*t to post on current threads?<br />
Just asking&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1069971', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: tom baker</title>
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		<dc:creator>tom baker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 18:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>oh happy guy, your macho name-calling and hate-spewing are hurting my feelings - that&#039;s all you guys ever do, waah waah waah, stop picking on me...waah waah.....

f&#039;ing d**khead - can&#039;t wait to meet you in public.....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>oh happy guy, your macho name-calling and hate-spewing are hurting my feelings &#8211; that&#8217;s all you guys ever do, waah waah waah, stop picking on me&#8230;waah waah&#8230;..</p>
<p>f&#8217;ing d**khead &#8211; can&#8217;t wait to meet you in public&#8230;..<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1069922', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: gorn</title>
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		<dc:creator>gorn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 18:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Well, the male prostiture guy failed a lie detector test. Are you still going to assume guilt? Like you donâ€™t for CLinton, Kennedy, Reid. . . .&lt;/strong&gt;

Leaving aside that lie detector tests are notoriously unreliable, are you conveniently missing the fact that Teddy has admitted &quot;indescretions&quot;?

&lt;strong&gt;Oh, I forgot. Lefties are liars and hypocrites. &lt;/strong&gt;

Well, let&#039;s see if you can walk the walk like paul has. You are wrong about this story - Teddy has admitted guilt. 

Are you man enough to admit that you are wrong, or are you merely a liar and hypocrite yourself?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Well, the male prostiture guy failed a lie detector test. Are you still going to assume guilt? Like you donâ€™t for CLinton, Kennedy, Reid. . . .</strong></p>
<p>Leaving aside that lie detector tests are notoriously unreliable, are you conveniently missing the fact that Teddy has admitted &#8220;indescretions&#8221;?</p>
<p><strong>Oh, I forgot. Lefties are liars and hypocrites. </strong></p>
<p>Well, let&#8217;s see if you can walk the walk like paul has. You are wrong about this story &#8211; Teddy has admitted guilt. </p>
<p>Are you man enough to admit that you are wrong, or are you merely a liar and hypocrite yourself?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1069872', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: gorn</title>
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		<dc:creator>gorn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#128

Way to go, paul. Nice when people don&#039;t just talk the talk.

Admitting error is such a humbling yet empowering exercise, people should try it more often. If Dubya would try it, it might turn his life around.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#128</p>
<p>Way to go, paul. Nice when people don&#8217;t just talk the talk.</p>
<p>Admitting error is such a humbling yet empowering exercise, people should try it more often. If Dubya would try it, it might turn his life around.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1069702', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Happy+Guy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Happy+Guy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, the male prostiture guy failed a lie detector test.  Are you still going to assume guilt?  Like you don&#039;t for CLinton, Kennedy, Reid. . . .

Oh, I forgot.  Lefties are liars and hypocrites.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, the male prostiture guy failed a lie detector test.  Are you still going to assume guilt?  Like you don&#8217;t for CLinton, Kennedy, Reid. . . .</p>
<p>Oh, I forgot.  Lefties are liars and hypocrites.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1069700', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Samantha</title>
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		<dc:creator>Samantha</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 16:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Self hatred is a powerful thing.

When there is no self love or self acceptance, the door to the closet is always locked.  Always.  

But it&#039;s a shame to see so many gays and bisexuals like Crist, Foley, and this preacher, choose a political or religious/political profession where they often have the power to turn moral decisions into legal ones, for the rest of us.  

It&#039;s like a politician who keeps a secret that his father is black, saying Katrina hurricane victims are just welfare losers and black people are sub-human and criminals.

It&#039;s like a jew who changes his name from Reisenbaum to Reese, joins the wasp country club, and starts running his mouth about how jews are greedy and own hollywood.

Actually, it&#039;s worse than all that.  I&#039;m trying to find a suitable comparison and I just can&#039;t.  

Because when you advocate that your neighbor, who is law-abiding, tax-paying, with morals and values, who was born into a family who accepts him, who might even be raising a family of his own,...is not just a rotten person, but is AGAINST GOD, and insinuate that he/she cannot get into heaven, is incredibly damaging.  I mean, where do you go from there?  How do you even hold a dialogue?

As badly as african americans were treated in this country, even at their lowest point, beaten and deprived, humiliated and unable to keep a spouse, own anything, or sit next to anyone white,......I&#039;ve never read they the were told they couldn&#039;t get into heaven.

I mean, can you imagine?

That is really why this issue will never go away until it is solved.  Because we all know what the foundation of Republican and Christian opposition is.  It&#039;s not a reasonable debate between civil unions and marriage, or whatnot.  It&#039;s about hatred of gays, which of course ties into their own self hatred, and the way they were raised.  It&#039;s about the refusal to give another human being the dignity they deserve.  Even when that human being is your own son or daughter.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Self hatred is a powerful thing.</p>
<p>When there is no self love or self acceptance, the door to the closet is always locked.  Always.  </p>
<p>But it&#8217;s a shame to see so many gays and bisexuals like Crist, Foley, and this preacher, choose a political or religious/political profession where they often have the power to turn moral decisions into legal ones, for the rest of us.  </p>
<p>It&#8217;s like a politician who keeps a secret that his father is black, saying Katrina hurricane victims are just welfare losers and black people are sub-human and criminals.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s like a jew who changes his name from Reisenbaum to Reese, joins the wasp country club, and starts running his mouth about how jews are greedy and own hollywood.</p>
<p>Actually, it&#8217;s worse than all that.  I&#8217;m trying to find a suitable comparison and I just can&#8217;t.  </p>
<p>Because when you advocate that your neighbor, who is law-abiding, tax-paying, with morals and values, who was born into a family who accepts him, who might even be raising a family of his own,&#8230;is not just a rotten person, but is AGAINST GOD, and insinuate that he/she cannot get into heaven, is incredibly damaging.  I mean, where do you go from there?  How do you even hold a dialogue?</p>
<p>As badly as african americans were treated in this country, even at their lowest point, beaten and deprived, humiliated and unable to keep a spouse, own anything, or sit next to anyone white,&#8230;&#8230;I&#8217;ve never read they the were told they couldn&#8217;t get into heaven.</p>
<p>I mean, can you imagine?</p>
<p>That is really why this issue will never go away until it is solved.  Because we all know what the foundation of Republican and Christian opposition is.  It&#8217;s not a reasonable debate between civil unions and marriage, or whatnot.  It&#8217;s about hatred of gays, which of course ties into their own self hatred, and the way they were raised.  It&#8217;s about the refusal to give another human being the dignity they deserve.  Even when that human being is your own son or daughter.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1069489', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: paul</title>
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		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 16:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m here.  Sorry, I&#039;m late to you&#039;re party, I just saw this story in the paper and knew I had to come back and take a few hits.  Yesterday, I thought this story was thin, because it seemed like it was based solely on the allegations of the prostitute and timed to leave little ability for the pastor to respond, before the election.  But, if the guy is going to resign, it might as well be an admission of guilt.  This story is not thin; it is thick.  ThinkProgress was right about this story.  If the pastor is guilty of using male prostitutes on Saturday night and preaching about the evils of homosexuality on Sunday, it is hypocritical.  Sincerely; nice work TP.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m here.  Sorry, I&#8217;m late to you&#8217;re party, I just saw this story in the paper and knew I had to come back and take a few hits.  Yesterday, I thought this story was thin, because it seemed like it was based solely on the allegations of the prostitute and timed to leave little ability for the pastor to respond, before the election.  But, if the guy is going to resign, it might as well be an admission of guilt.  This story is not thin; it is thick.  ThinkProgress was right about this story.  If the pastor is guilty of using male prostitutes on Saturday night and preaching about the evils of homosexuality on Sunday, it is hypocritical.  Sincerely; nice work TP.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1069398', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: lightning</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/02/haggard-resigns/comment-page-3/#comment-1069387</link>
		<dc:creator>lightning</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 16:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What exactly will it finally take for the people who make up the religious right to clearly understand that they are being led around by nose. Their religious leaders, most of whom are in-bed with right-wing republicans, apparently are morally and ethically bankrupt, and are selling them into the conservative army of hate and fear.  Please join with me and vote democratic on November 7th and help return ethics and real morality to America.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What exactly will it finally take for the people who make up the religious right to clearly understand that they are being led around by nose. Their religious leaders, most of whom are in-bed with right-wing republicans, apparently are morally and ethically bankrupt, and are selling them into the conservative army of hate and fear.  Please join with me and vote democratic on November 7th and help return ethics and real morality to America.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1069387', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Tim Ellerbrock</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/02/haggard-resigns/comment-page-3/#comment-1069236</link>
		<dc:creator>Tim Ellerbrock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 15:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jesus was tolerant of the woman caught in adultery and understanding of the situation that she was in. He was virtually silent on the issue of &quot;homosexuality&quot; perhaps because it was a non-issue for him. He was the paradigm of compassion to anyone who recognized his or her own weaknesses. His moral code was based not on telling others what to do or how to behave but on how to love others. He was judgemental on only one matter - hypocracy. That seems to be a lesson frequently lost by our brothers and sisters on the religious right. Thank God I am weak and gay.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jesus was tolerant of the woman caught in adultery and understanding of the situation that she was in. He was virtually silent on the issue of &#8220;homosexuality&#8221; perhaps because it was a non-issue for him. He was the paradigm of compassion to anyone who recognized his or her own weaknesses. His moral code was based not on telling others what to do or how to behave but on how to love others. He was judgemental on only one matter &#8211; hypocracy. That seems to be a lesson frequently lost by our brothers and sisters on the religious right. Thank God I am weak and gay.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1069236', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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