The latest say-for-pay revelations from America’s sweethearts, Gayle and Ted Haggard…
Disgraced pastor Ted Haggard says he wanted his wife to divorce him after a sex scandal involving another man, but she refused. Haggard made the comments in a two-part episode of the syndicated television show “Divorce Court” to be broadcast April 1-2. The show released a partial transcript Tuesday….
Ted Haggard said he wasn’t rejecting his wife but thought he had become so “toxic” that divorce was best for her and their children. He said she replied, “No way. I’m not going to do that.”
Ted Haggard told the show’s “presiding judge,” Lynn Toler, that when he consulted with pastors about his sexual struggle, they advised him to pray about it, but that didn’t help. Since then, he said, he has consulted Christian counselors in secular counseling centers and now no longer has sexual desire for men.
So prayer didn’t work, it didn’t help—Ted couldn’t pray away the gay. But a little secular counseling was somehow able to do what Almighty God Himself could not. Good to know.
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On this we’ve always agreed.
Does anyone have a site or reference where I could find out more about Ted Haggard’s comments regarding homosexuality? The reason I’m asking is simple, though probably not accceptable to many. If the man considers homosexuality to be a sin, he should have presented his basis for that belief, Biblical passages. He could have explained how those verses apply today. At the same time, he could have experienced temptations toward that sin, and even given in to those pressures. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I myself believe that lustful imaginations about women other than my wife is sinful. However, that belief doesn’t remove occasional fantasy from occurring. It requires deliberate effort to shift my attention to more wholesome thoughts. Haggard’s great problem might be having allowed his personal struggle with temptation to generate a hatred toward others who practice and promote it as positive and healthy.
Y’all remind me of a parable of the pharisee and the Tax-collector. Pointing a finger at all Ted has done, and all Ted is saying ” I was wrong, I made wrong choices”. And Jesus said that the Tax-collector was vindicated and not the pharisee. So stop this non-sense and look in a mirror at your own lives first.