This is TOO much!

[JayB]

Ditto for "Moorehead," as anyone who can recall the travails of Bellevue's own Reverend Bob Moorehead in the late '90's.

[Dechristo]

Holy Subversives, Batman!

[fear_and_greed]

From the NYT,

Mr. Haggard said a Denver hotel referred him to Mr. Jones for the purpose of getting a massage. He said he met with Mr. Jones and bought the drug. “I was tempted, I bought it, but I did not use it,” he said today.

 

I almost snorted soup out of my nose when I read that one.

[Dechristo]

"I didn't inhale"

[E-rock]

If JayB would learn how to use punctuation, his posts would ALMOST be readable.

[tvashtarkatena]

uh,yeah, except there are thousands and thousands of pastors and only a handful of these cases a year.

A handful? You have apparently omitted the catholic church.

[KaskadskyjKozak]

uh,yeah, except there are thousands and thousands of pastors and only a handful of these cases a year.

A handful? You have apparently omitted the catholic church.

 

no, I haven't.

[cj001f]

A handful? You have apparently omitted the catholic church.

 

nah, KK has big hands

[KaskadskyjKozak]

A handful? You have apparently omitted the catholic church.

 

nah, KK has big hands

 

keep your gay fantasies about my big hands to your self

[underworld]

i'm sure his fantasies are of small hands. it boosts morale.

[cj001f]

i'm sure his fantasies are of small hands.

many hands make light work

 

I'll leave the small hand fisting to you

[JayB]

If JayB would learn how to use punctuation, his posts would ALMOST be readable.

 

Couldn:tagreemore`thanksforthesuggestion;

[cj001f]

If JayB would learn how to use punctuation, his posts would ALMOST be readable.

 

Couldn:tagreemore`thanksforthesuggestion;

 

speak your message to the youth JayB! Channel the South Park conservatives!

[JayB]

I think the birthrate disparity will take care of the youth without much intervention on my part.

 

"According to the 2004 General Social Survey, if you picked 100 unrelated, politically liberal adults at random, you would find that they had, between them, 147 children. If you picked 100 conservatives, you would find 208 kids. That's a "fertility gap" of 41%. Given the fact that about 80% of people with an identifiable party preference grow up to vote the same way as their parents, this gap translates into lots more little Republicans than little Democrats to vote in future elections."

 

Maybe this explains why the dude in Colorado was so opposed to Gay Marriage?

[G-spotter]

According to the 2004 General Social Survey, if you picked 100 unrelated, politically liberal adults at random, you would find that they had, between them, 147 children. If you picked 100 conservatives, you would find 208 kids. That's a "fertility gap" of 41%. Given the fact that about 80% of people with an identifiable party preference grow up to vote the same way as their parents, this gap translates into lots more little Republicans than little Democrats to vote in future elections

 

But immigrants tend to vote Democrat and what % of US population growth is due to immigration?

[JayB]

50% or thereabouts due to hispanic immigration. Of the hispanics that are eligible voters, 35-40% tend to vote Republican, 60-65% Democrat.

 

This may be the primary political dynamic driving party politics in the 21st century. "Will urban metrosexuals and their barren career women be able to outsource their reproduction effectively enough to counter the Mormon juggernuaght? Stay tuned..."

[Crux]

I did not use more methamphetamine when I never had sex with that male prostitute!

[G-spotter]

"I mistook him for a PageBoy"

[JayB]

A Harper's article from 2005 that I saw linked elsewhere contains an interesting passage describing the decor inside the Haggart MegaChurch:

 

"After church, I walked across the parking lot to the World Prayer Center, where I watched prayers scroll over two giant flat-screen televisions while a young man played piano. The Prayer Center—a joint effort of several fundamentalist organizations but located at and presided over by New Life—houses a bookstore that when I visited was called the Arsenal (its name has since been changed to Solomon's Porch), as well as “corporate” prayer rooms, personal “prayer closets,” hotel rooms, and the headquarters of Global Harvest, a ministry dedicated to “spiritual warfare.” (The Prayer Center's nickname in the fundamentalist world is “spiritual NORAD.”) The atrium is a soaring foyer adorned with the flags of the nations and guarded by another bronze warrior angel, a scowling, bearded type with massive biceps and, again, a sword. The angel's pedestal stands at the center of a great, eight-pointed compass laid out in muted red, white, and blue-black stone. Each point directs the eye to a contemporary painting, most depicting gorgeous, muscular men—one is a blacksmith, another is bound, fetish-style, in chains—in various states of undress. My favorite is The Vessel, by Thomas Blackshear, a major figure in the evangelical-art world.[2] Here in the World Prayer Center is a print of The Vessel, a tall, vertical panel of two nude, ample-breasted, white female angels team-pouring an urn of honey onto the shaved head of a naked, olive-skinned man below. The honey drips down over his slab-like pecs and his six-pack abs into the eponymous vessel, which he holds in front of his crotch. But the vessel can't handle that much honey, so the sweetness oozes over the edges and spills down yet another level, presumably onto our heads, drenching us in golden, godly love. Part of what makes Blackshear's work so compelling is precisely its unabashed eroticism; it aims to turn you on, and then to turn that passion toward Jesus. "

 

Or a meth-fueled cornholeathon, apparently.

 

Harper's Article from 2005

[tvashtarkatena]

In the land of milkshake and honeys...

Edited November 5, 2006 by tvashtarkatena

[tvashtarkatena]

Even though I fuck dudes and dally with eye shadow and meth, I will feel no evil, for you were with me; your rod and your staff, they comforted me.

Edited November 5, 2006 by tvashtarkatena

[JayB]

Interesting article, but at times the writing is so overwrought that the author must have had to do some tai chi and reach for his inhaler between paragraphs.

 

Colorado Springs....the poor man's Salt Lake City.

[G-spotter]

"Congregation, please be seated, and open your prayer guides to the Book of Revelations.... Psalm 69"

[tvashtarkatena]

Interesting article, but at times the writing is so overwrought that the author must have had to do some tai chi and reach for his inhaler between paragraphs.

 

Anything else would never make it past their pithiness editor.

[JayB]

Looks like Haggard's final statement to his church is up.

 

http://www.newlifechurch.org/TedHaggardStatement.pdf

 

Not renouncing his beliefs - which will probably surprise, dissapoint, and outrage most people - but at least he's not blaming anyone or anything else for his actions.