In a letter that was read to the congregation of the New Life Church by another clergyman, Haggard apologized for his acts and requested forgiveness.If he's saying that being homosexual is something that is "so repulsive and dark," then I'm not buying it. It's a load of suck-up crap conjured up for the consumption by his congregation, and it's his religion and his perverted interpretation of what he thinks the Bible says that is repulsive and dark.
"I am so sorry for the circumstances that have caused shame and embarrassment for all of you," he said, adding that he had confused the situation by giving inconsistent remarks to reporters denying the scandal.
"The fact is I am guilty of sexual immorality. And I take responsibility for the entire problem. I am a deceiver and a liar. There's a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I have been warring against it for all of my adult life," he said.
There's nothing wrong with being gay; it's the straight-laced religions and homophobes that have labeled it as a perversion and an abomination that is wrong, and Ted Haggard's repression of his natural self is what caused him to cheat on his wife, hook up with a prostitute, buy meth, and lie about it until the brutal truth came out. It wasn't his homosexuality that did that, it was his stunted growth as a gay man that did it.
Now that he's free to be who he is, perhaps he'll be able to grow up and have a normal and healthy life as a gay man. It would be an ironic end to a career that was built on the demonization of his own kind.
