Like name, like current emotions

Days after admitting to taking methamphetamines, the top pastor at New Life mega-church, Ted Haggard has 'fessed up to having regular gay sex with a man - the allegations were irrefutable. To say that he was "warring inside of himself" rather sidesteps the fact that he was letting another man into himself for three years (or was Haggard always the giver). It is interesting that he considered admitting to drug abuse was not as bad as doing the same about homosexual rumpy-pumpy, given the gap in the days between the two. Not that he has led a wholly Christian life anyway, full of judgement and condemnation, lacking in forgiveness; and actively getting into politics was far from wise because religion is always the first casualty of the muck-slinging. Remember, give unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto God, what is God's - the outlining of the separation of church and state).
All the public figures on the right are seeking to distance themselves from ever being connected to Haggard, as if a disease was possible, instead of offering compassion and pity, mercy and sympathy; one must call into relief, however, that Haggard would be doing exactly the same thing, if this wasn't him in the media dock.
So Haggard must be feeling pretty much like his name right now. Having resigned his position, maybe he could make a stab at a comeback by claiming some grievous sadness in his life. Mark Oaten for the Liberal Democrats said his balding drove him into the arms of a male prostitute.
And Haggard has criticised Clinton's sexual excesses. A certain (Son of) Man 2000 years ago said "Take the beam out of your own eye before you criticise the speck of sand in someone else's". It wasn't Haggard who took the beam out of his own eye though, it was his male partner who did so, outraged at Haggard pressing for a ban on same-sex marriages (wholly gratuitous in a state such as Colorado anyway, but the political theme returns). The wanton hypocrisy sickened Haggard's gay lover and made him come out with Haggard unexpectantly in tow. What is best at this moment is to let Haggard and his family sort out their future of their lives in privacy. Maybe if Haggard reappears in public gaze in the future, we will see a more humble side of him yet to be seen.