Leaders out of control at Charismatic Christian churches; devil blamed

In an arresting article posted on his publications's website, the editor of Charisma magazine says the leadership of Charismatic churches -- a loose term for independent conservative churches that believe in the "baptism of the Holy Spirit," speaking in tongues, and so on -- has lost its moral compass. J. Lee Grady writes of pastors who announced a "revelation" that men could fuck whoever they wanted to, a church where several male members were having gay sex with the male pastor, and another church where the female staff and the wives of the pastors all got breast implants. ("I wonder if they had a staff meeting about that.")

How does the author explain this epidemic of immorality? "The devil is working overtime, yet our discernment is at an all-time low... We've been bewitched." But my favorite sentence was:

Of course we forgive, but forgiveness does not involve putting a preacher back on stage the next week if he just had a serious moral failure.

Yes.... "back on stage." I can almost hear Jon Stewart utter his famous phrase, "So... this is theater."