'Pastor Ted and his family love Jesus'

Just in time for Sunday morning, the Rocky Mountain News answers the question no one -- except the few hundred folks left at New Life Church -- is asking: what about the children?? That is, how to explain to the children the very messy and scadalous departure of pastor Ted Haggard?

1. Jesus loves Pastor Ted and his family very, very much. Pastor Ted and his family love Jesus very, very much.

2. All people sin and make mistakes. Pastor Ted said he made some mistakes. A group of pastors who love Pastor Ted are helping him to correct those mistakes.

Und so weiter. It doesn't say how to answer the question "But what's crystal meth?" and "What's a massage?"

Meanwhile, the Denver Post has a run-of-the-mill overview of the issues of how Christians view homosexuality, and whether homosexuals can talk themselves out of homosexuality. It does contain one interesting note, toward the bottom:

"I am concerned he will go through this restoration process and come out the other end a confirmed heterosexual and become a poster child for the illegitimate process of reparative therapy," said Michael Brewer, public policy director for the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Community Center of Colorado.

Good call. I can just see it now -- Haggard redeems his standing in the Christianist community by becoming an example of the "saved" homosexual. He lobbies constantly against civil rights for gay people, since if he can "change," then being gay isn't a permanent condition, and thus gay people don't deserve civil rights.

Not looking forward to that. I am looking forward, though, to his inevitable and eventual final crackup and fall.

Ted Haggard, New Life Church, hypocrites