Haggard must have more faith than I do
For me it took over a decade of prayer, fasting, struggling, reparative therapy and pain to finally realize that I was NOT going to change. I was gay.
But after saying he has struggled with these ‘homosexual demons’ all his life, and being treated for sexual addiction he says he only had one homosexual encounter and well,
he’s cured. He is now ‘completely heterosexual’.
As Andrew Sullivan says:
It’s a therapy that is actually an illness. And Haggard is getting sicker.
He’s right. I believe there are a few people out there who weren’t ‘gay’ in the first place, perhaps they were bisexual or did just have one encounter that scared them, and through some therapy realize their ‘heterosexuality’
But for the overwhelming majority of gay men who have these feelings for years, it will be predictable. They will either suffer for years on end trying to ‘change’ hurting both themselves and others or they will come to accept themselves and find some happiness for themselves and others.
It appears Haggard is of that majority (you don’t seek out a male prositute many times or say you’ve ’struggled for years’ if you are straight) and has chosen to reenter the first destructive path.
I’ve been down that path, it ain’t pretty.
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It’s peculiar how some bad words have two consecutive g’s in them – the “n” word, the “f” word, bugger, bootlegger, Haggard…
just a thought
Hmm, never thought of it that way..
Maybe Haggard will become a verb or noun like ‘Santorum’ did (though I won’t repeat the definition hear… look it up
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Haggard: The feeling you get when you’ve been caught being hypocritically anti-gay while in the closet but refuse to come out.. as in…
“Even though we saw him going to strip joints, he denies it. He must be very haggard”
Haggard is in for even more
Haggard has said that in three weeks he’s been totally cured. Well, after his own church’s report, DenverPost.com – Flags in Haggard’s fall, it looked like his ‘long struggle’ has been years in the making and many people knew about…