Word: haggard
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...RALPH, one of four ministers who oversaw weeks of intensive counseling for disgraced evangelical leader Ted Haggard, who admitted to improprieties involving a male prostitute...
Workingman’s Blues #2 Nods to Merle Haggard and to Brownie McGhee. Like the whole album, takes us back to the ’30’s in some place or other, maybe during the Depression; slightly menacing in a world gone wrong, and with the specter of modern globalization injustice hanging over everything. Favorite lines: “In you my friend I find no blame”/ “Wanna look in my eyes please do”/ “No one can ever claim that I took up arms against...
...amount of time haggard, harried Harvard undergrads have devoted to campaigning, reporting, and generally gossiping about this election—akin to a middle-school class president election on amphetamines—is absurd. Through student publications and blogs such as Cambridge Common and Team Zebra, this year’s election has received more press coverage than the Lewinsky scandal...
This is not a man who has chosen his sexual preference. If ever there was someone who would have rejected homosexuality, it would have been Ted Haggard, and, even given his undoubtedly immoral indiscretions, it is despicable that evangelicals would rather promptly turn their backs on one of their most devoted leaders than consider this possibility...
...that is precisely what is happening. According to Reverend Louis Sheldon, another champion of the Christian Right, in an interview with The Jewish Week, “[Haggard] said homosexuality is genetic. I said, no it isn’t. But I knew he was covering up. They need to say that.” Where could Haggard have gotten the kooky, left-wing impression that homosexuality was innate, not chosen? Probably from that kooky, left-wing thing called personal experience. Or does the Bible trump that...