Haggard Praised SCOTUS Decision on TX Law

[Rose Siding]

Though Haggard has spoken out on abortion and same-sex marriage from time to time, he is less fiery on those topics than many of his colleagues are. He has pushed, instead, for a broader concept of biblical values: He wants evangelicals to be more involved in protecting the environment and helping the poor.

Haggard has not joined other evangelicals in campaigning against a Colorado initiative to provide domestic partnership benefits to same-sex couples. He also stood out among conservative preachers for publicly praising a 2003 Supreme Court decision that struck down a Texas anti-sodomy law.

"I believe the church has to teach against immorality," he told the Denver Post, "but I don't believe it's the role of the state to spend money to find out what consenting adults do in their bedrooms and then haul them off to jail."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-haggard4nov04,0,2088413,print.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Speaking out on abortion and same sex marriage? While I disagree strongly with him on both of those issues, there are some Democrats who do that. (Casey and Ford for example)

At least Haggard's participation in the blending of church and state is over. But I wonder if Parsley, the new head of that Megachurch (where they apparently skip over the part about "my kingdom is not of this world") will feel the same way about domestic partnership bennies, or keeping the govt out of the bedroom?

[autorank]

1. Rose Siding...he's talking about himself....

Here's a great video of Howard with journalist Richard Dawkins. Tells you pretty much all you need to know about his public persona

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmNjfpoRZpE&eurl=

[w13rd0]

2. Richard Dawkins...

...is not a journalist...

In the video with Dawkins, Haggard is arrogant, patronizing and a creationist. But he doesn't say anything about drug use or homosexuality. If Haggard, as he has claimed, disagrees with Bush about nothing, except their choice in cars, then he's a wrong-headed knuckle-dragger, but if this article is to be believed, he scores lower on the hypocrisy meter than some in the GOP.

[Rose Siding]

3. Boy, he's hypocritical even in that clip-

In his admonition to the interviewer not to be "intellectually arrogant", I've never seen such intellectual arrogance!

I just found it interesting to find that he wasn't the worst of the worst. (and I tend to reflexively dread frying pan to fire situations)

[Kber]

4. I think he was saying that the gov't shouldn't be trying to find out

what's going on in MY bedroom.