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Accused pastor admits he bought meth
NBC News ^ | 11-3-06 | NBC

Posted on 11/03/2006 11:32:59 AM PST by dogbyte12

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To: penelopesire

"Is the guy running for office or something? I heard Rush talking a bit about it, but still don't get why MSNBC is making a big deal out it!!"


Because he is a Christian Pastor and any cheap shot they can take at a Christian leader is not to be passed by.


101 posted on 11/03/2006 12:12:01 PM PST by BLS (You'll never know why you're alive until you know what you would die for.)
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To: middie
I don't know the guy. I am saddened though and find no joy that he may have done this. We are all sinners though. If true, he needs to do the honorable thing, and come clean, apologize and then accept the consequences of his actions. Suicide isn't honorable.
102 posted on 11/03/2006 12:12:06 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: penelopesire

Another reason this story is out there is to depress the evangelical vote. I've already had to preach to a relative about this.


103 posted on 11/03/2006 12:12:10 PM PST by Binghamton_native
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To: dogbyte12

104 posted on 11/03/2006 12:12:12 PM PST by Revelation 911
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To: dirtboy
Right up there with "I smoked it but never inhaled."

My thougth exactly.

105 posted on 11/03/2006 12:13:31 PM PST by It's me
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To: dogbyte12
“He has willingly and humbly submitted to the authority of the board of overseers, and will remain on administrative leave during the course of the investigation,” the e-mail stated.

Willingly, as in when there is no other way out. So, he's still being paid, too.

106 posted on 11/03/2006 12:14:08 PM PST by Ruth A. (we might as well fight in the first ditch as the last)
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To: BLS

"Because he is a Christian Pastor and any cheap shot they can take at a Christian leader is not to be passed by."

Of course that is part of why the press is doing this and all the more reason why we should not care! My disgust for the media has now hit an all time low!!


107 posted on 11/03/2006 12:14:28 PM PST by penelopesire
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To: MineralMan
Perhaps he gave it to someone else who used it, in exchange for ???

I think you might just have something there.

108 posted on 11/03/2006 12:14:51 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe (What's E85?????)
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To: penelopesire

Can someone tell me why this story matters? Is the guy running for office or something? I heard Rush talking a bit about it, but still don't get why MSNBC is making a big deal out it!!

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They think it will keep those crazy "evangelicals" at home for the elections, since they'll be so disheartened.

The probably think all the Christians will sit around in sackcloth on a pile of ashes and speak in tongues instead of voting. After all, that's what "they" do, isn't it?


109 posted on 11/03/2006 12:19:08 PM PST by rightinthemiddle (Without the Media, the Left and Islamofacists are Nothing.)
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To: penelopesire

"Can someone tell me why this story matters? Is the guy running for office or something? I heard Rush talking a bit about it, but still don't get why MSNBC is making a big deal out it!!"

I was wondering the same thing. Who is this guy and why do I care if he picked up a male prostitute.


110 posted on 11/03/2006 12:23:53 PM PST by Southerngl
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To: 50sDad
half a dozen people who looked to this man as an inspiring example of Christ are now sullen, disappointed and lost.

C'mon, it's way more than that. More people will now mock and reject the Word of God than ever tuned into his show.

I refuse to believe that God wants His ministers to be Rolexed and blow-dried and silk-suited on TV, milking pious little old ladies of their life's savings. This guy, and most like him, are of the Devil.

-ccm

111 posted on 11/03/2006 12:26:42 PM PST by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: Lijahsbubbe

"Perhaps he gave it to someone else who used it, in exchange for ???
I think you might just have something there.
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Yup. I might. Now, what could you trade meth for? I'm guessing sex. Lots of hookers use meth.

This is just an ugly little story. Will it get uglier? Nope. Haggard's headed for the rehab clinic for a month or so, just like all the other public figures who mess up. By the time he gets out, this will all have been replaced by some other scandal.

The folks who are really suffering in this ugly mess are those in the congregation of this tool's church. They've been listening to this man on the pulpit. They believed what he said. Now? Well...they're going to have to rethink. Some will lose their faith over this stupid idiot's inability to control whatever it is he can't control.

As you can see, I'm a non-Christian, but many people I love dearly are Christians, and stories like this make me want to puke, to be quite frank.

I met Billy Graham once. I got to talk to him for about 15 minutes. Now, there was an evangelical Christian about whom there was never a hint of scandal. He wouldn't even meet with a woman without a third person present. He did not want to even have anyone able to say that there was even a whisper of scandal about his life.

He was a rare man. He was a terrific speaker. He was a genuinely decent man of religion.

Sadly, many others in his profession are not as he was.


112 posted on 11/03/2006 12:26:44 PM PST by MineralMan (Non-evangelical Atheist)
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To: MineralMan

And he would have been the first to tell you that he was not without sin.


113 posted on 11/03/2006 12:31:03 PM PST by Frapster (Don't mind me - I'm distracted by the pretty lights.)
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To: MineralMan
The folks who are really suffering in this ugly mess are those in the congregation of this tool's church.

And his fellow, to use the term loosely, preachers. Many people see this story and it gives them fuel to their theory that all big church preachers are phoney.

114 posted on 11/03/2006 12:31:10 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe (What's E85?????)
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To: dogbyte12

Exactly.


115 posted on 11/03/2006 12:36:32 PM PST by wouldntbprudent (If you can: Contribute more (babies) to the next generation of God-fearing American Patriots!)
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To: rightinthemiddle

"The probably think all the Christians will sit around in sackcloth on a pile of ashes and speak in tongues instead of voting. After all, that's what "they" do, isn't it?"


LOL(that was funny) Oh well...I am going back to find the WMD threads and the sad sacks over at the NYT and the IAEA.....


116 posted on 11/03/2006 12:37:41 PM PST by penelopesire
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To: Frapster

Yes, Graham would have said that. No doubt he sometimes had the sin of pride, or of anger, or of one of the many ways people fail. He didn't fall prey to the sins of the flesh, though, I'm pretty sure.

It was a real pleasure to talk with him. I found him to be a brilliant man, and a humble one, too.


117 posted on 11/03/2006 12:39:36 PM PST by MineralMan (Non-evangelical Atheist)
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To: Lijahsbubbe

"Many people see this story and it gives them fuel to their theory that all big church preachers are phoney."

That's a pity. Some of them, no doubt, are phoney, but I'm sure not all.


118 posted on 11/03/2006 12:40:29 PM PST by MineralMan (Non-evangelical Atheist)
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To: dogbyte12
He is an important religious figure in this country.

Doesn't say much about the state of religion here, does it?

119 posted on 11/03/2006 12:42:13 PM PST by ShadowDancer (No autopsy, no foul.)
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To: P-Marlowe; jude24; blue-duncan

I posted an article about the NAE not too long ago, and it had to do with some liberal position or democratic party support that they had announced. I knew they had gotten on the wrong track.

It's interesting how this comes out right before the election, and it's a liberal EVANGELICAL who is at fault.

That needs to be pointed out clearly.

At the same time, even after we become Christian, the flesh can defeat us. "The things I want to do, I don't; and the things I don't want to do, I do. Who shall deliver me from this body of death? I thank God for my Lord Jesus Christ."

"If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us."


120 posted on 11/03/2006 12:44:39 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and proud of it! Supporting our troops means praying for them to WIN!)
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