LaShawn Barber has what is probably the most balanced commentary on the Ted Haggard debacle.
Hypocrisy is mightier than the sword. When you preach/teach/nag against something and people find out you’re doing the thing you preach/teach/nag against, you are a hypocrite who deserves ridicule, especially if you’re high profile.
Having said all that, I have to say this: No Christian should be surprised that Haggard may have given in to his perverted thoughts and turned them into perverted actions. It’s a temptation we all face (temptation in general, people, not necessarily the same-sex kind).
The simple fact is, Man is Fallible. We are always mistaken whenever we place too much faith or hope in either individual men or institutions built by men.
I am amazed that the guy sat beside his wife attempting to sell this as as mistake, and that his dealings with the gay escort were only for a massage and to buy drugs he never used - come on. My wife loves me and has for over 15 years but at that moment she would beat me about the head and exit the car!
Of course the flaws with modern evangelicalism and their pragmatic worldview - the lesser of two evils theory. I discussed some of the problems with this phenomenon before.
Phil Johnson has an excellent take on what has gone wrong with evangelicalism:
The back-story here includes just about everything wrong with 21st-century "evangelicalism." This was the top leader of the largest organization representing America's old-guard evangelical core. The movement (not everyone associated with it, of course, but the drift of the movement as a whole) long ago sold out eternal values for more pragmatic and temporal concerns: political power, contemporary fashions, public opinion, and a lopsided moral agenda.
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