Focus On The Family Frauds

Evangelical pastor Ted Haggard - who resigned as senior pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs after admitting he had sexual relations with another man - has proclaimed himself "completely heterosexual" after three weeks of "intensive counseling".

THREE WEEKS?!?! It was that simple huh? They just counseled all the gay-ness out of him? O.k. two questions. Who do these people think they are? And how the heck do they get hundreds of thousands of people to attend their churches and follow their advice? I imagine these are the same people who watch the 700 Club and actually believe that Pat Robertson and God "talk" on a daily basis. If I was an evangelical and heard these things from my suppossed "leaders" I would consider them to have a serious credibility issue. But that's just me and I'm just an old fashioned Lutheran so I guess it's not my problem.

While I'm on the subject, I've decided that James Dobson may be the scariest man alive today, given the number of people that hear his message on a daily basis. This is a man who believes that men have the divine right to be the leaders of their family and that women have the divine obligation to submit to their authority. He disaproves of women with children under the age of 18 to work for income outside the home. He also advocates spanking. (Just what we need in today's society - a little more violence)

Now that my wife and I are expecting our first child I'm waiting for the day when someone offers us one of Dobson's books so that I can kindly tell them that Dobson isn't welcome in our home.