All the secrets are finally out: Evangelical leader Ted Haggard has come clean he’s guilty of homosexual immorality. Let’s get over it.
But Andrew Sullivan can’t stop giving me absurd statements to make fun of, so here’s one. “What’s interesting to me is that having adulterous gay sex is apparently, in Haggard’s mind, a worse sin than buying crystal meth. He copped to the meth before the sex.”
How about: Yes. Adultery — gay or straight – is worse than drug use. Adultery violates a promise you made to another person, where drug use just hurts yourself to some degree or another. How is that interesting? Sullivan proceeds to conclude that “drugs-worse-than sex may be a story that works in the mainstream; but among some Christianists, drug abuse is nowhere near as bad as being gay.”
I’m not sure who in the “mainstream” would rather find out their significant other cheated than did drugs, but I’ll be on the lookout. And as far as Christianity goes, there are passages in the Bible that warn against homosexuality but few if any that demand complete abstinence from alcohol and drug use. I’m no Christian, much less a Biblical literalist, but if you were one homosexuality would indeed be worse than meth. It’s not the far-out crazy idea Sullivan makes it out to be.
One argument Sullivan accurately blasts, though, is one blaming Haggard’s wife for letting herself go and not being sexually available enough. It’s possibly true (it makes sense) that religious figures’ wives are less likely to sex it up to fend off other women, but most people would cheat with, you know, a female.
And of course, I pointed out earlier that instead of showing sympathy for a fellow gay, Sullivan piled on and made some ridiculous point about “the closet” being the problem.
Robert VerBruggen blogs at http://robertsrationale.blogspot.com.
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