Editor’s Note: The following is the second of a three-part article written by Eric Francis. It was originally published on Nov. 3, 2006, two years into Bush’s second term as president. Today, it’s part of the archives, accessible to Planet Waves Astrology News subscribers. –RA
Faster, Pastor
A few days later, the sex thing came to the surface of American life again, this time in the person of The Rev. Ted Haggard (Pastor Ted), who shepherds over a flock of 30 million American fundamentalist Christians. Haggard stepped down from his post Thursday after a male prostitute said that the minister had been paying him for sex for the past few years.
The prostitute, Mike Jones, 49, of Denver, told the Associated Press that he came forward after learning that Haggard was a hypocrite: Jones found out that the minister’s organization has been leading the fight against gay marriage, where the issue is currently up on the Colorado ballot.
“It made me angry that here’s someone preaching about gay marriage and going behind the scenes having gay sex,” Jones said, quoted in Associated Press article yesterday.