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Originally Posted by ironman
[URL="Link"]I remember that some time ago, someone posted about a guy who was going to make public that a prominent man was gay if he didn't come out in some time frame. The motivation for such thing: that this "in the closet man", was publicly opposing to gay marriage and condemning gay relationships.
Now we all know who this guy was, Ted Haggard, one of the 25 most influential Evangelicals in the US and with more power in Washington.
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Maybe you're talking about a different post, but the most recent one we had on the subject turned out to involve a politician by the name of Craig.
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showpost.php?p=2138733&postcount=40
As to the subject... yeah, this is a fairly disgusting attempt to shift some of the responsibility that belongs entirely to Haggard. "She wasn't responsible for the adultery... but she was responsible for helping him avoid the adultery." What puzzles me is why it's another pastor that's attempting it. Is he trying to reduce the bad PR of the hypocrisy? Trying to avoid the loss of too many fence-sitters who are moved by hypocrisy arguments?
If that's it, well, not only are his tactics disgusting, they just plain suck. He would've been much better off going with something like, "even religious leaders are imperfect, sometimes heartbreakingly so. But that doesn't lessen the importance or truth of the standards that they failed to meet. We should learn what we can from his mistakes and use what we learn to live better lives, rather than pretending that those failings invalidate the Christian way of life." You know, something that doesn't make the wife partly responsible for the husband staying faithful. If you want a divorce, get it. Don't be deceitful about it.