Damn! The Kerry gaffe that occupied the TV news for two days is completely vaporized. Now we have the real deal: SEX! And even better, HOMO sexual sex, and even better, by a fabulously famous Christian moralist who has warned his flock of millions, for years, about the evil evil homosexual agenda.

Ted Haggard, one of the 25 most influential evangelicals in the US, according to Time Magazine, a participant in weekly conference calls to the White House, a rip-roaring anti-gay preacher has been caught with his pants down. Literally. He’s been accused of having a three year, monthly, $200 a pop (so to speak) business arrangement with a male prostitute. Yesterday he resigned as President of the National Association of Evangelicals.

Today, the board of his New Life Church in Colorado Springs, has arranged for Haggard to step aside from his pastorship there with the comment that there “had been some admission of guilt.”

Fabulous. CNN

Update: YouTube clip of Good Morning America with Haggard’s voice (claimed) asking for meth.

[It’s interesting to watch Haggard in the TV clips close his eyes as he says “I’ve been faithful to my wife.”]

Haggard had been a big promoter of Colorado’s up-coming No Gay Marriage vote to amend the Colorado constitution. His trystee, Mike Jones, had not known who his John was — knowing him only as “Art” –until Haggard’s face began gracing TV ads in favor of the amendment. Jones, less hypocritical than Haggard, wrestled with his conscience and his conscience won: Jones went public.

I can see why Haggard wants to have his cake and eat it too (so to speak.) Banning gay marriage, demonizing gays, makes his own transgressive desires even more dangerous and therefore more erotic. I’m not sure I want to work out all the psycho-sexual implications here, or hear any more details from Mr. Jones, but power and submission along with the hidden and forbidden are bound to be part of the eternal mystery of sex being played out in one more tawdry motel room…