I am so sorry for the circumstances that have caused shame and embarrassment for all of you….The fact is I am guilty of sexual immorality, and I take responsibility for the entire problem. I am a deceiver and a liar. There is a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I’ve been warring against it all of my adult life….The accusations that have been leveled against me are not all true, but enough of them are true that I have been appropriately and lovingly removed from ministry.
— Ted Haggard, letter to New Life Church
If Ted stopped thinking about homosexuality as sexual immorality, he’d be a lot better off. He’s only a ‘deceiver and a liar’ because his job was to rebuke anyone outside the narrow views he preaches. He is a victim of his own movement. Bravo, Ted.