Ted and Jesus

I find it interesting that of course, the blame is being put at the foot of the Democrats , trying for a last minute attack on the neo-christian right. Are you serious? Yes, everybody falls. Everyone makes mistakes, but not everyone puts themselves out there, in the spotlight that Mr Haggard seemed to CRAVE telling people what they shouldn't do, and of course, the whole time they are right out there doing it. Here is man, who puts himself above others, for the sole purpose of "having power" . As a christian, I know I am not perfect, nor do I expect others to be. Jesus said we will never be able to match his perfection. And we won't. BUT , when will the churches who spend so much time, energy and money to "play " in the game of politics, understand that politics is not their primary purpose? The purpose of a church is to with other christians in the joy of jesus as our savior. Not to get elected , or elect people of power. Jesus had little tolerance of poltics or people in power. Why should he? He was power. Instead, he spent time with those who needed him and had the faith in him. Not people pushing their agenda, or quest for power. The message of Jesus was to come to him by ones own choice, not by bombs, wars, bullets or people who could force him on others. I am a christian by my faith in Jesus,not by force. When will today's church understand that? These days, in alot of churches, not all, if a person were to walk into a church, dirty, smelling, hungry, drunk, sick, what would the reaction be? How many people would run up to this person to offer real comfort? Not many, sadly. Yet, these were the people who jesus chose to be with, and comfort. Why have today's churches forgotten this? Instead, it is now to force a congregations views of their jesus on others by laws. Or who gets appointed a judge, or massive campaings to force their views on others. This is NOT the message of Jesus !!!! I would hope that you that think this was some conspiracy, would now admit the truth. It was his own choice to be in this postion. Be it demons in his head, giving into the temptation of power, or some other factor, the fact remains he made a wrong choice. Jesus called them hypocrits, which in latin means and actor.
I find it odd that HE himself didn't stand on the pulpit, and admit to his flock his mistakes. That is the first step to forgivness, and as a christian, I do indeed have in my heart to forgive. BUT , he didn't, or they wouldn't let him, as they were more concerned with how this would affect the church, or their political base, which is EXACTLY the problem that creates this stuff. The CHURCH should appolgize, and allow Mr Haggard to appoligize to all the people he hurt with his retoric. Only then, can true forgiveness happen. I would hope that the churches who are more interested in the worship of God, and his son Jesus Christ, stop their force of faith, and spend more time practicing it.
As for me, I will pray for Mr Haggart and his family, and hope that he can return to his love of Christ, with a true heart, no matter if he is gay or not !

Are David and everyone here who commented really this delusional? The ONLY thing Ted is sorry about is getting caught. There is nothing more evil than a person doing evil things, yet they portray themselves as good and representatives of God. For those of you who think Ted is strong and brave for taking responsibility- again it's only because he was caught. True character would have been defined as him having come forth long before his accuser did.