Do as I say...

The NY Times has an interesting story on how the moral majority's morallity police foisted Rev Ted Haggard on his own petard here.

Four ministers were assembled to decide the fate of Rev. Ted Haggard dismissed the Rev. Ted Haggard, the pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, after he was accused of sexual misconduct.

Mr. Haggard created outside oversight for his independent church and when it came time to decide whether the allegations by a male prostitute that Mr. Haggard, one of the nation’s most prominent evangelical ministers, had engaged in a three-year affair with him and of using drugs, Haggard confessed to his handpicked board of overseers that he had engaged in sexual immorality.

What actually did Haggard in was neither the sodomy or the drug use, but an interview Haggard had given to TV crews as he pulled out of his driveway where he denied having sex with the male prostitute, and said he had bought methamphetamine but never used it.

I used to refer glibly to the moral majority as neither. This morning I am pleased that at least the board of overseers had the cajones to do the right thing and take out this hypocrite - for lying...