Evangelical caught with his pants down?

An explosive story out of Colorado pits gay former prostitute Mike Jones against evangelical pastor Ted Haggard. Jones has come forward accusing Haggard of hiring him for sex over the course of a couple years and attempting to buy drugs from Jones. Jones said he has come forward because of Haggard's support for a Colorado consitutional ban of same-sex marriage.

Haggard has resigned his post as president of the National Association of Evangelicals, and he has temporarily stepped down as the head of his own church. His temporary replacement at the church claims that Haggard has admitted to some of what Jones says.

But in a strange twist, Jones has actually failed a lie-detector test regarding his allegations about Haggard. It's a pretty wild story (and I bet you don't here much about the lie-detector test from the Big Three). And if it's true, I'm glad it's coming out.

I have thought for a long time that many of these closet-cases who oppose same-sex marriage do so because they don't want gay relationships codified because then it will put them in a strange predicament. Gay marriage will somehow turn the gay sex they like to engage in from something people do "on the side" to something that is right and just and acknowledged by the government and society. I imagine some of these guys don't consider gay sex as cheating on their wives, because it's not really sex - it's just some strange act.

I don't buy that line of thinking, but I have thought for a while that might be where some of it comes from. Hopefully, more on this will come out.