The Weekly Post

Hard to pick this week. I wanted something non-political, but everybody was blogging politics because of the election. So we get this post about Ted Haggard, from Steve Benen's very excellent Carpetbagger Report.

When we last left evangelical leader Ted Haggard, he was admitting to have bought (but not used) methamphetamines, but continued to deny having an affair with a gay prostitute. There was, shall we say, some lingering doubts about Haggard's evolving defense.

Late yesterday afternoon, Haggard's New Life Church, after an oversight investigation conducted by four pastors from other churches, found that he had "committed sexually immoral conduct" and fired him. Reportedly, Haggard began calling close friends last night, admitting that he'd been involved in sexual transgressions.

The church released a statement explaining that Haggard would offer an "explanation" at this morning's services. Apparently, the broken man has finally stopped lying.

"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's a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I have been warring with it all of my adult life."

There's more. Read it online, or see a slightly shorter version on the letters to the editor page of this week's Seven Days.