Homosexual Attachments: Oprah vs. Haggard

I stopped watching Oprah when she had that snarky episode featuring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal and their making "Brokeback Mountain". After that, I thought "with friends like her, who needs enemies?". Or as Grandma used to say, "She's pure-dee-pitiful!"

He can't be gay --Oprah gave him an hour long hand-job (with a bit of light spanking to spice things up) in front from a room full of women. Nothing queer about that, in any sense of the word.

I liked the article. I'm not sure if this is covered in Oprah's interview, since I didn't watch it, but a 20-year-old man from Colorado Springs has come forward recently and said he also had a sexual relationship with Ted Haggard. This was when Haggard was still in charge of his church. Ted's church basically paid this young man hush money to keep quiet about it, even giving him money for college and to move out-of-state. This was in the news recently. So Mr. Haggard's dalliance with the male prostitute was not his only "gay fling". I'm sure before it's all said and done that a lot more guys will come forward that have been involved with Ted Haggard.

If Ted Haggard was my best friend I would say this to him: "Ted, I'm so sorry for the pain and torment you have been in all your life. I am especially sorry for your family, whom you (non-maliciously), swept into this personal torment. I accept that you ascribe to a set of beliefs that do not allow you the God given freedom to be who you were born to be. I admire you for denying yourself, (your true self), so that you can stay married to your wife who made vows to you before God without knowing the full truth about who you really were. I admire you for putting your family before yourself. However, these talk show appearances are a cry for help and they are sad and embarrassing to watch. And worst of all they convey the message that being gay is something to battle against. It's not. It's just that way for YOU. At the risk of creating more tormented little Ted Haggard's, perhaps you should just go away and suffer in silence. It's the truly decent thing to do.

Can you say "Jim and Tammy Part 2"? To bad Tammy Faye Baker is not still around, she could have taught Ted a few things about honesty. What we needed here was Tom Leykis tag teaming with Oprah. I don’t care about who side of the fence Ted thinks he’s really on. He could be straddling both sides, but to say it’s a choice? As Tom Leykis would say “What are you thinking about when your doing the deed”? Are you thinking about a man or a woman? Because as much as your trying to think of your wife, if your thinking about that hunk of man down the street you’re not straight by any definition. But I do have to give a High-Five to Oprah for calling Ted’s wife on “but it’s a Choice” B.S.. Thanks DW

I can't stand Oprah. She is the only one except God who knows everything. I will be so glad when she gives up TV and her ad Gail retire to their island.

HA-Larious!!!! Dave White is awesome.. I had to keep re-reading parts of this story because I was laughing too hard.. Yes, PLEASE, can Dave White do the MST3K voiceover on EVERY Oprah show?? Love it!!

I'm not sure I believe anything he says but it sounds like many are implying that a gay attraction makes you totally gay even though you are also attracted to the opposite sex as well. like one drop of black blood supposedly makes you black .He is posssibly a real bisexual and needs to control his gay attractions to keep his marriage intact just as one does when attracted to anyone outside ones marriage of either sex Can he be really naturally attracted to women or is it a cover up of his gayness as so many closeted gay men have done in the past . these are all questions that pop into my mind while he talks His biggest sin was preaching against being gay while feeling these attractions and I'm not sure whether he really has changed his views of gay people

I wish I could watch the show with Dave White doing his MST3K commenting verbally. Bodacious, witty verbiage when confronted with camp. It's hilarious and sickly sad at the same time.

ANYONE with a religious belief is insane. NOT IN THEIR RIGHT MIND. Should we expect ANY rationality for people who believe in fairy-tales and superstitious idiocy? NO! Christians are NOT loving, NOT forgiving, NOT practicing what their fictional "savior" taught - and are the biggest hypocrites in the world. How any Gay person would want to believe in this idiocy is beyond me. I pity you poor bastards - having to invent such elaborate delusions just because you're afraid of dying. How pathetic.