When I was looking at the morning paper last week, I read an article about Ted Haggard and the pronouncement that he was "completely heterosexual."  After reading it I commented to my wife, "This is not going to resonate with much of anyone.  The gay community are going to be offended, the agnostic community is not going to buy it, and the evangelical community (as a whole) are not going to believe one can be cured so quickly."

Well today in the Rocky Mt. News the columnist, Bill Johnson, has a couple of paragraphs that communicate those thoughts well.  They are as follows…

It has been a good, interesting week, hasn’t it?

It certainly was, I guess, for Ted Haggard, the disgraced former
senior pastor at New Life Church in Colorado Springs who, it turns out,
isn’t gay after all.

I laughed along with everyone else when the Rev. Tim Ralph, one
of four ministers who oversaw Haggard’s three-week "spiritual
restoration" program, proclaimed this week that the minister is
"completely heterosexual."

I laughed because I remember, too, how all this started – how a
former male prostitute, Mike Jones, did the disgracing late last year
by blabbing that Haggard had been paying him for sex and
methamphetamines for three years.

I’m sorry, but no straight man, no matter how much stress or
"incongruity" in his life – to borrow Haggard’s excuse – is seeking out
and using code names with Mike Jones for THREE years.

Ask me, the whole thing is really sad.

Not even Randy Thomas, vice president of the nation’s largest ex-gay group, Exodus International, is buying Haggard’s story now.

Reorienting a person’s sexuality, says Thomas, whose
organization is founded on the belief that it "is possible to reorient
a person’s same-sex attraction through Jesus Christ," says such a thing
"takes months, if not years."

Haggard built himself into something he can never be and now
clearly thinks three weeks’ worth of contemplation has made him what he
likely never was.

Think of his family. Think of his former congregation. Each
does, and will continue to, love him dearly, whoever he is or believes
he has turned out to be.

The sadness is, he probably doesn’t realize this.

Source: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/news_columnists/article/0,1299,DRMN_86_5342318,00.html