Ted Haggard and his sex scandal

After three years of being found in a sex scandal by the church he founded New Life Church, Ted Haggard ( a evangelical) announced that he will be holding weekly prayer meeting in his home. Three years ago he was involved using drugs and in a sex scandal with a male prostitute (NY Times)- he resigned from the church after the prostitute outed that Haggard had been paying him for sex for more then three years. One hundred and fifty people actually attended the first weekly prayer meeting and Haggard stated that this made him very happy.

The pastor has told a television station that "he still has homosexual thoughts" and that he will "have a thought.. but... never have a temptation" (NY Times). Haggard has also confessed to "sexual immorality".

I honestly do not care if a pastor has homosexual thoughts or not- I do not care if he is homosexual or not. I just felt bad that Haggard had to hide it and that he was caught in a sex scandal. I believe that people should be free with who they are, but of course our society does not allow that and further more religions. What I do find wrong about this sex scandal is that Haggard has taught that homosexuality is wrong and punishable by God, when he himself has homosexual thoughts- in other words he is a hypocrite. Perhaps he was in denial with his homosexuality and hopefully one day this will change. Maybe one day people can be open about their sexuality, no matter what religion he or she is.