Hypocrite Haggard Still Wants to Pray Away the Gay!

Despite Oprah pressing Haggard with delightfully real and challenging questions on 1/28/09 (video clip below), Haggard remains perplexing and inconsistent. He seems relieved and grateful that Mike Jones outed him in 2006 to "be free and tell the truth," but he still won't get out of the closet. He wants to keep the light on inside the closet (and admit these "feelings"), but no one is hom(o)! He said he "tried to deal with it in spiritual circles, but it didn't work out." Now he admits to attractions to males since childhood that continue today, but still holds onto the futile wish that if he seeks God, God will heal him and improve his life... allowing him to live up to his "heterosexual monogomous ideal." He says he's "heterosexual with issues." He got the issues part right. Unfortunately, his public actions only serve to reinforce religious-based misunderstandings about homosexuality and imply that it's unnatural or bad. Watch this:



More questions remain:
1) What role did his wife Gayle plan in denying who Haggard is, and encouraging him to suppress this part of himself? Is she his hero or his foe?
2) Are the Haggards just suppressing the truth further to uphold the Bible?
3) Why did the New Life church he founded lift all their restrictions on him? Was there a condition that he spin his homosexuality as a dark, sinful thing that he will still try to battle, but this time openly?
4) Is he using the sexual abuse he got as a child as an excuse for "compulsive" indulgences in sexual immorality?
5) Can someone please educate this man? Oprah tried, saying "Denying part of your self is wrong."

It seems this story will go on for years until Haggard can come to peace with who he is and reconcile this with his faith.