Sexuality: Coming Back To This

One year and three months ago, I wrote this:

You figure out why [ Jesse Lee Peterson ] has differing approaches. In the first, a female pastor [ Juanita Bynum ] is having trouble with her husband [ Bishop Meeks ], also a pastor, and JLP states both of them are not saved. In the second case, a pastor [ Ted Haggard ] is caught having an affair with another MAN and JLP makes a case to keep him as head of a church?

Today, I came across an article on Ted Haggard. It seems he is now free to speak about what happened.

"I think sexuality is confusing and complex," Haggard said. "I am totally completely satisfied with the relationship with my wife now, but I went through a wandering in the wilderness time, and I just thank God I'm on the other side of that."

Asked whether he could define his sexual identity, Haggard said: "The stereotypical boxes don't work for me. My story's got some gray areas in it. And, of course, I'm sad about that but it's the reality."

At the time the film was shot in 2007, Haggard described still occasionally struggling with same-sex attraction. Asked Friday whether those attractions remain, Haggard did not say definitively but said he was "not anywhere near" where he was at that time.

I wonder if JLP will write anything about that, or about this:

Haggard lashes out at "the church" in the documentary, which was produced by Alexandra Pelosi, daughter of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. He said "the church has said go to hell" and "the church chose not to forgive me."

Over a 14-month period ending Dec. 31, 2007, New Life Church paid the Haggard family $309,020 in salary and benefits, according to a church document obtained by The Associated Press.

The payout included $152,360 in salary for Ted Haggard, $62,177 in salary for his wife, Gayle, $26,426 for counseling, $11,168 for legal fees and $26,000 to help care for the couple's special-needs son, who is in his early 20s.

Haggard on Friday said his family is grateful for the severance, but he was angry for being forced to leave Colorado Springs as one condition.

After all, in this opinion piece, Jesse Lee Peterson wrote:

And if Juanita were truly a woman of God, she would not use her marital problems for personal gain – or use the media to destroy her husband.

So, I wonder what he will write, if anything.