It’s just really sad and pathetic that an entirely understandable human urge like this should be such a source of shame in this man’s life. What’s really sad is that the people he preaches to will learn absolutely nothing from this experience.

I’ll bet the massage was from a naked man and it went on from there…apparently once a month for 3 years. Others have noted that crystal meth is sometimes used to enhance the experience for a bottom. Now, why did he buy the meth again? And again? And..?

And, he’s probably defining sex as something that happens between men and women. Whereas men and men have – a massage.

Seriously, though, you don’t leave messages for a prostitute under an assumed name for a legal, hotel-recommended massage. And you don’t buy meth for three years just to look at it, be tempted, and not touch the stuff.
Then again, you also don’t resign if it’s untrue.

As an aside, “Soldiers of God” is an incredible piece of investigative ethnography. I love Sharlet’s work.

“I was buying it for me, but I never used it. I was tempted. …

“He told me about it. I went there for a massage.”

I love it. “I just went there for a happy ending, and then I bought some meth from him, and then on the way home I changed my mind and threw it away… HONEST!”

Yeesh.

Haggard told CNN affiliate KUSA-TV on Friday that he received Jones’ name as “a referral” from a hotel where he was staying in Denver.

He did not name the hotel. “I did call him,” Haggard said. “I called him to buy some meth, but I threw it away.”

Haggard spoke to the Denver TV station from inside a car, with his wife, Gayle, in the passenger seat.

“I was buying it for me, but I never used it. I was tempted. …

“He told me about it. I went there for a massage.”

Asked whether Haggard’s admission of knowing him was a vindication, Jones replied, “Thank you. Exactly.”

Haggard’s not a very good liar. As I see it, he has basically admitted to using meth. Does anyone believe that someone who has never used meth would call up a drug dealer, buy some meth, and be “tempted” to use it? Does someone who is not a drug user just think one day: “You know, I’d like to try heroin” and then know how to go about contacting someone to buy some? Yeah, right.

Also, is Haggard aware that “getting a massage” is commonly known to be a euphemism for visiting a prostitute? Dude, you’re caught. You might as well start telling the truth.

the sad part is that our society forgives and forgets so easily, without thinking why.

srl, you can see the artwork mentioned in the link below…some of it is quite homoerotic:

And how!

http://www.thestranger.com/blog/files/2006/11/homoart.1.php