Dobson to Aid in Counseling Haggard

[cboy4]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Focus on the Family founder James Dobson will be one of the people overseeing counseling for the Rev. Ted Haggard, the evangelical pastor who was fired amid allegations of gay sex and drug use, a senior official of Dobson's organization said Monday.

The counseling process, called restoration, could take years, said H.B. London, vice president for church and clergy at Focus on the Family, a Colorado Springs-based ministry.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/06/AR2006110600998.html

:rofl:

Restoration!

Oh hallelujah, pah-raise Jesus.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

1. Restoration?

I thought that's what the gays were doing to Asbury Park, NJ.

:rofl:

[lapfog_1]

2. I think they are going to beat the gay out of him. n/t

[LeftCoast]

3. Hasn't that man been tortured enough?

:rofl:

[cboy4]

4. BWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Apparently not! :spray:

[LeftCoast]

5. Seriously though, Haggard is swimming in the KoolAid

"Those men will perform a thorough analysis of my mental, spiritual, emotional and physical life. They will guide me through a program with the goal of healing and restoration for my life, my marriage and my family," Haggard wrote.

Scare-eee!

[Sapphocrat]

6. Sounds like Scientology "clearing"!

:scared:

[LeftCoast]

7. Standard procedure for any cult programming

I wonder how miserable he'll make himself before he finally tells these fuckers to go screw themselves?

[cboy4]

8. I predict by day 3 of the "restoration," he'll be having sex in the

church parking lot with one of his "instructors." :eyes:


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[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

10. Yeah, there's an ex-gay support group fairly close to me.

I bet it would be a good place to meet chicks.

[cboy4]

11. That's all you gays think about is sex! And recruiting children!!!

;)

[LeftCoast]

12. Hmm...if you like the guilt-ridden type I suppose

You strike me as the type of person who wouldn't put up with that shit.

:rofl:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

13. Oh I so don't deal with that shit.

They'd have to be just hookups.

Honestly, though I've always been tempted to go to a meeting just to see what the hell they talk about though.

[cboy4]

17. I'll go with you....I'm curious too!

Maybe we can be cured! :puke:

[Vorta]

18. I think the Mormons play baseball as part of the 'therapy' at Evergreen eom

[Sapphocrat]

15. Or with John Paulk. n/t

[cboy4]

16. Oh he's not gay!!

:rofl: Yea, right!

[Vorta]

19. Yeah, he was just at Mr P's to use their famously nice (not) bathroom. nt

[neoblues]

9. All this rehabilitation therapy... for the standard donation of...

$1.4 Million dollars per year (a made-up number); a small price to pay to have one's lucrative evangelical career restored to 'better than new'. No doubt, no effort will be spared; family comes first. (wink)

Given the recent spate of evangelical sex scandals, though, one wonders just what "family comes first" actually means to these people. Whatever it is, apparenly, they don't mind keeping it "all in the family"... I suppose that's just evidence they really like being "in the family way".

Somehow, it seems to me, the evangelism business is sort of incestuous and rather nepotistic. Aside from the apparent seediness (one small example: "send in your donation... you're 78 years old, have serious health problems, have no income and only have $10 left in the bank, no problem, send it in now--praise the L_rd, and don't worry, G_d will provide for and reward you..."), has anyone taken a good look at the "Televangelists", both men and women? Just an opinion, but they seem to be physical proof of inbreeding--and they're the ones they actually let on TV; imagine the ones not appealing enough to be on TV...

[TechBear_Seattle]

21. I was just going to say

It is a scam, because it "could take years" and, of course, each "counselling session" costs a lot of money. It sounds a lot like Scientology, doesn't it?

[NMMNG]

14. Dobson should be a lot of help

What's he going to do, invite Haggard into the shower for a session of "let's see whose wang is bigger"? :rofl:

[Vorta]

20. Then he's going to get Whitney to help him stop using drugs. nt