Haggard Part Deux Runs to the ACLU

Rev. Lonnie Latham, a notoriously anti-gay Southern Baptist Convention heavyweight who resigned his post for engaging in "offering to engage in an act of lewdness" (read: seeking meat whistle lessons from an undercover cop posing as a male prostitute), has now asserted his right to solicit sex from that cop. And he's enlisted the anti-Christian commie pinkos at the ACLU to help him. I know this doesn't have anything to do with the campaign but admit you're glad I posted it.

Comments (25)

1. well, at least he did not admit to mule sex...

   Posted by ibbleblibble at 02/23/2007 @ 9:21pm

2. maybe there are actually more gay con/pubs than lib/dems...nah...

   Posted by ibbleblibble at 02/23/2007 @ 9:23pm

3. hey wait, blumanthal...this was just a sneaky way to place that "jesus didnt exist" ad, wasnt it? lol

   Posted by ibbleblibble at 02/23/2007 @ 9:41pm

4. oh - now its gone...guess not.

   Posted by ibbleblibble at 02/23/2007 @ 9:42pm

5. Could we find some anti-gay FEMALE ministers or lay-people among these Religious Righties....

   so we could atleast get some hot girl-on-incredibly-repressed-girl action?

   Posted by Mask at 02/23/2007 @ 9:48pm

6. Also....if all the Religious Right virulently anti-gay preachers are gay...

   would that mean that, say, a virulently "kill the bastards, quit holding Bush back...opposing more fruitless war is anti-American...Hell, nuke 'em! Jesus would!" minister would be...

   secretly a pacifist???

   (no names please....hehe)

   Posted by Mask at 02/23/2007 @ 10:12pm

7. C'mon, Max. Meat whistle lessons?!

   Whatever.

   Posted by Duncan Grant at 02/23/2007 @ 10:52pm

8. Posted by MASK 02/23/2007 @ 9:48pm |

   no kidding...

   Posted by ibbleblibble at 02/23/2007 @ 11:08pm

9. http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6114375&nav=menu36_3

   there's some hanky panky in my neighborhood

   Posted by ibbleblibble at 02/23/2007 @ 11:11pm

10. Like Rio, I note that this is an old story. I don't know him, didn't know of him. But I do pray that he has taken time to get his life in order, has repented of his sin and is engaged in fully restoring his relationship with Christ.

    Posted by LVLIBERTY1 02/23/2007 @ 10:53pm

    he sure seems to have an interesting take on that relationaship

    Posted by Will C. at 02/23/2007 @ 11:11pm

11. Like Rio, I note that this is an old story. I don't know him, didn't know of him. But I do pray that he has taken time to get his life in order, has repented of his sin and is engaged in fully restoring his relationship with Christ.

    Posted by LVLIBERTY1 02/23/2007 @ 10:53pm

    he sure seems to have an interesting take on that relationaship

    Posted by Will C. at 02/23/2007 @ 11:12pm

12. its the literalist christians that seem to have the most trouble with repressed sexuality...and priests...

    the laid back denominations seem less scandal plagued.

    Posted by ibbleblibble at 02/23/2007 @ 11:14pm

13. the laid back denominations seem less scandal plagued.

    Posted by IBBLEBLIBBLE 02/23/2007 @ 11:14pm

    hey a little wine, a little cheese, a few fresh loaves.

    we have ourselves a supper.

    yeah baby

    Posted by Will C. at 02/23/2007 @ 11:18pm

14. No Christian is ever completely shocked that someone who claims to love Christ falls down in sin. All are human and subject to human weakness and failings. It doesn't mean that all Christians will continue to sin after they are saved. Yet some do because they never truly are transformed and mature in their faith. Some because they give into temptations thinking no one will ever know. That is the worst kind because they cannot hid their sin from God and they add a spiritual arrogance to their fleshly sin.

    Like Rio, I note that this is an old story. I don't know him, didn't know of him. But I do pray that he has taken time to get his life in order, has repented of his sin and is engaged in fully restoring his relationship with Christ.

    Posted by LVLIBERTY1 02/23/2007 @ 10:53pm

    The sin that he's guilty of is hypocrisy and you're swimming in it yourself, so pipe down.

    Posted by fromredbird at 02/23/2007 @ 11:43pm

15. The Republican Party should have a caucus for members who not only vociferously advocate monogamy, sexual modesty, and heterosexuality but actually practice it.

    I'd be interested to see how big the caucus is.

    Posted by fromredbird at 02/23/2007 @ 11:47pm

16. The sin that he's guilty of is hypocrisy and you're swimming in it yourself, so pipe down.

    Posted by FROMREDBIRD 02/23/2007 @ 11:43pm

    remember. it's always OK when they do it

    Posted by Will C. at 02/23/2007 @ 11:50pm

17. I'd be interested to see how big the caucus is.

    Posted by FROMREDBIRD 02/23/2007 @ 11:47pm

    where do you think the slogan "army of one" came from?

    Posted by Will C. at 02/23/2007 @ 11:51pm

18. remember. it's always OK when they do it

    Posted by WILL C. 02/23/2007 @ 11:50pm

    Amen, brother!

    "A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness." Walter Bagehot

    Posted by COProgressive at 02/24/2007 @ 12:01am

19. Posted by RIO BRAVO 02/23/2007 @ 10:36pm

    Ever notice how guys like RIO (and LL) will say "it's just one bad apple"...when it's a Christian.

    But let a MUSLIM do something...and it's indictative of all of Islam!

    Posted by Mask at 02/24/2007 @ 07:39am

20. Rio Bravo-LvLiberty- Evangelicals aren't Christianity.They are a minority of Christians.The only people I know who get upset by the words and antics of evangelicals are conservative and mainstream Christians.They're afraid that they'll be lumped in with this group.Everybody I know on the left finds this stuff to be a cheap source of entertainment.You have to expect ridicule and criticism when you send people door to door to tell people they're going to hell if you don't believe as I believe or when Fallwell says things like gays caused 9/11 or when Robertson says anybody who doesn't want religion taught in science class rejects God and should expect flood,famine etc. Expect ridicule when you say you're pro war and pro life.Do a demographics check of where evangelicals live and cross reference that with divorce and domestic violence rates.Not a pretty picture.

    Posted by i'm nobody at 02/24/2007 @ 10:59am

21. this is a new story: though he was arrested in january, latham has just contracted the aclu to help him in his legal fight.

    Posted by Maxblumenthal at 02/24/2007 @ 10:59am

22. How Many More Of These Religious Whackos Are Going To Be Outed By Themselves?

    I know that Matthew 25 is devoted to the concept of caring for the weakest, most vulnerable, hungry, thirsty and the naked. What it did not cover was the added incentive for the Pulpit Brigade to go hit the streets in search of self-stimulation. The standard procedure, as I understand it, is to go to the resort in Tucson for four weeks, (avoiding press coverage), cure yourself of homosexual tendencies in three months, and get a payout of hush monies in an undisclosed amount before you vamoose out of town to avoid drying up your membership which provides the dollars you wanted to spend on whores, male or female, in the first place. Organised Religion Sucks has more meaning now.

    Posted by LyleNews at 02/24/2007 @ 11:07am

23. this is a new story: though he was arrested in january, latham has just contracted the aclu to help him in his legal fight.

    Posted by MAXBLUMENTHAL 02/24/2007 @ 10:59am

    Max

    Do you think latham got the idea to contract with the ACLU from comedian rush limbaugh?

    Posted by Will C. at 02/24/2007 @ 12:03pm

24. The arrest was old but there is a motion to dismiss pending. It was set to go to court in October, 2006 then delayed until the third week of January, 2007. A hearing and a non jury trial was scheduled for January 18th and then days before case was to be seen the prosecuter, just newly elected, asked for another delay "to evaluate the merits of continuing the case". The hearing was set to start on February 22, 2007. Pastor Latham's case is being handled by the ACLU's Gay Lesbian Project so it seems that he is not denying his homosexuality as Haggard continues to do. What ever the results of the court motions, the point to me is the degree of self hatred this man must have felt as he preached against the very thing that he was. I don't find the mess that this man has been going through to be funny but the "Christian faithful" that declare homosexuality to be a sin is a joke. I gave up on organized religion a long time ago and enjoy my Sunday mornings on horseback far better than I ever did in a church. I feel a whole lot closer to god too.

    Posted by Lyndoc at 02/24/2007 @ 4:22pm

25. Kaneh bosm!!!!!!!

    Posted by Garry at 02/25/2007 @ 12:07pm