Re: your second paragraph. got a link to that Air Force Academy study. or at least some other references to it?

You are way out of line and probably in need of counseling. False reporting of sexual assaults are the least reported of all false crimes.
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A recent study by the Air Force Academy is wildly wrong and biased. The Air Force Inspector General and Judge Advocates office both roundly condemned the methodology and conclusions.

FBI statistics have been routinely misquoted and misinterpreted to suit the needs of certain people.

Claiming most sexual assault allegations are false is very insulting to the women, children, and men who have been assaulted. Especially when that assertion is so totally off the target.

But most telling of all, is that there wasn’t any sexual assault claimed here. The accuser admitted outright that he was telling his story for political purposes, he was a homosexual, he was a prostitute, he had sold Haggard meth, and the sex was consensual.

Maybe Dvorak is just another “journalist” to you, but then what are you, just another “runner”? John Dvorak didn’t post this topic, one of the editors here at DU did. Dvorak hasn’t even commented on this subject (other then on another Haggard topic where I was told to take my train of thought to a different forum).

Everyone else – assuming Dr. Dobson knew only that he had been accused, and spoke before he heard of evidence supporting the accusation (or before the evidence had been independantly validated) – if that was the case (tight timelines like this are so hard to sort out), then he would be justified – without evidence, allegations have no weight, and the media blowing them out of preportion turns unproven allegations into a smear campaign

–and yes, I know the allegations have been proven, I am not defending Haggard, and I expect Dr. Dobson is now quite dissapointed

— although, an argument can be made for giving Haggard some space to deal with his disgrace privately

Yes, people who do gravely wrong things should be held accountable to the laws of the land, regardless of whether they are men of faith or not. Yet to go completely bonkers and say that “this shouldn’t be happening; he’s a man of God!” is going overboard at the least. While we do devote our lives to our faith and do our best to live lives that are examples of the standards set by Christ and even the old Law of Moses, we are humans. We are fallible. We are only perceived to fall hard because of the pedestal that people place ministers on. We are just as subject to temptation as every other human. Yet if we fall, it is not the end of the world for us and is no cause for people to jump all over us. We believe that God’s grace came to us through Christ Jesus and that through that grace, we can return stronger than before. We will hold ourselves accountable as the laws of the land require, but it is God who determines if we are truly repentant. It is God who sanctifies us for service.

Is that why his church fired him, because he is a right-wing fundamentalist preacher?

(And when are people going to learn how to read a blog?)

Stossel did a hack job on global warming. He purposely ignored recognized experts in favor of industry bought flunkies. Both Dobson and Stossel are claiming the same thing; if we all ignore the bad stuff, it will go away.

Let’s face it folks, these religious enterprises are the biggest scam in modern history. Big money, big voting block, big influence, big power. The Dobson’s of the world don’t want the media or anybody else to mess with this – OR ELSE.

If you want to go after another scam, go after groups like the Psychic Readers Network!

Media 1, Dobson 0, Jesus sobbing.

We evangelicals don’t have a pope but Ted Haggard was the PRESIDENT of our biggest and oldest group ! This should be stunning but we are all so jaded to this hypocritical crap now.

(I’m an evangelical, BTW, and am part of this group.)

For we evangelicals, Haggard is a much more significant person than, let’s say Jimmy Swaggard, who got MONTHS of bad press for his hypocrisy.

It’s hard to make an analogy of what this is like… something like if it was revealed that Jesse Jackson secretly owned black slaves or if Strom Thurmond had a secret black lover. (oh, that’s been done, already.)