Haggard: "A tragic embodiment of the still-raging war between sexuality and religion"

[cynatnite]

"The Trials of Ted Haggard" is a strange, disturbing, imperfect but in the end heartbreaking little film that may wind up being the most powerful indictment of homophobia since "Brokeback Mountain." It's not so much a documentary as it is a series of encounters with a man struggling to hold on to two mutually destructive identities: an evangelical who is not exclusively heterosexual. That he cannot let go of the latter and will not let go of the former makes him a tragic embodiment of the still-raging war between sexuality and religion.

Almost accidentally, "The Trials of Ted Haggard" offers a revealing sideways look at the nature of deception, forgiveness, judgment and redemption. On both sides of the camera.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/reviews/tv/la-et-haggard29-2009jan29,0,7474715.story

[baldguy]

1. A religiously insane drug addict pervert.

[stopbush]

2. The solution is so simple - remove the fear and paranoia that grow out of

the ancient SUPERSTITIONS that are the basis of the world's religions, and live your life as the gay or bi man you are.

How many lives continue to be ruined by the myth-based intolerance and self-loathing that religion demands? It's sad and sick.

[AnnieBW]

3. Sexuality and Fundamentalist Christianity, that is

Many religions, in fact many Christian denominations, lovingly accept gay people.