More Gay-pocrisy

And from Ted Haggard's state no less...

Summit Daily News (AP): Pastor of 2,100-member church resigns, admits relations with men

The founding pastor of the 2,100-member Grace Chapel has resigned after he said he had sexual relations with other men.

Paul Barnes, who led the church for 28 years, told his congregation Sunday in a videotaped message that church leaders allowed The Denver Post to view.

He and his wife have two adult daughters...

...“I have struggled with homosexuality since I was a 5-year-old boy,” Barnes, 54, said in the videotaped message. “... I can’t tell you the number of nights I have cried myself to sleep, begging God to take this away.”

He described struggling with what he believes is the biblical teaching that homosexuality is an abomination...

How many respected and otherwise sincere Christian conservative leaders have to come out of the closet (or rather, get pushed out forcefully through circumstances outside their choosing) before people realize this is natural? How many children and/or adults like Pastor Barnes have to cry themselves to sleep because their church teaches them that God made them 'wrong'? How much hypocrisy must be exposed before politicians (Mitt Romney, I'm looking at you) stop stoking this for their short-term personal gain?

The answer to both questions? A lot more, appparently.