I, however, feel more like laughing my ass off. But then, as a Witch, I always do find it amusing when witch-hunters start eating their own.
An executive staff member at New Life Church in Colorado Springs has resigned after admitting to sexual misconduct and other mistakes – the result of an examination of the staff’s moral makeup after the ouster of senior pastor Ted Haggard, a church official said Sunday.
Christopher Beard, who headed a ministry that trained young adults in leadership skills, stepped down Friday after admitting to “a series of decisions displaying poor judgment, including one incident of sexual misconduct several years ago,” said Rob Brendle, an associate pastor at the 14,000- member church.
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Beard, a New Life employee for nine years, was not married at the time of the incident but is now, Brendle said. Beard could not be reached for comment Sunday.
After Haggard’s fall in a drugs-and-gay- sex scandal last month, the senior leadership of New Life asked its outside board of overseers to take a closer look at the “spiritual character” of its 200-member staff as a precaution. Brendle said Beard’s disclosures came during a meeting with the board, which is made up of four pastors from other congregations.
Brendle said Beard’s resignation was voluntary and is another step toward making sure the “disordered moral life” demonstrated in Haggard’s fall is “excised from the church.”
I wonder where this will end. I mean, an awful lot of things can fall under the heading of “sexual immorality”. The actual biblical definition, however, is remarkably narrow.
It will be interesting to see how all this shakes out, what the church considers to be immoral, and just how many “immoral” people the dragnet will catch before the whole cult implodes under the weight of its own, er, “sin”.
My educated guess, however, is that the real sins–the nonsexual kind–will be left untouched.
