Several months ago, I read a really fucked up article in Harper’s (an excellent magazine, by the way. Totally worth the dead trees) about the New Life Church and it’s leader, Pastor Ted Haggard. The article, which describes the rise, habits and history and controversy of the church as well as the modern evangelical movement in America blew my mind. I’d never really considered or been aware of the reality of a modern, Neo-Christian fascist movement. The people seemed brainless, their leaders seemed like oily thugs and the whole thing really disturbed me. Scary, bad people.

This morning, I read in the news that Pastor Ted was involved in a very lurid scandal involving the purchase and probable use of methamphetamine coupled with paid encounters over the last three years with a gay prostitute.

It’s like xmas in November. Seriously, somebody toss some confetti. Hail Satan!

Pastor Ted’s resigned from New Life Church and the Presidency of the NAE (over 30 million served!) as well making some admissions to buying meth but not using it and to hanging out with a male prostitute, but only getting a massage. Yeah… a massage—THAT’S the ticket!

Here’s a fun interview where he denies everything and tries to come across like such a good Christian. After that, enjoy some analysis of the voicemails of him calling the prostitute to order up some meth.

It really can’t get much sweeter than when a shit-filled, hate-bag like Pastor Ted gets outed as the hypocritical, meth-toking, reach-around-guy he is. The media is going to burn him alive. I for one, would like to melt s’mores off the flames.

The world is full of evil people, horrible things and bad endings. It’s really nice to know that every once in a while the planet rights itself and some good ol’ karmic justice is doled out. Life is very, very good.