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[Jones' "favourite outed bigot"] That accolade goes to disgraced evangelical Ted Haggard, once a familiar fixture in America’s fundamentalist ranter… - Owen Jones
" "[Jones' "favourite outed bigot"] That accolade goes to disgraced evangelical Ted Haggard, once a familiar fixture in America’s fundamentalist ranters' circuit: a highly well-paid gig, incidentally (it’s easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the gates of Heaven, but the Lord will always make the odd exception). Haggard was a leading backer of a Colorado amendment to ban same-sex marriage in 2006. You can see why that might have wound up Mike Jones, the male sex worker he'd been having sex with on a monthly basis for three years, who retaliated by outing one of Time magazine’s top 25 US evangelical preachers. If you’re going to get a bit sloppy with your interpretation of the scriptures, you might as well go the whole hog, which probably explains why Haggard added taking crystal meth to getting jiggy with a member of the same sex.
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Owen Peter Jones (born 8 August 1984) is a British newspaper columnist, commentator and political activist. He became a regular columnist for The Guardian in March 2014, after a period with The Independent.
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