Sunday, November 05, 2006

Blaming the victim

Of course, the real victim of the Haggard scandal is Mrs. Haggard, whose entire emotional life has just been destroyed, possibly beyond repair. So it is almost beyond comprehension that Pastor Mark Driscoll comments on the Haggard scandal by saying, "It is not uncommon to meet pastors’ wives who really let themselves go; they sometimes feel that because their husband is a pastor, he is therefore trapped into fidelity, which gives them cause for laziness. "