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US Pastor Admits Sex 'Immorality'

A respected pastor and vocal opponent of gay marriage is a sanctimonious, contemptible asshole? Never saw that coming. "There is a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark and I've been warring against it my entire adult life," he writes in his confession. When he says "repulsive and dark," he's not talking about his antediluvian religious views on marriage, but rather the fact that he secretly counts himself among the very people whom he so enthusiastically persecutes. It's like being a Jewish Nazi. The self-loathing must be epic.

But don't think that a humiliating national scandal will drive him to apostacy. Oh, no. It'll just make him more religious. That's how religion works; it's an ideology that subsists on a viscious cycle of impossible standards, inevitable guilt, and insincere repentance. Amen.