Looks like Pastor Ted Haggard, the fallen, meth-snorting, gay hooker-hiring moralist, and founder of New Life Church has a pastor falling in his footsteps...

Details are still somewhat fuzzy but Pastor Ted's New Life Church announced the resignation of another executive staff member, Christopher Beard, for sexual misconduct.

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The Borat Backlash has begun. First, Ron Rosenbaum's interesting "two Borat" piece in Slate and now a predictable scolding from Richard Goldstein, in the house organ of the "That's Not Funny!" left, The Nation Magazine.

If anyone's wonderign why the left is losing the culture war --...

There's really only one story here in Colorado at the moment....

UPDATES: Haggard has admitted that some of the allegations are true. Channel 9 News has a voice expert ID the accusers voicemail messages allegedly from Haggard with recorded interviews and says 12 words are exact...

So my friend Noel Black's monthly publication The Toilet Paper - straight outta Vaticanburg, i.e. Colorado Springs -- recently ran a satirical essay by Rob Brendle: Associate Pastor of New Life Church.

A bit of background: New Life is the largest church in Colorado....

What happens when you take an elf, a santa and the city of Colorado Springs on an impromptu fundraiser for NAMBLA: The North American Medical Botanists Laboratory Association?

Well, probably something like this. You can read more about it here.

Enjoy...

Put this on your Technorati watchlist or whatever your preferred radar mechanism might be. Admittedly, it's only a minor fissure at the moment but it could portend a major shift in thinking/policy on the evangelical right.

Dr. James "Spongedob" Dobson of Focus on The Family needs no introduction, but...

With all the high-falutin and appropriately serious commentary about Wal-Mart this week, let's take a moment to enjoy the lighter side.

May I present to you... The Wal-Mart Dance Party!

This delightful prank comes courtesy of The Toilet Paper, a free monthly from your favorite theocratic...

After years of speculating, bloviating, and bracing in abject horror, it’s official: The two largest alternative weekly newspaper chains have merged into one behemoth. New Times Inc, which owns weeklies in Phoenix, Denver, St. Louis, Kansas City, Berkeley, SF, Cleveland, Houston, Dallas, Miami and Palm Beach has acquired Village Voice...

Wal-Mart’s role in the culture wars is often ascribed to be predictably conservative. After all, this is the company that couldn’t bring itself to sell Barbie’s pregnant (and married!) doll-friend Midge. In recent years the beyotch from Bentonville tossed out Jon Stewart’s book America (because of its naked Supreme Court...

With its detumescent stock price and less than Gremlin-like growth in same store sales, it might seem like Wal-Mart, the world's largest whatever, is on the ropes. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that the retailer is even hitting the bottle, literally. In an effort to boost sales Wal-Mart is...

Don’t ask why I was on the Parents Television Council’s website. And please don’t ask why I needed to click the link to their Sex and The City campaign. Just know that I did. And now I've got culture war shrapnel embedded in my backside.

Hear my tale...

FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS

The Grand Poobahs of discount retailing have been tweaking their PR strategy of late and it doesn’t take a genius to figure out why: It’s playing defendant in the largest civil rights lawsuit in American history; Thousands of its workers are showing up on the public health care...