From a reader:
Jonah,
Whatโs completely lame about the announcement in the Haggard story is that
the ministers overseeing TH abandon biblical, theological, or moral
categories of evaluation for therapeutic ones. As a Christian, I care far
less about Haggardโs โdiscoveryโ that he is โcompletely heterosexualโ
(which I guess means gladiator movies leave him entirely unmoved?) than
about his resolve to honor his marital vows; what matters morally isnโt
the precise configuration of his passions but his will to order them
toward the good of his wife, family, community, and vocation. The
ministersโ self-caricaturing clinical assessment serves to prove Philip
Rieff right on the triumph of the therapeutic (in a third-rate,
rent-to-own sort of way).






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