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Omnivorous Member  Posts: 3991 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 6.9 |
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nj writes: I talked a civilian neighbor into enlisting so I could sleep with his wife. Yikes! 
But I did have Biblical precedent for that, so maybe it wasn't the most shameful. A Biblical precedent for sleeping with a man's wife? Did you not actually commit the act? I'm not sure I understand the question. You must know the story of David, Bathsheba, and Uriah? I've already revealed more than a gentleman should--the denouement has little bearing on the intent, whether by Christ's lights or mine. Fortunately, the intended cuckold, unlike the Hittite, survived his military service.
I guess there is no way of finding him again. Even if he lived two doors down you still might not recognize him to tell him that you were sorry for that. I apologized at length soon after. We soon drifted apart. A betrayed friendship is like lost innocence; you can regret and repent, and they can accept and forgive, but things are never quite the same. Edited by Omnivorous, : No reason given. Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time, madam, is all that distinguishes us from the other animals. -Pierre De Beaumarchais (1732-1799)
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The reports I read quoted the test operator as saying the amount of stress involved made the results especially unreliable. There are good reasons why U.S. courts do not accept polygraph examinations as evidence, and even those who rely on them (FBI, CIA, prospective employers), use multiple-session results.
Given Haggard's admissions, the polygraph test seems largely irrelevant. As one writer notes:
Haggard even stopped in his car with his wife to talk to the media to say "how grateful" he and his family are that Jones failed a lie detector test ” at least on questions about a sexual relationship. But the expert who performed the test said the results could have been skewed because Jones was feeling quite haggard, with only two hours of sleep the night before. Jones will take two more tests early next week. No word on whether "grateful" Haggard is willing to take a test himself. So the polygraph process remains incomplete. If the accuser passes the next two polygraph tests, will that mean anything here? I did notice that some evangelicals have begun to blame Haggard's wife for his transgressions:
Writing in his personal blog, [Seattle Pastor] Driscoll offers his fellow pastors "some practical suggestions" on how to avoid the type of temptation that consumed Pastor Haggard. And near the top of his list? "Most pastors I know do not have satisfying, free, sexual conversations and liberties with their wives. At the risk of being even more widely despised than I currently am, I will lean over the plate and take one for the team on this. 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. A wife who lets herself go and is not sexually available to her husband in the ways that the Song of Songs is so frank about is not responsible for her husband's sin, but she may not be helping him either." Amazingly insightful pastoral care, yes? Better he should add insult to injury for Haggard's wife than keep his mouth shut and/or accept Haggard's personal responsibility for his own conduct. The infelicity of Pastor Driscoll being willing to "lean over the plate and take one for the team" is pretty droll, though.  Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time, madam, is all that distinguishes us from the other animals. -Pierre De Beaumarchais (1732-1799)
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