In the case of Ted Haggard, he was obviously a major major target of not only the demonic hordes but the human beings who hate Christianity, the liberals who are thrilled that an evangelical leader was felled right before a major election, now gloating and sneering and thumping their chests.
No.
He was a major target of people who thought that two adults, in love, should be able to marry, and that the configuration of their genitals had no bearing on whether or not that should be allowed to happen.
Why was he a target to those people? Because he took it upon himself, with no provocation whatsoever, to antagonize those people to the greatest extent possible.
What we're seeing is one more example of the almost axiomatic fact that evangelical leaders who froth at the mouth to "protect traditional marriage" (whatever the hell that means) are almost always self-hating homosexuals who simply don't feel like they can emerge from the closet without the destruction of everything they hold dear.
Never mind, of course, that it's the closeting and the homo-bashing that make that the case in the first place. If they could simply make peace with themselves and the reality of their situation, like normal homosexuals do, they would see what Andrew Sullivan calls "the deep wound of the closet."
To the extent that a linchpin of the gay-bashing movement has been rendered powerless, the news is good. But to the extent that an environment of homo-hating bigotry drove him into the closet and to the abuse of drugs, and has inflicted deep wounds on his wife and family, the man should be pitied. He's got no one to blame but himself - not for being gay, but for being so determined to be straight and to enforce ostracism of homosexuals that he made a very simple situation about a thousand times worse than it had to be, for himself, his family, and even the nation.
How such Christian leaders get themselves into such totally unprotected positions is the question.
It's not a hard question. Whenever someone is elevated as the central figure in a cult of personality, as Haggard was, it becomes very, very easy to believe the rhetoric people are saying about you - you're better than everybody else, you're more holy, you're more righteous. You begin to be under the impression that you can't possibly do wrong, and whatever you want to do must be right. How could it not? Why would God elevate someone who wanted to do bad things?
Haggard was elevated beyond the traditional structures of accountability. Christians tend to do that to their leaders. (See Bush et al.)