Carrying your dad's dumbbell

How are Ted Haggard's kids coping with their dad's mistake and the fact that everyone at school knows about it? Andrew can relate to that personally, and shares: "We were scum. We felt guilty for what our dad did with those boys but we [or at least I] also felt guilty for destabilizing a Christian institution that had suddenly shifted into emergency gear and the ministry of damage control. We left without incident and no one waved goodbye. We vanished, just like they wanted it. It was our dad who committed the shameful act but we all bathed in that shame. No one wanted a part of it, or us. No one wanted to be contaminated. We were the fallout family." Full post here, comments closed.