What the Butt?

What? A powerful anti-gay pastor in Colorado Springs is getting his gay on? What? He smoked meth? What? What? After three weeks he's a reformed hetero? Today's video by brilliant lyricist Samwell is dedicated to the Rev. Ted Haggard. May he live long and well — because repressing the "big...

By Joel WarnerFebruary 23, 2007

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What? A powerful anti-gay pastor in Colorado Springs is getting his gay on? What? He smoked meth?

What? What? After three weeks he’s a reformed hetero?

Today’s video by brilliant lyricist Samwell is dedicated to the Rev. Ted Haggard. May he live long and well — because repressing the “big what” sure ain’t easy. — Jared Jacang Maher

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Joel Warner is a former staff writer for Westword and International Business Times. He’s also written for WIRED, Men’s Journal, Men’s Health, Bloomberg Businessweek, Popular Science, Slate, Grantland and many other publications. He’s co-author of the 2014 book The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny, published by Simon & Schuster.

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