Mark Driscoll takes an unusual rhetorical tack with the argument in this blog post:
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.
Emphasis mine. Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan.
UPDATE Apparently this post has been attracting a lot of attention. Dan Savage asks, in essence: If Haggard was straight and his wife hadn’t been lighting his candle lately, wouldn’t he have had an affair with a woman?
Logical. Yes. But that would suggest that homosexuality wasn’t a choice, a point I suspect Driscoll (as well as much of the church) isn’t willing to concede.
