Rev. Haggard was former Delaware County resident

This guy is from my town. Well, they call it Yorktown, but it's really just another neighborhood of Muncie where I'm from.
Oh- ever wonder why I'm such a bitter fuck?
Part of it was growing up the town featured in the "Middletown" series from PBS.
That was the series that claimed to expose life in Muncie from a supposed very clinical view.
What it seemed to do from my point of view, was give the the rightwing, self-righteous crowd from around here a chance to decry and bad mouth anyone who didn't attend their church.
Turns out this guys father was featured in the series as founder of a big evangelical group.
The problem came when the series aired ( the year before I started high school) it featured a total hatchet job on MY HIGH SCHOOL, supposedly exposing what horrible sinners we were. The amount of heat was so instant and so heavy after the series that being a kid in the following years was so hellish, so put under a goddamned microscope that it can't be described. During those years, it was how white, rich and clean cut you could look- how quickly you could become an "Alex Keaton" and start praising the Lord as well. Trouble is, almost everyone I knew who were the "very clean cut" young men and women turned out to be the biggest coke dealers/coke sluts, closeted gay or lesbians or in many cases even true "uncle pervy" types who jack-off in parking lots and in front of the co-ed dorms.

The pressure cooker environment created by this fucker and his dead dad is a place that nobody should ever have to live under. But I grew up there. I suppose I did the best with what I had. I did end up a bitter and outspoken critic of what's wrong. But due in no small part to the traditional and REAL christian upbringing that my parents gave me, at least I didn't end up like THEM.