disturbing glee

I had lunch with people at work. I know they're pretty much all liberals and usually I just try to keep my mouth shut when they start going off, but it was really too much today. They were just gleeful over the news about this evangelical minister, Ted Haggard, being implicated with a male prostitute and drugs. Now, I am not very religious and, in fact, I strongly disagree with the really hard core religious people who want to have things like Intelligent Design taught in schools. Still, I can't say that I take any pleasure when I see someone like this Haggard guy caught up in a scandal... but obviously the folks I was at lunch with do... they thought it was terrific. One woman said how great it was when hypocrites were exposed. This was too much for me so I said, "oh, you must have gotten a kick out of John Kerry's hypocrisy about the troops this week". Of course, that set them off. "Oh... John Kerry was just telling a joke." "John Kerry was a soldier... he supports the troops." Yeah... right. I said it just exposed how much he looked down on our troops. That was just like throughing rubbing alcohol on a fire. Voosh! It ultimately settled down. I supposed I shouldn't get into arguments with those people. I'm not going to change anyone's mind, but sometimes I just feel the need to confront them.