The aforementioned Griggs post also led us to an article on Barnes' first post-Haggard sermon presciently entitled, "Integrity, Sin and Grace". The article had a link to the sermon, but the page has since been wiped clean. We looked at the writer's profile, but there's no information except for a link to the Grace Project.

Here's what we gathered from the article, penned by Eric Gorski: the same journalist who broke the Barnes story. Gorski quotes Barnes as saying:

Most of us, if the truth were known, we wear masks ...Sometimes, we wear masks because we want to be appear more perfect than we are. But the reality of it is, all of us are so very imperfect.

Some people view homosexuality second only to pedophilia on a list of "disgusting things a person can do," he said.

But why, he asked, do so many Christians gloss over the sins of adultery or idolatry?

"What causes more damage to a society? The 2 to 3 percent of the people in a society that are gay or the 50 percent of people in society who have been married and divorced and remarried?"

He urged grace and mercy for sinners - all kinds.