Another week, another gay Republican scandal......

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Haggard steps down amid gay affair inquiry

By Eric Gorski, Felisa Cardona and Manny Gonzales
Denver Post Staff Writers
DenverPost.com



Ted Haggard, one of the most prominent evangelical pastors in the nation, resigned today as president of the National Association of Evangelicals amid allegations that he carried on a three-year sexual relationship with a male prostitute.

Haggard, founder of the 14,000-member New Life Church, has denied the accusations but said in a statement released by the church today that he could "not continue to minister under the cloud created by accusations made on Denver talk radio this morning."

He has placed himself on administrative leave pending investigation, spiritual counsel and a decision by the church's board of overseers, the church's legal counsel said. Haggard founded the church in 1985.

"I am voluntarialy stepping aside from leadership so that the overseer process can be allowed to proceed with integrity. I hope to be able to discuss this matter in more detail at a later date," Haggard's statement said.

The former prostitute, Mike Jones, 49, of Denver, went public with the accusations on Tuesday, saying he felt compelled to do so because he believes Haggard, a strong opponent of same-sex unions, has been hypocritical. Haggard is married with five children.

"I made myself cry and I made myself sick," Jones said about his decision to come forward. "I felt I owed this to the community. What he is saying is we are not worthy, but he is."

Jones says he was contacted three years ago by Haggard for sex - he thinks through a gay newspaper advertisement or an online ad he posted on rentboy.com.

Today, Jones showed the Denver Post an envelope addressed to him from "Art," a name Jones says Haggard used - sent from an address in Colorado Springs. Jones said the envelope came to him with two $100 bills inside.

Jones also played a recording of a voicemail left for Jones from "Art." Jones refused to reveal what the topic of the voicemail was about because there could be legal problems and he wants to consult with an attorney.

"They want to protect the sanctity of marriage and I am trying to figure out what that means because they are not doing a good job," Jones said of anti-gay marriage proponents. "To have someone in such a high profile position preaching against them and doing opposite behind other people's backs is hypocritical."

Jones said he would take a lie detector test to validate his claims.

The church's lawyer, Martin Nussbaum, said Haggard's resignation is in no way an admission of guilt. He's already denied Jones' accusations, but feels that when an allegation like this is made, he needs to take this step, Nussbaum said.

Nussbaum, paraphrased: The bylaws state that when an allegation of immorality is made, this process is triggered, where he puts himself on leave. The outside board makes the final decision.

In the interim, the church's associate senior pastor, the Rev. Ross Parsley, will serve as acting senior pastor of the church.

Staff writer Manny Gonzales can be reached at 303-954-1537 or mgonzales@denverpost.com

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Not familiar at all with the guy's "ministry", but if he's turning it over to Rod Parsley's brother, then they're probably dominionist totalitarian nutcases like he is.

Or nut-lickers, in Ted's case.

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Yep, he's definitely a dominionist dickwad alright.... and a close personal friend of another well known Republican closet case......

http://www.harpers.org/SoldiersOfChrist.html

“Church” is insufficient to describe the complex. There is a permanent structure called the Tent, which regularly fills with hundreds or thousands of teens and twentysomethings for New Life's various youth gatherings. Next to the Tent stands the old sanctuary, a gray box capable of seating 1,500; this juts out into the new sanctuary, capacity 7,500, already too small. At the complex's western edge is the World Prayer Center, which looks like a great iron wedge driven into the plains. The true architectural wonder of New Life, however, is the pyramid of authority into which it orders its 11,000 members. At the base are 1,300 cell groups, whose leaders answer to section leaders, who answer to zone, who answer to district, who answer to Pastor Ted Haggard, New Life's founder.

Pastor Ted, who talks to President George W. Bush or his advisers every Monday, is a handsome forty-eight-year-old Indianan, most comfortable in denim. He likes to say that his only disagreement with the President is automotive; Bush drives a Ford pickup, whereas Pastor Ted loves his Chevy. In addition to New Life, Pastor Ted presides over the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), whose 45,000 churches and 30 million believers make up the nation's most powerful religious lobbying group, and also over a smaller network of his own creation, the Association of Life-Giving Churches, 300 or so congregations modeled on New Life's “free market” approach to the divine.

[ODShowtime]

I can't believe I missed this.

Doing meth before meeting your gay prostitute?

The leader of the flock!

[LoungeMachine]

I wonder when he'll be checking into Rehab and outing the Priest that molested him....

[DEMON CUNT]

AWESOME!

Christian hypocrite cocksuckers are way more entertaining than stupid John "Frankenstien McLose Election" Kerry!

[DEMON CUNT]

Originally posted by LoungeMachine
I wonder when he'll be checking into Rehab and outing the Priest that molested him....

Yes, I am sure that the scheme to avoid responsibility is already being designed.

[LoungeMachine]

Reuters

11.02.06


John Kerry has just made a joke about Gay Hypocrticial Neo Con Evangelical Preachers.

Rove is thrilled.

[Hardrock69]

LMFAO!

Kerry crams his own foot into his mouth so deep he craps it out his ass......fucking dumbass.

As for the cock-gobbling evangelist, another Christian hypocrite fucking asshole.


There was a news item in Gnashville last week about how some small church here in Tennessee was going to "boycott WalMart" because WalMart has a corporate policy that does not discriminate against gay people.

The stupid fucking shithead fucks at that Church fail to understand that WalMart is acting much more Christian than they are.

But then, I have never gone to the small hick town where it is to participate in their farmhand devil worshipping ceremonies either.

These narrow-minded fucktards would just as soon have a world full of White Christian folks, where anyone who does not conform is cast out of society and fed to the lions....

If you are going to claim to be a "Christian", obviously you should walk the walk.

This stupid fucking asshole is probably going to hell in a handbasket now....will his family disown him? Will he become an alcoholic junkie male prostitute starring in gay fuck movies in order to make enough to pay his legal bills?

Tune in to next week's episode of "As The Conservative Burns".

[Nickdfresh]

He's not gay, he was just ministering to the gay hooker's butt...

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Local news video @ Crooks and Liars:

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/11/02/ted-haggard-talks/

[Hardrock69]

Yeah that fucking idiot will do anything to deny he is a pole-smoker.

He apparently worships by screaming "Oh GOD!" as he is getting butt-slammed by the gay prostitute.

[DrMaddVibe]

Originally posted by Nickdfresh
He's not gay, he was just ministering to the gay hooker's butt...

LMAO!!!


I don't think he's gay, but I think he'd hold a dick in his mouth till a real queer showed up!

[DLR'sCock]

Let's not forget that this guy is a METH user.



Meth is bad bad shit too. I rank that up there with crack and heroin.

[Hardrock69]

It is all over.

He is a Meth-smoking cock gobbler:


Evangelist admits meth, massage, no sex

By CATHERINE TSAI, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 10 minutes ago

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Evangelist Ted Haggard admitted Friday that he bought methamphetamine and received a massage from a gay prostitute who claims he was paid for drug-fueled trysts by the outspoken gay marriage opponent.

Haggard resigned Thursday as president of the National Association of Evangelicals and stepped down as leader of his Colorado megachurch while the two groups investigate the allegations.

Talking to reporters outside his house Friday, Haggard denied the sex allegations but said that he did buy meth from the man because he was curious.

"I bought it for myself but never used it," he said. "I was tempted, but I never used it."

Haggard, a married father of five, said he never had sex with Mike Jones, a 49-year-old male prostitute who sparked the scandal when he told a radio station he had had a three-year sexual relationship with the minister. He said he did get a massage from Jones after being referred to him by a Denver hotel.

Haggard resigned as president of the 30 million-member association Thursday and stepped down as the leader of the New Life Church pending investigations into Jones' claims.

The executive committee of the National Association of Evangelicals, which claims 30 million members, planned a conference call Friday and said it would release a statement afterward.

The acting pastor of Haggard's New Life Church, Ross Parsley, told congregants in an e-mail that the church's four-member board of overseers had met with Haggard on Thursday.

"It is important for you to know that he confessed to the overseers that some of the accusations against him are true. He has willingly and humbly submitted to the authority of the board of overseers, and will remain on administrative leave during the course of the investigation," the e-mail stated.

The scandal hit as voters in Colorado and seven other states are getting ready to decide Tuesday on amendments banning gay marriage. Besides the proposed ban on the Colorado ballot, a separate measure would establish the legality of domestic partnerships providing same-sex couples with many of the rights of married couples.

Members of Haggard's 14,000-member megachurch were stunned.

"It's political, right before the elections," said Brian Boals, a New Life member for 17 years.

Church member E.J. Cox, 25, called the claims "ridiculous."

"People are always saying stuff about Pastor Ted," she said. "You just sort of blow it off. He's just like anyone else in the public eye."

Jones said he decided to go public because he was also upset when he discovered Haggard and the New Life Church had publicly opposed same-sex marriage.

"It made me angry that here's someone preaching about gay marriage and going behind the scenes having gay sex," he said.

"I just want people to step back and take a look and say, 'Look, we're all sinners, we all have faults, but if two people want to get married, just let them, and let them have a happy life,'" said Jones, who added that he isn't working for any political group.

Jones claimed that Haggard, 50, paid him to have sex nearly every month over three years. He said he advertised himself as an escort on the Internet and was contacted by a man who called himself Art, who snorted methamphetamine before their sexual encounters to heighten his experience.

Jones said he later saw the man on television identified as Haggard and that the two last had sex in August.

He said he has voice mail messages from Haggard, as well as an envelope he said Haggard used to mail him cash. He declined to make the voice mails available to the AP, but KUSA-TV reported what it said were excerpts late Thursday that referred to methamphetamine.

"Hi Mike, this is Art," one call began, according to the station. "Hey, I was just calling to see if we could get any more. Either $100 or $200 supply."

A second message, left a few hours later, began: "Hi Mike, this is Art, I am here in Denver and sorry that I missed you. But as I said, if you want to go ahead and get the stuff, then that would be great. And I'll get it sometime next week or the week after or whenever."

Haggard was appointed president of the evangelicals association in March 2003. He has participated in conservative Christian leaders' conference calls with White House staffers and lobbied members of Congress last year on
U.S. Supreme Court appointees after
Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement.

After Massachusetts legalized gay marriage in 2004, Haggard and others began organizing state-by-state opposition. Last year, Haggard and officials from the nearby Christian ministry Focus on the Family announced plans to push Colorado's gay marriage ban for the 2006 ballot.

At the time, Haggard said that he believed marriage is a union between a man and woman rooted in centuries of tradition, and that research shows it's the best family unit for children.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061103/ap_on_re_us/haggard_sex_allegations