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LordOpie

MOTHER HEN
Oct 17, 2002
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...of hypocrisy!

COLORADO SPRINGS - A pastor from Colorado resigned from a national organization and put himself on leave from his church Thursday, 9NEWS has confirmed.

A pastor from Colorado resigned from a national organization and put himself on leave from his church a day after a gay man claimed he has had a sexual relationship with the pastor for the past three years.


The resignation came a day after a male escort claimed he has been having a sexual relationship with the pastor for the past three years.

A statement from the New Life Church says Pastor Ted Haggard resigned as president of the multi-million member National Association of Evangelicals Thursday and put himself on leave from his church.

Haggard is the founder and senior leader of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs. The church has 14,000 members.

The statement says Haggard could "not continue to minister under the cloud created by the accusations".

Mike Jones, a gay man and admitted male escort, said on talk radio Wednesday he and Haggard had been in a "sexual business" relationship for the past three years.

Jones also says Haggard used methamphetamine in his presence.

Haggard denied the allegations in an exclusive interview with 9NEWS Wednesday night.

The statement from Martin Nussbaum, legal counsel for New Life Church, says Haggard put himself on administrative leave pending an investigation and a decision by the church's board of overseers.

"I am voluntarily 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," said Haggard in the statement.

In the interim the church's associate senior pastor will serve as acting pastor of the church.

Haggard is married with five children and an outspoken critic of gay marriage.

Nussbaum stresses Haggard's decision to resign from the National Association of Evangelicals and go on administrative leave is in no way an admission of guilt.

Nussbaum says the church's bylaws state that when an allegation of immorality is made, a pastor is supposed to go on leave while the rest of the board makes a decision on his future.

Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw profiled Haggard in 2005 in a series on mega-churches. Haggard was also listed by Time magazine as one of the 25 most influential Evangelicals in America last year.
 

Silver

find me a tampon
Jul 20, 2002
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Orange County, CA
I still have trouble believing this is true. Having said that, Haggard's denial, which was, "I've never had a gay relationship with anybody. I'm steady with my wife. I'm faithful to my wife," Haggard told CNN affiliate KUSA-TV."

That looks like word parsing on a Clintonesque level...
 

Silver

find me a tampon
Jul 20, 2002
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Any particular reason?
He can't possibly be that stupid.

I've said that many times, however, and have been surprised fairly often. We'll see tomorrow...either Mr. Jones gets slapped with a huge libel suit, or Ted's got some 'splaining to do. I imagine if it's true, Haggard will admit to a drug problem, head into rehab, and castigate liberals for being hypocrites for not accepting his homosexuality...
 

ohio

The Fresno Kid
Nov 26, 2001
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SF, CA
For ****s sake the church should give him a gold watch for having his affair with an adult.
 

Westy

the teste
Nov 22, 2002
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Sleazattle
Just because he is a butt pirate doesn't mean he can't be against gay marriage. He obviously prefers the $5 truck stop bathroom hummer to the long term relationship.
 

ALEXIS_DH

Tirelessly Awesome
Jan 30, 2003
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Lima, Peru, Peru
well getting "butt raided" is gay, getting a hummer from a trucker is just economical, especially if he doesnt have a beard.
i was wondering that too. i value my sphincterial/colonic integrity a bit too much.

what if the trucker has chipped teeth? do i get a discount for that? or is there a SM surcharge?
 

BurlyShirley

Rex Grossman Will Rise Again
Jul 4, 2002
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i was wondering that too. i value my sphincterial/colonic integrity a bit too much.

what if the trucker has chipped teeth? do i get a discount for that? or is there a SM surcharge?
Truckers alot of the time have dentures, so you can really strike it big if you look for the older, meth riddled ones.
 

$tinkle

Expert on blowing
Feb 12, 2003
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He can't possibly be that stupid.

I've said that many times, however, and have been surprised fairly often. We'll see tomorrow...either Mr. Jones gets slapped with a huge libel suit, or Ted's got some 'splaining to do. I imagine if it's true, Haggard will admit to a drug problem, head into rehab, and castigate liberals for being hypocrites for not accepting his homosexuality...
what's more intriguing about this is the lesson of forgiveness.

will ted sue, or will he turn the other cheek? (oh man that's a bad pun)
 

$tinkle

Expert on blowing
Feb 12, 2003
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By resigning he admitted guilt in most people's eyes.
mike jones has failed the poly, which was administered this morn. this guy sounds like another john mark carr. however, there seems to be more life breathed into these:



 

Silver

find me a tampon
Jul 20, 2002
10,840
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Orange County, CA
Well, he's either gay or a junkie, if you believe this:

The acting senior pastor at New Life, Ross Parsley, told KKTV-TV of Colorado Springs that Haggard admitted that some of the accusations were true.
"I just know that there has been some admission of indiscretion, not admission to all of the material that has been discussed but there is an admission of some guilt," Parsley told the station.
 

$tinkle

Expert on blowing
Feb 12, 2003
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"indiscretion" means talking to a ghey; we're not allowed to do that unless he's "in recovery".

i thought that was obvious.
 

manimal

Ociffer Tackleberry
Feb 27, 2002
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to play devil's advocate here:

what if he is innocent. if i were wanting to trample on the church's image and i were willing to promote myself as a male escort; all it would take is a call to the news station with the degrading statement. even the mere question of integrity issues can cause a huge uproar in the frequently targeted church.

just offering a different approach to this. i'll wait to see how the investigation turns out to form my opinion on the matter.
 

$tinkle

Expert on blowing
Feb 12, 2003
14,591
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well, frikkity-frik:
Haggard admits buying meth from male prostitute

By DAVE PHILIPPS THE GAZETTE

The Rev. Ted Haggard today admitted buying methamphetamine from a male prostitute, who he said he was referred to for a massage.

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

Haggard, speaking to reporters outside his Briargate home, made the admission one day after resigning his leadership post at the National Association of Evangelicals and putting himself on administrative leave from the 14,000-member New Life Church in Colorado Springs.

He said he never had sex with the prostitute, who made allegations this week that the two had a three-year sexual relationship.

Haggard was sitting in his pickup truck with his wife and three of his children in the backseat, and said he was on his way to an appointment. A panel of outside church leaders wanted to talk to him about the scandal, he said.

"Both (religious) positions are based on trust and right now my trust is questionable," he said.​
didn't see this coming. makes me want to take the 7 mile ride from my house & put a soggy biscuit in his malebox.
 

$tinkle

Expert on blowing
Feb 12, 2003
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Wait... so one day he just decide to do Meth?

yeah right...
i believe the thinking is if you're on meth & have gay sex, you're not really gay; it doesn't count. it's a derivative of "if i take this roofie & wake up dialated, i have plausable deniability".

hope that makes sense.
 

Silver

find me a tampon
Jul 20, 2002
10,840
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Orange County, CA
to play devil's advocate here:

what if he is innocent. if i were wanting to trample on the church's image and i were willing to promote myself as a male escort; all it would take is a call to the news station with the degrading statement. even the mere question of integrity issues can cause a huge uproar in the frequently targeted church.

just offering a different approach to this. i'll wait to see how the investigation turns out to form my opinion on the matter.
There would be a huge libel suit. Believe it or not, you can't just walk into a tv station and say, "I had gay sex with Ted Haggard" and get ushered onto the air five minutes later. It doesn't work like that.
 

Silver

find me a tampon
Jul 20, 2002
10,840
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Orange County, CA
You know, I've gotten massages in the past, and my wife gets them rather often, and neither of us has never been referred to a homosexual prostitute for one. And I live in the sodomite capital of the world, California...