Top Evangelical Denies Gay Affair

[Patiod]

The leader of one of Colorado's most popular mega-churches, Ted Haggard, said his church would investigate allegations from a male prostitute that Haggard solicited gay sex, 9News reported Wednesday.
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Male escort Mike Jones of Denver started talking to 9 Wants to Know two months ago, making claims that he has had a three-year sexual business relationship with Haggard, the station reported.
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The station spoke to Haggard outside his home in Colorado Springs, and he fervently denied the allegations. Haggard is married and has five children.
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Haggard has been one of the major proponents for a state constitutional ban on gay marriage.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_4588998

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Haven't seen any proof other than the claims of the hooker.

[JuniperLea]

1. Repressed homosexuality is an evil, evil thing

Why not just be who God made you? Seems to be an affront to God if you ask me.

[JackBeck]

2. The male escort claims to have voice mails and letters from Haggard.

And will be taking a lie detector test on Friday.

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/11/gay-hooker-says-he-has-voicemails.html

[Patiod]

3. Hey, at least he didn't want to MARRY the guy

THAT would have been appalling.

And this is someone who claims to have a direct line to the White House

/didn't think the escort would have made the accusations without any proof, but the articles I saw on Google News didn't mention any proof

[JackBeck]

8. Investigation has been going on for two months.

Don't think they'd run with this story unless they were sure.

It should be interesting to see how this plays out over the next few days and if it gets play on the national nightly news.

[Ian David]

12. How long did the media investigate John Mark Karr?

We really can't trust our media to be the gatekeepers of what is credible anymore.

That's what Blogs are for now.

[JackBeck]

16. I see your point.

I trust John at americablog, which is where I first heard this story. Especially after he broke the "you-know-who" story.

[Cha]

25. I would love for there to be

proof of this and to bring the hypocrite down. It seems to be in the air lately..bringing down the hypocrites.

[sugapablo]

4. Common Fundie, Admit It!

Enjoy it! Be proud of it! Swing both ways and enjoy life!

[Infinite Hope]

5. Of course he wants a ban on gay marriage...

it would be too alluring to him if it were allowed.

[Ian David]

13. That was his excuse not to leave his wife for his gay whore.

It's all so CLEAR now!

[NOLADEM]

6. Always remember to be warry of those who 'doth protest too much'...almost always true

Swaggart, Bill Bennett, all of the sanctimonious bastards have one thing in common...they are bigger crooks and sinners than the average bear, and loudly proclaiming the opposite is nothing more than false alibi.

[bmbmd]

7. Don't jump to any conclusions.

This sounds like Jon Karr type stuff to me.

[wakeme2008]

9. three words Cell Phone Pictures

:evilgrin:

[tanyev]

10. Oh, my.

Truth explosion.

:nuke:

[AlCzervik]

11. in the Rocky Mountain news story he He (jones) claims he has voicemails

and letters, i'm sure voice matching isn't that hard to get someone to do

[Ian David]

14. It gets stranger and stranger

Apparently, it's alleged that Haggard uses Crystal Meth (Duh! He's a Republicker! ALL Republickers are tweekers).

Also...


Dobson issues press release, repeating gay-hooker allegations against evangelical leader, in order to protest media publicizing gay hooker allegations

by John in DC - 11/02/2006 02:08:00 PM

Uh, thanks Mr. Dobson, you just told even more people about the details of a story that you think the media shouldn't be sharing details of. And you wonder why you're losing.
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=75600

(Dobson is probably the only other evangelical Christian leader as powerful as Ted Haggard, the guy alleged to have paid a gay hooker for sex for the past 3 years, and there are also allegations that Haggard used drugs - and I don't mean the Rush Limbaugh kind.)

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http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/11/dobson-issues-press-release-repeating.html

Do you think Dobson wants Haggard's job?

[AlCzervik]

15. i think Dobson will high stick anybody to get their $$$ gravy train.

[karlrschneider]

17. "his church will investigate"? Well THAT will clear things up.

:eyes:

[gratuitous]

21. That struck me, too

If my congregation's pastor was accused of some sort of misconduct, we wouldn't be doing any "investigation," we'd just ask him. Of course, since he's gay, we wouldn't give a rip if he had an ongoing relationship, and in fact, we've prayed for just that happy occurrence for him.

It must be exhausting being so fundy; you've constantly got to be on guard for all sorts of normal human behavior that you've deemed unacceptable, much of which isn't nearly as overt or obvious as a loving relationship with another adult.

[Critters2]

38. Yep, as pastor of a progressive church, I must say

freedom to be human is a great gift! Ted should try it! Otoh, paying a prostitute of any stripe would get me in trouble.

As to what would happen if I were accused of improper behavior, well, the church I serve wouldn't do the investigating. Judicatories would. A congregation can be too invested in its pastor to be objective. Especially a church like Ted's--not part of a denominational structure, founded by him, etc. Why, even the church "spokeswoman" is his niece! How objective will such an investigation be?

[TexasLawyer]

24. LOL!!!

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Ian David]

29. If he weighs the same as a twinkie, then he's made of cake...

and therefore...

a gay!

[Erechtheides]

42. hehehe

They dressed me up like this!

[Shakespeare]

18. mmmmm....my daily dose of schadenfreude!!

The puggies are keeping me well supplied of late.

[Patiod]

20. That's exactly what my S.O. said

I called him to tell him about the story, and he said, in a Homer Simpson voice: "mmmmmm.....schadenfreude".

[JerseygirlCT]

19. Well, sure. He doesn't want to *marry* the guy, just pay for sex

so he's got no problem with a ban on gay marriage.

[dmallind]

22. Maybe they're right after all.

I mean let's say gay marriage were legal, would he leave his wife for the guy? I mean maybe he just wants to be married and women are the only option at this point.

So I suppose I should stop using my normal argument of "how would it hurt YOUR marriage if gays could marry?".

Damn - it was usually a good argument too, as, unless you've got a hankering to play for the other team anyway, there's no way gay marriage could affect a straight person's at all.

[JerseygirlCT]

37. Well, I was actually just being a wise guy

But I suppose the answer is that if gay marriage were available, wouldn't gay people chose to marry people of their own gender in the first place?

I feel badly for the wife in your scenario, but let's face it, it wouldn't have been much of a marriage to begin with, based on that big an untruth, would it?

[dmallind]

39. I was trying to be a wise guy too.

Just never could work out why gay marriage would hurt hetero marriage, despite that being the number one claim these nutjobs tend to make. It pisses me off every time some RW nut is being interviewed and they make that claim that the interviewer NEVER asks them the simple question "Wait a minute, it's not like we're talking about making gay marriage MANDATORY here - what harm could it do to your marriage?"

[JerseygirlCT]

40. There IS no answer to that

Just as there is NO secular reason not to allow gay marriage.

They've got nothing, and the longer people ask questions, the more apparent that will be to more people. If their marriage is in trouble b/c John and Steve down the street just got married, then they had a pretty crappy marriage to begin with.

Pisses me off, too!

[torrentprime]

23. LOL

As a gay man, I do get a kick out of these things, even though I shouldn't.... While I have been lucky and blessed enough to not go through serious gay-bashing or intimidation, the stories of those who have, bred out of the preachings of men like this, make embarassments like this only just desserts.

[Cha]

27. Well, Welcome to

DU, torrentprime!

[SoCalDem]

26. So, HIS church will "investigate" HIM?

How conveeeeeeeenient:puke:

Of course, since HE pays them, I'm sure they will do a cracker-jack job on the investigation..

[Ian David]

28. We need to restore old-fashioned, traditional values

It used to be that you never had prostitutes coming forward and saying they were having affairs with church officials and politicians.

But what has our country come to?

Why aren't these hookers keeping their mouths shut?

Where are their professional ethics?

If you pay someone to provide a service, then they should respect your privacy.

The Mayflower Madame never named names.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Biddle_Barrows

And yet we have people like Leola McConnell, a professional Dominatrix, violating her code of professional conduct to invade the privacy of George W. Bush by exposing the fact that he performed oral sex on Victor Ashe. Exactly why Bush appointed Mr. Ashe as Ambassador to Poland is their own business-- not ours. But I bet you have to give some pretty great head for Bush to give you a recess appointment as Ambassador to The United Nations.

And now, we have this latest prostitute coming forward and exposing yet another right-wing hypocrite.

Just because you blow strangers for a living is no reason to behave unprofessionally.

Now, I have no problem with someone exposing a right-wing hypocrite that they slept with for free.

But when a right-wing hypocrite pays you to have sex, they're not just a sleezeball-- they're also a customer.

And the customer is always right.

And if you're a gay male prostitute, the customer is also, usually, right-wing.

What ever happened to "The Hooker With A Heart Of Gold" we all used to know and love?
(See: Hooker with a heart of gold, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooker_with_a_heart_of_gold)



Is that species extinct?

Or have they all just packed-up their duffel bags full of extra underpants and opened mega-churches?

Our country is lost.

[progressivebydesign]

30. What IS it with those people?

The most hypocritical people I've ever met. I think they're drawn to the cult-type religions because they are desperate to deny who they really are. They can blame, what THEY think are shortcomings, on demons.

I'm tired of the demond defense. I'm tired of hypocrites.

[zanne]

31. It's all about playing a part and...

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[AlCzervik]

32. oh dear, seems Pastor Ted has resigned.

www.abcnews.com

[Anakin Skywalker]

35. Aww. Now What Is His Congregation Gonna Do?

The flock will be lost without its shepherd. What a shame.

[AlCzervik]

36. well first they'll blame Clinton--

[Anakin Skywalker]

33. Don't Deny It, Teddy! Celebrate It!

[deadparrot]

34. He just resigned...

http://www.denverpost.com/specialreports/ci_4588998

[Julius Civitatus]

41. He just admitted "some" of the accusations

He won't specify which ones.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

43. Top? I thought he was a bottom.

That's not so bad, then.