Key Evangelical quits amid gay sex claim

[Herman Munster]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061102/ap_on_re_us/haggard_sex_allegations

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The leader of the influential National Association of Evangelicals, a vocal opponent of the drive for same-sex marriage, resigned Thursday after being accused of paying for sex with a man.

The Rev. Ted Haggard also stepped aside as head of his 14,000-member New Life Church while a church panel investigates, saying he could "not continue to minister under the cloud created by the accusations."

The investigation came after a 49-year-old man told a Denver radio station that Haggard paid him to have sex.

Haggard, a married father of five, denied the allegations in an interview with KUSA-TV late Wednesday: "Never had a gay relationship with anybody, and I'm steady with my wife, I'm faithful to my wife."

In a written statement, Haggard said: "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. In the interim, I will seek both spiritual advice and guidance."

[BootinUp]

1. "...I'm steady with my wife..."

Just seems a strange way to put it if you ask me. :freak:

[AlamoDemoc]

2. ...."In the interim, I will seek both spiritual advice and guidance."

can you say, R-E-H-A-B ?

[mcg]

3. Rated and emailed. nt