Escort says Haggard's apology "hollow" - Jones got 2 Death Threats

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_4611420

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Mike Jones, the gay prostitute who brought down a Colorado Springs evangelical pastor with allegations the two had a three-year homosexual affair, said today that he feels the minister still hasn't been completely honest.

"He's still lying to himself," Jones said of Haggard, who was fired by church overseers Saturday for "sexually immoral" conduct. "If he's not truly honest with himself, he'll never be over it."

"If I was going to issue an apology, it would be a paragraph long," Jones said. "He was definitely pulling the emotional strings for his followers."

Jones said he had sex monthly with Haggard for three years, ending in August. From those sexual encounters, Jones said he believes Haggard is a homosexual, despite having a wife and five children.

"Ted, you need to be honest with yourself," Jones said over the air. "If you're a gay man, you're a gay man."

Jones said he has received two death threats since identifying Haggard on Thursday.

[Bluebear]

1. 'Jones said he has received two death threats'

Tsk tsk, thou shalt not kill, Xtreme Christians!

[helderheid]

4. Homos don't count.

:sarcasm:

[Xeric]

2. 2 death threats

From loving followers of Christ.
It never ceases to amaze me.

[Hubert Flottz]

3. "received two death threats since identifying Haggard"

Who would Jesus threaten?

Compassionate threats I'll bet!

[marmar]

6. So-called "Good Christian folk"....

have been responsible for some of the most virulent hate in the history of this planet.

[donco6]

5. I agree.

I've heard these hystrionic apologies before. This guy is right. When you apologize, it should be short, sweet and to the point. Anything else is justification.

[Xeric]

8. He's sorry he got caught

He's sorry the money train stopped.

[Catherine Vincent]

7. Death threats!?!?

No doubt from Haggard's followers. This is just sad!

[ecstatic]

9. His name is kind of generic, how did they even track him down?

I can't imagine tracking down a "Mike Jones," in fact, there is even a rapper who goes by that name. If someone did manage to track him down, he's a big dude-hopefully he can fend for himself against the would-be-evangelical-murderers.

[donco6]

11. He went to the press himself.

There was no "tracking down" to do.

So you're justifying phone threats now?

[ecstatic]

13. lol. of course not!

My post asks how they found Mike Jones phone number and/or address information to deliver the threats. I'd imagine there are thousands of Mike Jones in the phone book.

[Rosemary2205]

12. You can't fight off a bomb with muscles.

The rad right's style is BOMBING abortion clinics, AIDS infected hemophiliac children, gay bars...........

[ecstatic]

14. true. nt

[Bear down under]

15. Through his website

which has been quite well publicised and has his contact phone number on it. He is a very brave man and I hope his local gay community is giving him the assistance and support that he needs and deserves. And that the "Christian" community understands the big damage that will be done to them by the mere threats, much more by any attempt to carry them out.

[MidwestTransplant]

10. AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE!!!

[Imagevision]

16. Death threat? good that Jones mentioned it, -- to late with the cat out of the bag...

just too late...

[Cass]

17. "Jones said he has received two death threats..."

Ah, the famed Compassionate Conservatism we've all heard so much about.

[badgerpup]

18. "How DARE you reveal that our Symbol of Holy Purity has clay feet?!"

How dare you bring the Real World into our closed community?

I'm wondering in how many tortured, submerged subconciouses the thought is s-l-o-w-l-y starting to percolate that "...if it's good enough, or alright for Ted Haggard...then why not ME?"
:think: