Pastor will shut down controversial kids camp

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By Religion News Service and The Associated Press



MAGNOLIA PICTURES / AP
In the film "Jesus Camp," the Rev. Ted Haggard is shown preaching. Haggard was fired by a Colorado church amid allegations of gay sex and drug use.
The summer camp featured in the documentary "Jesus Camp," which includes scenes with disgraced preacher Ted Haggard, will shut down for at least several years because of negative reaction sparked by the film, according to the camp's director.

"Right now we're just not a safe ministry," Becky Fischer, the fiery Pentecostal pastor featured in "Jesus Camp," said Tuesday.

The documentary, which hit select U.S. theaters during the summer, portrays Fischer, 55, as drill instructor to a group of young evangelical children steeling themselves for spiritual and political warfare


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[pepperbear]

1. willickers! those banner ads paid off maybe? n/t

I always thought overexposure might scare people a bit.

But then again, sometimes it just takes a fairy.