Ted Haggard: 'I Over-Repented' For My Meth-Gay Prostitute 'Crisis'

[Liberal_in_LA]

Rev. Ted Haggard has been leading his own new church for the past few months, and in a Wall Street Journal profile says he thinks he "over-repented" for an affair with a male prostitute, which he refers to as "my crisis." He also insists he's not gay -- and that his affair was just a massage gone wrong.

The profile describes Haggard's new backyard barn church, which features bags of cement and a pulpit made of buckets.

Haggard, who announced his new St. James Church in June, told the Journal: "Tiger Woods needs to golf. Michael Vick needs to be playing football. Ted Haggard needs to be leading a church."

Haggard was founder and leader of the powerful evangelical New Life Church, before he was forced to resign in 2006 after he admitted to buying meth from a male prostitute, with whom he also had an affair.

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Mr. Haggard said that is ridiculous. He portrays his encounter with the prostitute as a massage that went awry and said he doesn't have same-sex attractions. He dismisses as a "witch hunt" the findings of his former church that he engaged in a pattern of misconduct, including sordid talk and inappropriate relationships. (He said his only fault was cracking a few crude jokes.) But his assurances have raised some eyebrows.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/07/ted_haggard_i_over-repented_for_my_meth-gay_prosti.php

[SpiralHawk]

1. dupe

There's a long long DU thread on this from over the weekend...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8811298

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. Ok. Thanks.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. I'm under-whelmed by his over-repentence.

[lame54]

4. everybody needs to sing along with this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZmHC75FDqQ

[The_Commonist]

5. Ted Haggard is totally gay!

"Not that there's anything wrong with that."

I knew it the first time I ever saw him, when I watched "Jesus Camp."
He would be such a happier human if he would just come clean with himself...

[Scurrilous]

6. LOL

:thumbsup: