Tag: Ted Haggard

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Mike Jones, the Denver man who brought national evangelical leader Pastor Ted Haggard to his knees, released a video yesterday criticizing New Life Church for paying "hush money" in a now-revealed tryst with a young male church member and ignoring his claims of more victims. He also wants an apology from the church for being treated like "a useless piece of meat."

Fresh revelations have emerged that disgraced evangelical leader Ted Haggard had a previously undisclosed cash-for-sex relationship with a young male New Life Church volunteer.

Controversy magnet Ted Haggard, the evangelical pastor felled in a gay sex and drug scandal, is in the news once again. This time it involves no less than the pinnacle of conservative political targets: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

It’s been more than a month since Ted Haggard’s been in the news, but the fallen pastor is back now, thanks to filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi and HBO. Apparently on Jan. 29 they are going to show us what it was like being Haggard post-scandal, moving around from houses to motels and such during the period after the founder of New Life Church was brought down in a gay sex and meth scandal.

We can’t stop. We, as in the collective, can’t stop writing about him and we can’t stop reading about him. We can’t stop clicking on the name Ted Haggard whenever it appears on screen. We need an intervention, we need a restoration, and we need it fast. Lord save us from the clutches of Ted Haggard and his never-ending evangelical Christianity-meets-Leviticus-meets-Webmania train wreck.

wo years ago a male escort named Mike Jones appeared on a Denver radio talk show and dropped a bomb. He had this client, who, every month for three years, would come to his apartment, snort some meth and then they'd have sex. One day the light bulb snapped on: Jones' client was also a very influential pastor from Colorado Springs, who regularly preached against homosexuality. His name was Ted Haggard. And now, after falling fast and furious, Haggard, who preached over the weekend to a small congregation in Illinois, is back, claiming he was sexually abused when he was 7 years old.

Colorado evangelicals are on the political outs. At least that's what Salon.com reporter Mike Madden says. Madden visited Colorado Springs' legendary New Life Church on Sunday, and found that Pastor Brady Boyd was less-than-partisan during his sermon, a phenomenon that the Colorado Independent noted last month.

Denver male prostitute Mike Jones rallied at a Democratic National Convention support-the-troops counterprotest across Colfax Avenue from Civic Center Park in Denver on Sunday morning. Throngs of anti-war protesters gathered near the state Capitol, but Jones sided with a small pro-war faction. Jones gained fame last year for outing Ted Haggard, founder of Colorado Springs' evangelical New Life Church. Haggard reportedly paid Jones for sex and used meth in Jones' presence.

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