Ted Haggard's Back, He's "Completely Hetero" and He's Begging for Cash
Ted Haggard...experiencing something.
This post, written by Pam Spaulding, originally appeared on Pam's House Blend
Good grief. Asking for a handout as his $138K paycheck from his former church is cut off after the end of the year. From Colorado Confidential, "Ted Haggard's Cash-for-Heaven Offer:"
If you haven't had enough of the Haggard/New Life Church saga, this week KRDO Channel 13 in Colorado Springs aired a story about a letter that Haggard sent to consumer reporter Tak Landrock, letting him know of the Haggard family plans to move into the Phoenix Dream Center to minister to ex-cons, recovering alcoholics, drug addicts, prostitutes, and "other broken people," Haggard writes. "I identify."
Baaron Pittenger, assistant news director of the ABC affiliate, says that Landrock has been communicating with the fallen former pastor of New Life Church via e-mail. The station broadcast the story about Haggard's new life and request for donations on the 10 p.m. news last night. Pittenger says he's not aware that there's been much response to the story.
...Haggard, the charismatic former head of the National Association of Evangelicals, was fired last Nov. 4 from the 14,000-member New Life Church that he founded after he admitted buying meth and getting massages from a male escort. After three weeks of intensive "restoration" therapy, Haggard claimed he was "completely heterosexual"; he and his family subsequently moved to Arizona.
He and his wife are moving to a halfway house in Phoenix where Ted, in his letter to Landrock, says he is "willing to counsel some of the men and to teach the group from time to time. The woman directing the ministry to women invited Gayle to teach and minister to the women."
A snippet of the shameless fundraising pitch sent to Landrock:
It looks as though it will take two years for us to have adequate earning power again, so we are looking for people who will help us monthly for two years. During that time we will continue as full time students, and then, when I graduate, we won't need outside support any longer.
...Thank you so much. We feel our move into the Dream Center is the next step God would have us take. Any help we can get with this will be greatly appreciated and, I believe, rewarded in heaven.
As Bloggernista said:
It takes some serious gaul to get busted for buying drugs, cheating on your wife with a male hooker all while preaching family values and anti-gay rhetoric from the pulpit and then come back after a mere three weeks in therapy to claim that you are now "completely heterosexual" and continue to ask others to support you through religious contributions.
3 comments:
I am weak on US pop reference.
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Aha, I see.
Hilarious really. But, I mean, good for him, you gotta earn a living somehow right?
the stupid end up working....
PS how come you got no action on this blog. you were a big superstar on LL.
//fan
Because they geese just like trashing people. When they actually have to do some reading and realize that the things that I say are backed up by facts, then the debate is not so fun.
The LLers don't want the truth or to look at issues critically. They want to shout and hear each others voices bouncing back and forth to reinforce their easily exposed idiocies.
"Hilarious really. But, I mean, good for him, you gotta earn a living somehow right?"
Right you are, anonymous.
The root problem is that god does not exist. Haggard has fallen into the gutter and resembles the homeless street beggars Denver has such notorious trouble with.
Haggard is flailing shamelessly as a dirty, pathetic clown, with strictly parasitic intentions. I believe the inmates I supervise in prison have more dignity and self-respect than he does.
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