Tag Archives: Ted Haggard

The Christian Post reports: The former megachurch pastor allegedly asked a young male church member to whom he was providing counseling to buy him methamphetamine and said he was planning to use it to celebrate his upcoming birthday. Rev. Kirk Sethman said when they got to Haggard’s house, Haggard gave him a briefcase to throw away. “He asked us to …

The Denver Gazette reports: National evangelical Christian powerhouse Ted Haggard, who founded New Life Church in Colorado Springs in 1984, grew it to 14,000 worshipers and was excommunicated in 2006 amid accusations that he paid a male escort for sex and was using methamphetamine, is facing new allegations from another congregation he started in 2010, Saint James Church. Two young …

Via Towleroad, here’s a compilation of some of the most notorious homophobes who have been outed in recent years.

Ted Haggard is going to trade spouses and small plastic baggies with Gary Busey for the upcoming season of Celebrity Wife Swap. Haggard has been “regrowing his ministry” after his hilarious 2006 downfall as the nation’s most prominent televangelist.

A Christian abstinence film with a cameo by Ted Haggard.

“The word marriage is a big deal to people of faith. We’ve made it sacred. That’s why I believe that churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples should have total freedom to have whatever types of unions they believe as godly. But I think that we as a democratic society, as a constitutional republic — if we don’t respect individual civil liberties, …

This awkward photo is from the current issue of GQ Magazine, where Haggard declared himself to be bisexual and confessed to snorting all that crystal meth he’d previously claimed to have purchased to throw away.

In a profile published by GQ Magazine, disgraced televangelist Ted Haggard announces that he’s bisexual. And that he and escort Mike Jones didn’t have sex, Jones just jerked him off. Which somehow isn’t sex in Haggard’s world. But about that crystal meth that Haggard famously claimed he bought to “throw away”? Yeah, he totally snorted it. “I think that probably, …

Disgraced pastor, rentboy patron, and accused meth-head Ted Haggard has landed a reality show. Ted Haggard is coming to TLC. The controversial Christian evangelical is getting his own reality project on the cable network. Ted Haggard: Scandalous will air as a one-hour special on the network. The special, produced by RelativityReal and debuting Jan. 16, follows Haggard as he announces …

Openly gay Pastor Troy Sanders responds to Haggard: “It didn’t take a scandal for me to come out and walk in truth!”

Yesterday disgraced televangelist Ted Haggard issued a statement of support for Atlanta’s Bishop Eddie Long, the anti-gay marriage activist now being sued by several young men for coercing them into sex. Ted Haggard cautioned today that no one should rush to judge the leader of an Atlanta megachurch accused of coercing three young men into sex. “Nobody’s guilty until the …

I met the hilarious Lizz Winstead (co-creator of the Daily Show) at Netroots Nation. She reads JMG! RELATED: Listen to a great interview Lizz did with Michelangelo Signorile at Netroots. (Mike interviewed me too, that goes up later this week.)

Ted Haggard now claims that he has “over-repented” for his encounters with rentboy Mike Jones, that he has no same-sex attraction, and that what occurred between he and Jones was merely “a massage gone awry.” “Ted Haggard,” Mr. Haggard said, “needs to be leading a church.” He acknowledged grave lapses of judgment in the episode he refers to as “my …

“I believe we are at the end of what church historians will, in the future, call the Billy Graham era. I believe we are also nearing the end of the ‘Religious Right’ representing Evangelicalism. My prayer is that over the next 10 years, there will be a Love Reformation and the Gospel will retake the Bible-believing church.” – Reformed rentboy …

Ted Haggard says he’s a different and better man since he was outed as a rentboy patron. He says that gays will be welcome in his new church, and that while he still opposes same-sex marriage, he now feels that gays should have “every civil right.”

Yesterday disgraced evangelist and rentboy patron Ted Haggard issued a press release teasing that he would make a “groundbreaking statement” today. Yeah, not all that groundbreaking. During his press conference at his Colorado Springs home, surrounded by his family, Haggard said his new church’s theme would be to “help other people go through the difficult times in their lives.” Everyone …

“I know exactly what it feels like to have both sides hating you bitterly. Some Christians will throw him away. Some gays will crusade against him. If there is any truth to the accusations, this may be his opportunity to find a safe environment where he can process the embarrassing, internal battle that conflicts with his Christian ideals. He may …

The world’s second-most famous rentboy patron (for the moment) has incorporated a new church in his hometown of Denver. Ted Haggard, the deposed founder of the New Life megachurch, told the Gazette newspaper on Tuesday that the incorporation of a new church on April 29 was done for accounting purposes — tracking reimbursement of travel costs as they speak at …

Gayle Haggard explains why she is confident that her husband is now completely heterosexual. She says that she does believe that homosexuality is a sin, but tap dances around the question as to whether she agrees with that pesky abomination thingy. But: “Honestly, I don’t feel that the government should be in the marriage business. I feel as though the …

Ted Haggard and his wife appeared on Oprah’s tribute show to cheated upon wives yesterday. According to Ted, he now lets his wife check in on his whereabouts via Facebook and Twitter so that she always knows he doesn’t have a cock in his mouth. Because you can only use the internet in the presence of heterosexuals. Former New Life …