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A Colorado Springs television station has obtained an email sent by disgraced former televangelist Ted Haggard to a personal friend in which Haggard for the first time admits having had sex with escort Mike Jones and having used unspecified drugs on several occasions. But considering what the thus far unimpeached Mike Jones has said, Haggard’s email doesn’t tell the “hole” …

Mike Jones is performing a one-man show in Denver about his exposure of Ted Haggard. Would you sacrifice everything to expose the hypocrisy of a man who influenced millions of believers? Naked Before God is the riveting true story of Mike Jones by Mike Jones, the man who revealed the truth about Ted Haggard’s secret life. Ted Haggard – minister, …

The new pastor at Denver’s New Life Church, former home to Ted Haggard, has issued a press release announcing that Haggard has requested to leave the team created to “restore” him as a Jeebus-fearing breeder and that as Haggard’s restoration is “incomplete”, he is not welcome to return to New Life. It appears that the best brainwashers in the business …

Colorado Springs police have reported that they recovered a copy of Mike Jones’ autobiography from the vehicle of Colorado church shooter Matthew Murray. In December, Murray killed himself with a shot to the head after killing two people at the Youth With A Mission ministry in Arvada, Colorado, then killing two congregants at Denver’s New Life Church, once home to …

JMG reader Fritz tipped me off to gay singer Jay Spears’ new clip, Smak Dem Christians Down, which is amusing rip on the false notion that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. Note: the opening of the clip features a jab at Ted Haggard that might not be safe-for-work. You may remember Spears’ great 2005 track, I …

More evidence about Matthew Murray has been released to the press: DENVER — Among the items taken from a search of gunman Matthew Murray’s home was a picture of former New Life pastor Ted Haggard, according to police documents released Wednesday. Murray lived in the Englewood home in with his father, mother and brother. The family was very devout and …

The young man who last Sunday shot and killed two people at a youth ministry training center, then killed two more and himself at Colorado’s New Life Church (Ted Haggard’s former home), was a cast out from the youth ministry, probably because he failed their attempts to make him “ex-gay”. As noted by Richard Rothstein, Matthew Murray, 24, posted on …

Yes, it’s been one year. Check out Colorado Confidential’s excellent recap of the entire delicious mess.

When the Larry Craig scandal first unfolded, Mike Jones told me that Sen. Larry Craig had been an escorting client of his. I asked Mike if he could prove his claim, but he said that while he didn’t have voice mail messages to backup his claim, as he did with Ted Haggard, he would nevertheless come forward IF Craig did …

I ripped this bit of hilarity off from Queerty, who got it from a “particularly clever, presumably unemployed, bored reader.” Well done, mystery man. Please come forward for some well-earned credit.

“Oh, man. What a great day. I fucking live for the day when every asshole out there bilking gullible Christians out of their hard-earned dough—from the Nazi pope on down—is told the same damn thing: Get a fucking job, you parasite.” – Dan Savage, responding to the statement by Ted Haggard’s “overseers” that Haggard “won’t be fundraising for a Monument …

The head of the halfway house that Ted Haggard claims to be moving into says he had no knowledge of Haggard’s plan, saying of Haggard’s email plea to former parishioners, “That was something that was totally unbeknownst to us when he sent it.” Additionally, the registered sex offender that runs the charity that Haggard requested donations be sent to, Paul …

Adding another level of slime to the affair, Dan Savage emailed me on Friday to hip me that one of his readers has uncovered that the charity that Ted Haggard directed his former flock to donate to on his behalf, Families With A Mission, was “voluntarily dissolved” in February of this year and that the “registered agent” of the charity, …

Ted “Completely Heterosexual” Haggard and his family are moving into a Phoenix halfway-house where they will minister “in whatever capacity asked, whether it’s cleaning the building, hosting a visiting group, attending a meeting, or facilitating a study.” And despite that his former employers, the New Life Church, agreed to pay his $138K salary through 2007, Haggard has issued his former …

Courtesy of Seven Stories Press, today’s Swag Tuesday prize is a hardback copy of Mike Jones’ brand new autobiography, The Art Of Ted Haggard’s Fall: I Had To Say Something (cowriter: Sam Gallegos). The book ships this week. I can’t imagine that any regular reader of this or most any other gay blog would not know who Mike Jones is, …

Let’s start the week out with a self-satisfied snicker, via political troubadour Roy Zimmerman. Wait for the super-clever line around 2:30, I laughed so loud I kicked my speaker plugs out. Seriously, I’ve been laughing like Mutley all morning. And thanks very much to the faithful reader who sent this in. UPDATE: Check out Roy Zimmerman’s other, equally hysterical songs, …

Mike Jones has managed to get his “Ted Haggard Massage Table” relisted on eBay. And now Rev. Karen Booth, the fundie that got it pulled the first time, in once again calling on her minions to barrage eBay with complaints. From her site, Transforming Congregations: MEMO TO EBAY From: Rev. Karen BoothTo: Customer RelationsRe: Offensive Listing To Whom It May …

Mike Jones emailed me last night to tell me that after letting it run for 9 days, eBay has pulled his “Ted Haggard massage table” for “violation of charity policy”. Before the auction posted, Jones spent 30 minutes on the phone with an Ebay representative ensuring that he met their criteria. But the fundies rallied to deluge eBay with complaints …

Last night, Law & Order did another one of their “ripped from the headlines” shows, featuring an married evangelical minister (played by Tom Arnold) who was secretly hiring rent boys and doing crystal meth. The especially satisfying twist was that the minister enjoyed booty bumps. The rent boy (nowhere as cute as Mike Jones) was this close to explaining how …

Over at the Huffington Post, Susie Bright’s Ted Haggard Betting Pool is taking bets on how long it will be before Ted Haggard gets caught sucking another cock. Betting starts at $5, with 50% of the proceeds going to the winner and 50% going to LYRIC, the San Francisco-based “young, loud, & proud” gay youth group. Susie Bright rocks! If …