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:”
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.”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.
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.As Bloggernista said:…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.
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.
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Do you think he and his wife still have sex?
Isn’t this just like letting the fox into the henhouse? Haggard’s free to continue his adultery, drug use and sexual hypocrisy around people who are dependent on this religious halfway house for meals and clothing, who wouldn’t want to risk losing basic support services if Haggard decided to exploit his role and recommence his previous behaviors.
“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.”
As if it wasn’t bad enough, now we also find out that Haggard is French.
“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.”
As if it wasn’t already bad enough, now we find out that Haggard is French.
Apparently he didn’t lose his balls when he lost face, huh? What a lowlife.
Wait. Doesn’t he have, like, five kids or something? Where the hell are they going to stay? Are they really moving the kids into a halfway house with ex-cons?
Or did the State of Colorado, in its mercy, remand the kids into the custody of the state?
But merciless, they’re saved ex-cons, so it’s OK.
A few months ago, some study came out reporting that conservatives give more to charity than liberals. This set people like Jonah Goldberg to crowing. I didn’t see the details, but I’d bet anyone a steak dinner that the “charity” contributions included churches and “causes” like this one.
I don’t see why this is filed under “Boggles the Mind”. This is how it’s always worked, and how it always will. Remember the Bakkers? And the rest of the disgraces but shortly thereafter redeemed televangelists of the past few decades? If anything, the publicity garnered by this whole affair will end up in a few years’ time having propelled the good Reverend to new heights of popularity.
Sure, the righteous Rev. Haggard was temporarily laid low by the Devil in the form of the gay meth-dealing prostitute that he had sex with repeatedly even though he didn’t really want to. But now the good Lawd done healed him, and he knows better than anyone else the evils of the gay agenda, the plot to destroy your family, so you should listen to him. Oh, but the heathen commie liberals are trying to destroy the great man, so send your checks to the church now and be raptured up to heaven during the second coming which is just around the corner, we swear, not like the last four hundred times the preachers said that it was just about to happen.
“God has forgiven me, why can’t you?”
“That makes sense. Luther, send him little Billy’s College Fund.”
- from Bloom County, the “Fundamentally Oral Bill” series.
If he’s completely het, I guess that means my gaydar is out of calibration.
Excuse me a moment, just have to mute the darn thing….
Thank you, PhysioProf.
He’s only doing, on a smaller scale, what Jimmy Swaggart did after he was caught beating off with a hooker in a New Orleans hotel. It’s still despicable, but it’s certainly nothing new.
Pam, you must have a stronger stomach than I to be able to keep tabs on these jerks. I certainly appreciate your work, though. It always makes me smile when one of these wingnuts is exposed, despite their heterosexuality therapy or whatever.
This is why when I tell people I live in Colorado Springs, I have to say, “But I’m not one of THOSE people.”
Overcome. OVERCOME!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFo8NGO4nTA
If I were a “conservative” I would plan to make a pile of money by starting a pool on when Haggard gets busted for meth, trying to use one of the people at the halfway house as a connection.
Income support? Because the winger hierarchy has no money to funnel to him and he didn’t bother to save for retirement or his children’s college educations?
If all it took to go straight was three weeks of therapy, why didn’t Pastor Ted do that before he got caught?
6079, I tried to find a link to THAT SAME CARTOON before I posted! It fits exactly this circumstance.
Now if they just don’t rail against penguin lust…
I wonder if rentboys.com has noticed any increased activity in the Phoenix area.
But ted haggard is completely heterosexual!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZmHC75FDqQ
“If all it took to go straight was three weeks of therapy, why didn’t Pastor Ted do that before he got caught?”
That is a totally excellent point. It’s so excellent, I wonder why I haven’t heard anyone else make it. And it’s yet further proof (as if we needed any) that even the fundies know the whole “gay cure” thing is bogus.
Haggard clearly has no sense of shame or decency. I can’t imagine why his wife is staying with him. And their poor kids. They don’t really have any say in the matter.
He can’t hold out forever and I doubt he’ll just depend on masturbation for the rest of his life. I’m sure he’ll relapse into “sin” sure enough.
I can’t wait. You know he’ll get caught.
“If all it took to go straight was three weeks of therapy, why didn’t Pastor Ted do that before he got caught?”
Because Satan had a death grip on poor Teddy’s soul and he just couldn’t do anything about it! He was so lost that he couldn’t even see the right path!
Remember: if you’re a man, it’s never your fault.
Thank Gawd he’s not on my team any more!
*bats Haggard back over the net to the straight girls*
Funny, that episode of Seinfeld was on tonight. We really don’t need a new shortstop. Ladies, he’s all yours.
I wonder if rentboys.com has noticed any increased activity in the Phoenix area.
Oh, I think he’s planning to keep it to the parolees this time. With all the “recovering alcoholics, drug addicts, prostitutes, and “other broken people,” handy, I’m sure he’ll find someone. Which is disgustingly an abuse of power, because they won’t have a lot of choice about it.
It IS the fox guarding the henhouse, and the fox took the job specifically to get, well, really at the cocks rather than the hens. And I don’t think I trust his wife, either.
He was making 130 fucking thousand dollars as a fucking minister. What the flying fuck do people think that the people who would take a job, whose supposed purpose is to get people get to God, are not going to be greedy lying son’s of bitches. (not to say that their mothers may not have had good reason to be bitches if they raised son’s like these)
Also, I’m wondering who would like to have sex with that girl in the the bullseye add. She doesn’t have any hips. What is it with the fascination with boyish looking girls.
I say shame an any idiots who would actually FALL for this horseshit, and “help us monthly for two years.” People dumb enough to fork over the cash to support this fuckwart and his family–THAT’S who’s going to need to be forgiven.
Yeah, Ted Haggard is completely heterosexual…now that his wife’s learned to use a strap-on.
Nah, you keep him.
*Bats Haggard back over the net*
Oh shit, the shuffle, er, shuttle cock is stuck in the net! Who’s the referee and can we get a ruling? (since neither side wants to touch him)
It gets better Dan Savage has noted. It seems that the charity Ted is using has been defunct since February and that the principle person behind the charity might be a sex offender.
hbsweet:
Nope. Anyone who falls for such an obvious scam deserves whatever they get.
All Hail Emperor Dan.
You’re absolutely right.
BTW, 99 Restaurant now serves Banana Foster pie: it is a delicious addition to Your Grandness’s subjects.
Ted Haggard is completely heterosexual!
Well….maybe.