Haggard’s Hooker: I Wanted to Sway Elections
The gay male prostitute who serviced disgraced evangelist Ted Haggard (above) has disclosed all manner of intimate details to a radio show host. The tawdry bits aside, the interesting thing here is that the prostitute readily admits he timed his disclosure to help the cause of gay marriage on the Nov. 7 election ballots.
The gay male prostitute who serviced disgraced evangelist Ted Haggard has disclosed all manner of intimate details to a radio show host.
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Interviewer: You felt that you had to do something before November 7th, if it was going to impact Amendment 43 and the elections.
Michael Jones [Haggard’s escort]: And I don’t know if it’s going to change votes at all. I don’t know what the outcome will be, it coming out before the election but I Had to point out the hypocrisy, that here is a gentleman enjoying all the benefits of marriage, all the rights and doesn’t want two other people of the same sex who love each other to have those same rights and yet he can cheat on his wife.
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Ted Haggard, who built an evangelical empire whose influence reached all the way to the Bush White House before a gay sex scandal brought it all crashing down in 2006, is back at the pulpit at his new church in Colorado Springs.
The former escort who blew the whistle on Ted Haggard's homosexuality explains why he felt morally compelled to come forward, what the fallout has been and what he feels is the real tragedy of the situation.
In this clip from the new HBO documentary "Friends of God," the Rev. Ted Haggard engages in some loose sex talk with parishioners. (Haggard is, of course, the former president of the National Association of Evangelicals who famously frequented a gay male sex worker.)
Proving again that there's no hypocrisy immune to T-shirt satirization, CafePress.com is selling Ted Haggard garb with aphorisms like the one above. (h/t: Chris from Hollywood Ghetto)
In a letter read on Sunday to his former congregation, Ted Haggard admitted to sexual immorality and deception. Though Haggard initially denied having sex with a former male escort, the oversight board charged with investigating the matter decided that allowing a gay man to massage him was reason enough for the pastor's dismissal. (h/t: Huffington Post)
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