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Title: Haggard now "completely heterosexual"
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chron.com
URL Source: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4529647.html
Published: Feb 6, 2007
Author: AP
Post Date: 2007-02-06 11:41:51 by Arete
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Comments: 19
DENVER — One of four ministers who oversaw three weeks of intensive counseling for the Rev. Ted Haggard said the disgraced minister emerged convinced that he is "completely heterosexual." Haggard also said his sexual contact with men was limited to the former male prostitute who came forward with sexual allegations, the Rev. Tim Ralph of Larkspur told The Denver Post for a story in Tuesday's edition. "He is completely heterosexual," Ralph said. "That is something he discovered. It was the acting-out situations where things took place. It wasn't a constant thing." Ralph said the board spoke with people close to Haggard while investigating his claim that his only extramarital sexual contact happened with Mike Jones. The board found no evidence to the contrary. "If we're going to be proved wrong, somebody else is going to come forward, and that usually happens really quickly," he said. "We're into this thing over 90 days and it hasn't happened." Haggard resigned as president of the National Association of Evangelicals last year after allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced. He was also forced out from the 14,000 New Life Church that he founded years ago in his basement after Jones alleged Haggard paid him for sex and sometimes used methamphetamine when they were together. Haggard, who is married, has publicly admitted to "sexual immorality." Haggard said in an e-mail Sunday, his first communication in three months to church members, that he and his wife, Gayle, plan to pursue master's degrees in psychology. The e-mail said the family hasn't decided where to move but that they were considering Missouri and Iowa. Another oversight board member, the Rev. Mike Ware of Westminster, said the group recommended the move out of town and the Haggards agreed. "This is a good place for Ted," Ware said. "It's hard to heal in Colorado Springs right now. It's like an open wound. He needs to get somewhere he can get the wound healed." It was also the oversight board that strongly urged Haggard to go into secular work.
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#1. To: Arete (#0)
He's still a poofter.
"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." -- Marshall McLuhan, after Alexander Pope and William Blake.
Then it's no more weekly conferences with Bush for him. ROTFLOL!! Kooks!!
He's just on the down-low.
Did anyone else notice the two Superbowl coaches were formerly defensive coordinators? Teddy has been cured! It's a miracle! Richard W.
But remember ... it isn't homosexuality when Republicans blow each other.
Ralph said the board spoke with people close to Haggard while investigating his claim that his only extramarital sexual contact happened with Mike Jones. The board found no evidence to the contrary. ROTFLMAO. Fundies will believe any goddamn thing. What a bunch of dull tools.
the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal bread.
Cured or not, he still is a "creepy bastard", indeed!
Nothing a little more prayer can't fix. LOL Richard W.
It's doubtful that anyone will be able to prick holes in the stiff defenses you've erected before them....
Can these faux religious conmen get any more ridiculous?
I guess he finally had a bunch of his pastoral homies Gang Save him.
#2. To: Arete (#0)
Ted Haggard said the disgraced minister emerged convinced that he is "completely heterosexual."
#3. To: YertleTurtle (#1)
He's still a poofter.
#4. To: BAC (#2)
Kooks!!
#5. To: Arete (#0)
#6. To: Arete (#0)
"He is completely heterosexual," Ralph said. "That is something he discovered. It was the acting-out situations where things took place. It wasn't a constant thing."
#7. To: Arete (#0)
#8. To: Brian S (#7)
"creepy bastard"
#9. To: Arete (#0)
"If we're going to be proved wrong, somebody else is going to come forward, and that usually happens really quickly," he said. "We're into this thing over 90 days and it hasn't happened."
#10. To: Arete (#0)
#11. To: Arete (#0)
 | This country's priorities are all fucked up. |
#12. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#11)
Yo, why you dissin' the Pastoral Homies? East Side, baybee!
pastoral homies Gang
the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal bread.
#13. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#11)
gotta bump this one
I guess he finally had a bunch of his pastoral homies Gang Save him.
#14. To: Burkeman1 (#10)
Ridiculous is in the eye of the moron who goes to the church.
Can these faux religious conmen get any more ridiculous?
the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal bread.
#15. To: Arete (#0) (Edited)
Boy, that's some goooood work. Completely cured, is he?
three weeks of intensive counseling
"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win." --Mahatma K. Gandhi
#16. To: angle (#15)
HEAL! Richard W.
#17. To: lodwick (#13)
“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"
#18. To: Arete (#0)
24/7 exposure to pictures of Barney Frank cured him.
three weeks of intensive counseling
I've already said too much.
#19. To: Eoghan (#17)
very very fukking funny
"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win." --Mahatma K. Gandhi
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