The Compleat Ted Haggard Sex, Drugs And Hush Money Timeline

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Ted Haggard 2.0

Dec 1, 2009 12:00 PM

Still sexually confused (but not gay) ex-megapastor Ted Haggard is preaching again—and his old friends, James Dobson among them, are not happy about it. Forgiveness only goes so far, apparently, in...

TV bounty-hunter sidekick probes Haggard scandal

Jan 29, 2009

Colorado Springs bail bondsman Bobby Brown is now on a self-appointed case to smoke out the unnamed victims of ex-New Life Church Pastor Ted Haggard’s sexual misconduct.

Haas says New Life reneged on payoff amid new sex-drug allegations

Jan 27, 2009

The latest sordid episode of Pastor Ted Haggard’s sex-and-drug peccadilloes now includes allegations that New Life Church reneged on its offer to provide financial comfort to a young male parishion...

Mike Jones speaks out on latest scandal

Jan 26, 2009

Mike Jones, the Denver man who brought national evangelical leader Pastor Ted Haggard to his knees, released a video yesterday criticizing New Life Church for paying “hush money” in a now-revealed ...

New gay sex, hush money scandal hits New Life, Haggard

Jan 23, 2009

Fresh revelations have emerged that disgraced evangelical leader Ted Haggard had a previously undisclosed cash-for-sex relationship with a young male New Life Church volunteer and that the church p...

"Trials of Ted Haggard" coming to HBO

Dec 18, 2008

It’s been more than a month since Ted Haggard was in the news, but the fallen pastor is back, thanks to filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi and HBO. Apparently, they are going to show us what it was like be...

Public says: Make Ted Haggard go away

Nov 26, 2008

One has to look no further than the most recent AP story in the Gazette to see just how badly the people are hurting over the media’s continued insistence on rehashing the minutiae of Haggard’s eve...

Haggard re-emerges at small Illinois church

Nov 12, 2008

After falling fast and furious, Haggard, who preached over the weekend to a small congregation in Illinois, is back, claiming he was sexually abused when he was 7 years old.

Salon.com: New Life goes nonpartisan

Nov 3, 2008

Brady Boyd is taking a more watered-down tack to election-year politics. Unlike church founder Ted Haggard, who was a vocal supporter of President George Bush, and is credited, along with Focus on ...

New Life pastor won't back McCain

Oct 9, 2008

A New York Times blogger discovers the news is not good for John McCain in Colorado Springs, where ... the pastor who replaced former GOP heavyweight Ted Haggard leading one of the city’s largest m...

"Gay American" Jones rallies with war hawks

Aug 24, 2008

Denver male prostitute Mike Jones rallied at a Democratic National Convention support-the-troops counterprotest across Colfax Avenue from Civic Center Park in Denver on Sunday morning.

Pastor Ted returns to Colorado

Jun 26, 2008

The fallen pastor of New Life Church has returned to his home in Colorado Springs. The Associated Press actually released a story detailing how Haggard admitted in an eight-month old e-mail that ma...

Haggard quits restoration team

Feb 5, 2008

Technically, it only took three weeks of intensive “restoration” a full year ago to make Ted Haggard a “complete heterosexual.” But on Tuesday night, the new pastor of the Colorado Springs megachur...

New Life celebrates new pastor

Aug 28, 2007

As Ted Haggard’s cash-for-heaven scheme quickly dissolved around him this week, the church that the fallen pastor started 23 years ago in his basement, and is now the largest in Colorado, has selec...

Ted, convicted sex offender pen fundraising plea

Aug 23, 2007

Haggard sends out a bizarre "cash-for-heaven" letter asking for money to help his family with the checks directed to a sketchy charity run by a convicted sex offender.