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Created by dipity on Jan 25, 2009
Last updated: 10/19/10 at 07:39 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 the world of far-right evangelicalism.
http://www.westerncitizen.com/1409/the-2nd-coming-of-ted-haggard/
Fallen pastor Ted Haggard is coming to Albuquerque to speak at New Life City this Friday through Saturday, writes our New Mexico Independent colleague Matthew Reichbach.
http://coloradoindependent.com/26926/haggard-to-speak-at-albuquerque-church-on-struggles-with-confused-sexuality
No, it’s not an April Fool’s prank. Ted Haggard and his faithful wife, Gayle, finally get their day in court. The former top evangelist, whose “brush with both homosexuality and narcotics” led to a fall from grace — not to mention some undoubtedly uncomfortable pillow talk with his blindsided wife — earned an undisclosed sum last month when the Haggards taped two sessions of the popular syndicated TV show Divorce Court.
http://coloradoindependent.com/25484/its-ted-vs-gayle-as-haggards-discuss-their-toxic-marriage-on-divorce-court
Fallen evangelical Pastor Ted Haggard — brought to his knees more than two years ago by a taste for gay sex and crystal meth — continues on the comeback trail with wife Gayle in tow, taping an interview Wednesday on the television show “Divorce Court,” set to air April 1. What, he couldn’t book “The Biggest Loser”?
http://coloradoindependent.com/24584/disgraced-pastor-ted-haggard-devoted-wife-appear-on-divorce-court
The verdicts are in following a whirlwind week covering the ever-widening sex, drug and hush money scandal involving Ted Haggard and New Life Church.
http://coloradoindependent.com/20595/christian-writers-chastise-praise-ted-haggards-sins
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.
http://coloradoindependent.com/20442/tv-bounty-hunter-sidekick-investigates-haggard
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 parishioner who was the object of the evangelical leader’s lewd affections.
http://coloradoindependent.com/20225/haggard-sex-scandal-gets-weirder-and-lewder-by-the-minute
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 tryst with a young male church member and ignoring his claims of more victims. He also wants an apology from the church for being treated like “a useless piece of meat.”
http://coloradoindependent.com/20084/mike-jones-speaks-out-on-latest-haggardnew-life-scandal
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 paid him hush money.
http://coloradoindependent.com/20014/new-gay-sex-scandal-embroils-new-life-and-ted-haggard
Controversy magnet Ted Haggard, the evangelical pastor felled in a gay sex and drug scandal, is in the news once again. This time it involves no less than the pinnacle of conservative political targets: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
http://coloradoindependent.com/19700/pelosi-to-pastor-ted-what-words-of-comfort
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 being Haggard post-scandal, when the founder of the New Life Church was moving from houses to motels during the period after he was brought down in a gay sex and meth scandal.
http://coloradoindependent.com/17903/the-trials-of-ted-haggard-coming-soon-to-a-tv-near-you
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 every move.
http://coloradoindependent.com/16130/a-prayer-to-jesus-make-ted-haggard-go-away
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.
http://coloradoindependent.com/15060/hes-alive-ted-haggards-back-at-it
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 the Family founder James Dobson, with fueling the Republican evangelical fire in the past few years.
http://coloradoindependent.com/13775/saloncom-new-life-church-not-influential-this-election-season
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 mega-churches is staying on the sidelines, urging his flock to vote “for any political party.”
http://coloradoindependent.com/10960/bad-news-for-mccain-in-colorado-springs-times-blogger-finds
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.
http://coloradoindependent.com/5173/gay-sex-worker-mike-jones-at-pro-war-counter-protest
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 male escort Mike Jones did indeed masturbate him.
http://coloradoindependent.com/4024/ted-haggard-comes-back-to-colorado-gross-e-mail-surfaces
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 megachurch that Haggard founded has announced that Haggard is quitting the team — and that “the process of restoring Ted Haggard is incomplete.
http://coloradoindependent.com/3303/ted-haggard-quits-new-life-restoration-team
A year ago an unknown male escort named Mike Jones appeared on a Denver radio talk show and dropped a bomb. He had this client, who, every month for three years, would come to his apartment, snort some meth and then they’d have sex. One day the light bulb snapped on: Jones’ client was also a very influential pastor from Colorado Springs, who regularly preached against homosexuality. His name was Ted Haggard.
http://coloradoindependent.com/2930/a-year-ago-ted-haggard-is-the-farthest-thing-from-a-homosexual
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 selected a new pastor.
http://coloradoindependent.com/2574/amid-the-latest-haggard-scandal-a-new-chapter
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.
http://coloradoindependent.com/2548/ted-haggards-cash-for-heaven-offer
While New Life celebrates the hiring of new pastor, Brady Boyd, the Haggards continue to loom large -- especially their $715,000 house which is curiously not on the real estate market.
http://coloradoindependent.com/2455/teds-gone-but-the-haggard-house-remains
Several members of Soulforce plan to visit the Colorado Springs mega-church that Pastor Ted built, where they plan to tell all who will listen about the “psychological and spiritual harm” they experienced in “ex-gay” programs.
http://coloradoindependent.com/2294/soulforce-to-storm-new-life-church
After initially being rejected for appearances by big bookstore chains and an independent bookstore owner, Jones’ publisher has announced two upcoming gigs in the conservative city where Haggard founded his New Life Church, the largest in Colorado.
http://coloradoindependent.com/2260/haggard-outer-to-appear-in-c-springs-after-all
Our sister site in Minnesota does a roundup of Jones' book tour in the Twin Cities where he talked about how his family barely talks to him anymore, how shoddily he’s been treated by some in the GLTB community, and his famous past client, former Pastor Ted Haggard.
http://coloradoindependent.com/2206/mike-in-minneapolis
New Life Church leaders announce they're still in the process of recruiting a new pastor -- seven months after Haggard was fired.
http://coloradoindependent.com/2188/new-life-still-praying-and-processing
Highlights of the Rocky Mountain News' blog Q&A with Mike Jones before his Tattered Cover book signing.
http://coloradoindependent.com/2179/mike-jones-gets-ready-to-read
LGBT-friendly book store in Colorado Springs refuses to carry Jones' tell-all book. "...we are selective about the new books we carry and the authors we promote. After reading I Had To Say Something, we found the book invasive, exploitive and not well-written. We won’t be carrying the book, recommending it or promoting its author."
http://coloradoindependent.com/2163/nix-on-the-jones-book-invasive-exploitive-and-not-well-written
We get an advance copy of Jones' book that shares graphic details of sex, Ted and a stars ‘n’ stripes thong.
http://coloradoindependent.com/2077/sex-ted-and-the-stars-n-stripes-thong
Interim senior pastor delivers a bad news report to New Life parishoners: attendance at the church, which previously claimed 14,000 members, has “dropped 20 to 25 percent soon after November, which is where we’ve continued to stay. Offerings have remained consistent at 8 to 10 percent below this time last year.”
http://coloradoindependent.com/2079/steering-a-parked-car
Nearly six months after the gregarious pastor was fired in the midst of a drugs and gay sex scandal - that the field of potential replacement candidates has been narrowed to 12.
http://coloradoindependent.com/1825/12-men-vying-to-replace-haggard
Coming in at #98, The Boston Phoenix calls Pastor Ted the “Colorado male-escort patron” among its 100 Unsexiest Men of 2007.
http://coloradoindependent.com/1760/pastor-ted-not-as-unsexy-as-newt
The auction of the Ted Haggard Massage Table was abruptly canceled after a Delaware ministry threatened to launch a boycott of eBay.
http://coloradoindependent.com/1593/pastor-ted-ebay-auction-nixed
Jones puts the infamous purple massage table on eBay to raise money for a local HIV/AIDS charity. Religious groups eventually pressure eBay to stop the auction.
http://coloradoindependent.com/1541/pastor-teds-purple-massage-table
A 10 percent drop in its multi-million dollar incomes forces New Life to lay off 44 workers or about 12 percent of its workforce.
http://coloradoindependent.com/1491/low-tithe-at-new-life
The Overseers update the New Life congregation on Haggard's sexuality, the search for a new sin-free pastor and allegations of other church members "struggling with unrelated sin issues."
http://coloradoindependent.com/1428/stay-in-the-ark
Mike Jones talks about outing Pastor Ted, getting death threats, New Life as 'Westworld" and selling his purple massage table on eBay.
http://coloradoindependent.com/1381/mike-jones-and-the-art-of-haggards-downfall
A letter from Haggard to his supporters is leaked to the press.
http://coloradoindependent.com/1350/ted-haggard-is-rising-again
Mike Jones - the gay prostitute that outed Pastor Ted - attended a New Life service yesterday, where he was reportedly welcomed with open arms by grateful congregants.
http://coloradoindependent.com/1312/new-year-at-new-life
Haggard utters the famous line: "...evangelicals have the best sex life of any other group" on Alexandra Pelosi's HBO documentary "Friends of God."
http://coloradoindependent.com/1292/when-the-fires-start-burning
James Dobson, the founder and chairman of Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs, talks to CNN’s Larry King Live about the Haggard scandal.
http://coloradoindependent.com/1025/excising-dobsons-exercise-in-exorcism
Pro-GLBT religious organization Soulforce demands the New Life overseers stop Haggard's gay reparative therapy.
http://coloradoindependent.com/1003/soulforce-to-focus-free-pastor-ted
Two competing ballot measures -- one to approve the and other to deny -- domestic partner benefits get added scrutiny during salacious Haggard sex and drugs scandal that breaks 5 days before Election Day. Haggard was involved in the anti-campaign.
http://coloradoindependent.com/898/domestic-partnership-ballot-fall-out-uncertain-in-haggard-scandal
In a letter to the congregation Haggard said he’s turning himself over to James Dobson of Focus on the Family and a couple other pastors for a “thorough analysis of my mental, spiritual, emotional and physical life. They will guide me through a program with the goal of healing and restoration for my life, my marriage and my family.”
http://coloradoindependent.com/921/a-powerful-group-of-sheep
Tips to New Life Church members on how to deal with the media -- prepared in 2005 by Ted Haggard following a controversial trip to Israel that was expected to attract media attention.
http://coloradoindependent.com/908/new-life-church-dont-be-spooky-or-weird
Sunday morning in a letter penned by Ted Haggard is read at New Life Church services:
“I am so sorry.”
“I am guilty of sexual immorality.”
“I am a deceiver and a liar. There is a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I’ve been warring against it all of my adult life.”
http://coloradoindependent.com/895/updated-timeline-pastor-teds-changing-story
Now that Pastor Ted Haggard has admitted to buying meth and getting a massage from a male prostitute, the White House is downplaying the disgraced religious leader’s close connections to the Bush administration.
http://coloradoindependent.com/904/pastor-who
An employment discrimination law attorney weighs in on the questions before the National Association of Evangelicals on Ted Haggard's continued leadership.
http://coloradoindependent.com/901/the-smoke-filled-chapel-a-glimpse-into-naes-discussions-on-haggard
After Pastor Ted was fired, Rev. Michael Ware, a member of the New Life Church oversight board, said Haggard admitted Thursday to “sexually immoral conduct.”
http://coloradoindependent.com/906/pastor-ted-fired
Cornered by reporters in his driveway, Haggard admits in front of his wife and kids that he bought meth from Jones -- but threw it away. He maintains he got a massage but did not have sex.
http://coloradoindependent.com/889/a-new-dawn-breaks-for-pastor-ted
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