Hustling Haggard: 'Cured' of the Gay, the Disgraced Preacher Sets up New Church [View All]

Hustling Haggard: 'Cured' of the Gay, the Disgraced Preacher Sets up New Church
by Bill Berkowitz | May 26, 2010 - 11:50am

Similar to the way the Little Engine that Could huffed and puffed and was able to pull a long train over the mountain, disgraced preacher Ted Haggard has his little engine huffing and puffing these days. After accompanying his wife Gayle on a successful book tour earlier this year promoting her tell-some book Why I Stayed: My Choice to Love, Hope, and Forgive -- (co-written with Angela Hunt) and setting up a prayer shop in their Colorado Springs, Colorado home, the Haggards' have decided to continue their climb down from scandal mountain by starting up their own full-fledged church.

With Ted Haggard now "cured" of the gay and, by his own testimony, not having "had one compulsive thought or behavior" since he began therapy, Ted and Gayle Haggard recently took a bold step and "incorporated to become a church," the Colorado Spring Gazette reported. "Becoming St. James Church brings with it a tax structure that helps 'keep the accounting in order,' said Ted; the couple has been giving paid talks at U.S. churches for the past 18 months."

The church appears to be named after the passage "faith without works is dead" in the Book of James.

"I'm not surprised that Haggard is trying to return to the ministry," longtime Religious Right watcher Rob Boston told BuzzFlash in an e-mail. "He's really not qualified to do anything else."

More:
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/bill-berkowitz/29048/hustling-haggard-cured-of-the-gay-the-disgraced-preacher-sets-up-new-church

Hat-tip to: http://twitter.com/SmirkingChimp/status/14771808567




See also:

Meth and Man Ass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCEAu9bPwAU

SUPERTELEVANGELISTIC SEX-AND-DRUGS PSYCHOSIS
http://www.spaff.com/poesy/psychosis.html

"Ted Haggard Is Completely Heterosexual" by Roy Zimmerman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZmHC75FDqQ


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