THE hapless wife of lying hypocrite pastor Ted Haggard says she “prayed” that her husband would overcome his homosexuality – but clearly her prayers fell on deaf ears.
Ted Haggard still has things on his mind ...
Gayle Haggard, speaking on the Oprah Winfrey Show today, said she was shocked when Haggard, notorious for his anti-gay preaching, first told her the truth about the allegations against him.
The first words out of my mouth were, ‘Who are you?’
Gayle Haggard also said her husband told her early in their 30-year marriage that he
Struggled with some thoughts … I felt it was the thing that could destroy Ted if he gave in to it, so I prayed for him, and I felt as though he was winning the battle.
Haggard, 52, resigned as President of the National Association of Evangelicals and New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, after a male prostitute exposed him. Haggard confessed to “sexual immorality”.
According to this report, the scandal widened in recent days with disclosures that Haggard also admitted an “inappropriate” relationship with a church volunteer, Grant Haas, who was 22 at the time.
Haas revealed that Haggard performed a sex act in front of him and sent him illicit text messages. He informed New Life Church shortly after the rent boy scandal broke, and the two parties reached a settlement in 2007 that included a confidentiality agreement.
He said he decided to break the agreement because Haggard has been heavily promoting a documentary about his time in exile for the church.
We await further revelations about this hypocritical homophobe’s tawdry sex life with bated breath ….
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January 29th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
I reckon that every single one of those queerophobic godfreaks is in fact a secret fudge-nudger.
The same goes for those old tarts who wrote their Book of Nonsense.
It’s just an opinion but it works for me.
Gis a kiss Bob!
January 29th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
You know something. I was going to write a post suggesting that Haggard is a victim of religion who really deserves more pity than distain. That somewhere down the line, probably from an early age, it has been drilled into him that just accepting who he is – a man who is attracted to men – is WRONG, etc.
On second thoughts, fuck that right in the eye. The ones who deserve the sympathy are the gay people in his State, especially the younger ones, who have to put up with this pernicious hypocrite demonizing them to save his own skin out of a pathological need to be fawned over by a congregation.
January 29th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
I bet Bob has a picture of him next to his bed. Naked. Next to the picture of Jesus. Naked.
January 29th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
What you have all failed to realise is that the image in Ted’s head is actually Prof Dawkins in his new red Speedo’s.
January 29th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Wacky theory no. 425 – maybe much religious ‘enthusiasm’ really comes from repressed homosexuality? Gay liberation might have as harmful effect on religious as freedom of thought and scientific progress. It’s a happy thought to take to bed. Alone. Obviously.
January 29th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
Oh Remigius, you are SUCH a naughty man! There’s vodka and orange all over my keyboard, and it came out my nose!
January 30th, 2009 at 8:16 am
Sorry, you can’t pray away the gay any more than you can pray away the straight. And the notion that you should even try is nothing more than BS fostered by bigots. No reputable mental health practitioner supports so-called “reparative therapy” or “conversion therapy”.
January 30th, 2009 at 9:21 am
Obviously this man is a hypocrite and he will give account on the judgement day. God sees everything, including the so called “secret sins”. I can assure Tony E that I do not have rude pictures.
January 30th, 2009 at 10:32 am
Now imagine if the leader of an atheist group “came out”, would there be all this arsing about?
January 30th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Sorry about the mess Barry, though I’m sure you keep a box of tissues next to the computer!
January 31st, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Her prayers probably made it more difficult for him to keep away from the sins of the flesh. Praying for people who are addicted actually makes them more likely to fall off the wagon. See:
Walker, S. R., Tonigan, J. S., Miller,W. R., Comer, S., & Kahlich, L. (1997).
Intercessory prayer in the treatment of alcohol dependence: A pilot
investigation. Alternative Therapies, 3, 79−86.