If you know this story then you like me have to be saying…wow…wow! If you don’t here’s the build up:
Known as Pastor Ted, Mr. Haggard is the founder of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a founder of the Association of Life-Giving Churches and the President of the National Association of Evangelicals (a cooperative ministry for 300+ evangelical denominations of Protestant Christians in the United States). He speaks not only the WORD of GOD but THE word to 30+ million protestant Christians in the US (for those into math, that’s about 10% of this country). Colorado Springs has the highest concentration of evangelicals in the nation and is the “Mecca” so to speak for Christians touring the country, drawn to this epicenter of megachurches.
On November 2nd, 2006 a male hooker, Mike Jones, made allegations he maintained a three-year-long sexual relationship which included the used of methamphetamine during his visits with Jones. Subsequently he did not deny the accusations and resigned from all his posts within the Church and Association.
Attached is an unbelievably ironic clip from the documentary Jesus Camp of Ted Haggard commenting on his anti-gay stance:
Oh and by the way, he had weekly calls every Monday with Mr. Bush and some of his advisers, to advise the president on strengthening the evangelical movement in America… I guess hippocrates associate with other hippocrates.
