China Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 Disgraced pastor Ted Haggard faces new allegations Former Colorado megachurch pastor Ted Haggard, who fell from grace in 2006 after a gay sex-and-drug scandal, is now facing some of the same allegations at another church. Haggard, 66, is being accused of using methamphetamine and behaving inappropriately with young men at St. James Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a church he founded in 2010, The Denver Gazette reported. A onetime president of the National Association of Evangelicals, Haggard resigned from New Life Church in Colorado Springs in the wake of a scandal involving a Denver male prostitute. Haggard admitted at the time that he bought methamphetamine and paid the prostitute for massages. Later, it also emerged he’d had an inappropriate relationship with a young man at the megachurch he founded. Haggard went through a “spiritual restoration” process, and his wife, Gayle, wrote a book about the experience, called “Why I Stayed.” (New Life Church continues under the leadership of Brady Boyd.) The most recent allegations were made by Kirk “Seth” Sethman, who was ordained as a minister by St. James Church in 2012. Sethman recorded the statements of two young adult men who said Haggard touched them inappropriately on several occasions at the church. One of them was a minor at the time the touching began in 2019. Sethman said he first approached church elders with allegations about Haggard in 2020. Click on the link for the full article 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 Gosh, something about churches and the gullibility they must possess to keep letting these people in. it's almost like they believed in magic spooky dust and other assorted fairies. Hard to believe. I mean, unless he can bring in megabucks before he gets caught. ~Bang 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted July 27, 2022 Author Share Posted July 27, 2022 26 minutes ago, Bang said: Gosh, something about churches and the gullibility they must possess to keep letting these people in. it's almost like they believed in magic spooky dust and other assorted fairies. Hard to believe. I mean, unless he can bring in megabucks before he gets caught. ~Bang Apparently he can't do that anymore. From the article: Quote St. James has declined in membership in recent years and earlier this year sold its building. Haggard is still head pastor but has moved the church’s services and study sessions to his home and is now calling his new congregation the Storyhouse Church. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CousinsCowgirl84 Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 (edited) You think a straight guy would give up his right to have sex to join the church? Nope, only people who do are people who need to keep their sexual perversions a secret. realize this guy isn’t catholic, but just saying, more broadly. Edited July 27, 2022 by CousinsCowgirl84 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 I think your attempt to smear all people who become religious leaders is, well, disgusting? However, this particular person? Is he the one who got revealed as gay, and then got pronounced as "miraculously cured" or whatever phrase they used, like 4 hours after he signed all the church and assets over to the two priests who pronounced him cured? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Wiggles Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 35 minutes ago, Larry said: However, this particular person? Is he the one who got revealed as gay, and then got pronounced as "miraculously cured" or whatever phrase they used, like 4 hours after he signed all the church and assets over to the two priests who pronounced him cured? I don't think so. Haggard was found to have been paying at least one man for sex and meth. The New Life Church fired him. He runs a new church in that area now. I remember it being all over the news daily in Colorado then. His defense at one point was "Yeah I bought the meth but threw it away immediately". 😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sacks 'n' Stuff Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 1 hour ago, Larry said: Is he the one who got revealed as gay, and then got pronounced as "miraculously cured" or whatever phrase they used, like 4 hours after he signed all the church and assets over to the two priests who pronounced him cured? Here’s the video 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Wiggles Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 Yeah I don't think they even allow dancing in Colorado Springs. Here's New Life Worship the band of the New Life Church. Rock on 🤘🙄 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
86 Snyder Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 1 hour ago, Sacks 'n' Stuff said: Here’s the video Takes a lot of balls to claim straight conversion while wearing that outfit. (Not that there’s anything wrong that) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CousinsCowgirl84 Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 (edited) 4 hours ago, Larry said: I think your attempt to smear all people who become religious leaders is, well, disgusting? oh, certainly not all. But 50 percent of them, definitely, 75 percent probably. 4 hours ago, Larry said: he the one who got revealed as gay, and then got pronounced as "miraculously cured" or whatever phrase they used, like 4 hours after he signed all the church and assets over to the two priests who pronounced him cured? Well we have just went 3/3 on religious leaders who deserve to get smeared. Hmmm…. Shocking? I think not. Edited July 28, 2022 by CousinsCowgirl84 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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