The Rev. Ted Haggard emerged from three weeks of intensive counseling convinced he is "completely heterosexual" and told an oversight board that his sexual contact with men was limited to his accuser.
That is according to one of the disgraced pastor's overseers, who on Monday revealed new details about where Haggard has been and where he is headed.
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Heh. So, it wasn't really homosexuality at all, you see - not even bi-sexual. He just had an 'addiction' to sex and paid for a male (as opposed to female) prostitute.Haggard, 50, resigned as president of the National Association of Evangelicals and was fired from the church he built from nothing into a 14,000-member congregation after a former male prostitute in Denver alleged a three-year cash-for-sex relationship.
Haggard admitted to "sexual immorality" and a long battle against feelings contrary to his beliefs. He admitted buying methamphetamine but said he never used it. Haggard did not respond to interview requests.
Among other things, the overseers urged Haggard to enter a 12-step program for sexual addiction, Ware said.
Hm. He bought Meth and never used it. Doesn't this sound like, "Yes I used Pot, but I never inhaled?"
And oh, great - now Ted wants to get a degree in psychology. That's all this country needs, a shadier, dirtier, more arrogant version of James Dobson.
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It doesn't even match up with Haggard's initial statement that he's been struggling with homosexual desires all of his life. He's gay, and he can't balance out his life until he comes to terms with that.
That's right! I'd forgotten that he had said that.
Heh - why should we be surprised to think that someone who regularly denies reality as part of his job description would be able to accept reality in his own life?
Haggard's denial of homosexuality kind of scuttles any chance of him working for Exodus International, or speaking at the "Love Won Out" conferences. I think this sort of limits his future career possibilities. I had thought him a poster-child for ex-gay ministries due to this incident and since he is friends with James Dobson.
But he says he isn't gay, and never was gay, so anything he says in in the future in an ex-gay context should be immediately discounted as irrelevant, right?
I predict that he'll still speak or work (at least briefly) in an ex-gay setting. It fits his hypocritical MO.
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