Mega-church weathers gay sex sndal | Rters

Contents:

• PASTOR TED HAGGARD FAC MORE GAY SEX ACCATNS
• I’M BLACK, I’M A MISTER AND I’M GAY, WHO ARE YOU TO JUDGE? | BENJAM CARLTON | TEDXJACKSONVILLE
• GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY
• TED CZ AND THE ANTI-GAY PASTOR
• MEGA-CHURCH WEATHERS GAY SEX SNDAL

PASTOR TED HAGGARD FAC MORE GAY SEX ACCATNS

(RNS) — Former Colorado megachurch pastor Ted Haggard, who fell om grace 2006 after a gay sex-and-dg sndal, is now facg some of the same allegatns at another church. Haggard went through a “spirual rtoratn” procs, and his wife, Gayle, wrote a book about the experience, lled “Why I Stayed. Haggard, once Ameri's leadg evangelil pastor, who was brought down and removed om his own mega-church after admtg to a gay sex sndal, has set up a new mistry and will hold the first service his new church wife, Gayle, who has stood by him throughout his troubl, will be the church's -pastor.

He also beme print of the Natnal Associatn of that all end 2006, when a gay prostute said Haggard had paid him for sex.

Haggard now says he is heterosexual, but had gay urg bee he was molted by a man when he was a Haggard says he wants gays and bisexuals to e to his new church, whose first few meetgs will be held the garn of his suburban home. If you are straight, gay or bisexual, I want to walk through the scriptur wh you, " Haggard told a prs nference last week to announce his church. Haggard's view of homosexualy – and his own actns – appear bound to annoy almost everybody.

I’M BLACK, I’M A MISTER AND I’M GAY, WHO ARE YOU TO JUDGE? | BENJAM CARLTON | TEDXJACKSONVILLE

Many gay rights activists are offend by his view that his actns were ed by child abe and that is possible to receive unsellg for havg same-sex sexual feelgs.

On the other hand, many evangelils are still outraged at his past nduct, and will be equally fur at his openly reachg out to gays, whom they believe are sng wh their sexualy. When asked what he would tell a gay person who me to St Jam, he said: "I would tell them to study the scriptur.

"But he nied that he thought homosexualy was forbidn the Bible, a mon belief among many nservative Christians. Ted Haggard, the former megachurch pastor who fell om grace amid a sex sndal, speaks durg a news nference Colorado Sprgs, Colorado, on June 2, 2010, wh his wife, Gayle, at his si. Former Colorado megachurch pastor Ted Haggard, who fell om grace 2006 after a gay sex-and-dg sndal, is now facg some of the same allegatns at another church.

GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY

Haggard’s wife, Gayle, wrote a book about their experience navigatg the sndal, tled “Why I Stayed.

There are plenty of church that accept out gay men. Not all gay men want partners who they n manipulate and who are unable to nsent. It’s clear he is a gay man tryg to preach, teach and live a liftyle he nnot or will not nform wh.

TED CZ AND THE ANTI-GAY PASTOR

DENVER – Disgraced evangelil lear Ted Haggard's former church disclosed Friday that the gay sex sndal that ed his downfall extends to a young male church volunteer who reported havg a sexual relatnship wh Haggard — a revelatn that as Haggard tri to repair his public Boyd, who succeed Haggard as senr pastor of the 10, 000-member New Life Church Colorado Sprgs, told The Associated Prs that the man me forward to church officials late 2006 shortly after a Denver male prostute claimed to have had a three-year sh-for-sex relatnship wh said an "overwhelmg pool of evince" poted to an "appropriate, nsensual sexual relatnship" that "went on for a long perd of time... Ted Cz, R-Texas, sparred wh a pastor on Twter over an anti-LGBTQ law Uganda, askg the fah lear if “you really believe" the Uned Stat' ernment "should execute every person who is gay? ”Cz last week lled the law, which impos the ath penalty for what lls "aggravated homosexualy" and tablish lifetime prison sentenc for people who engage gay sex, “horrific & wrong” on Twter.

”“Do you really believe that the US t should execute every person who is gay?? ""First, he asks, 'Do you really believe that the US t should execute every person who is gay? In 2016, Benjam Carlton ma the brave cisn to e out as a black gay mister a article that generated natnal discsn.

MEGA-CHURCH WEATHERS GAY SEX SNDAL

“I mented on our cy postg somethg about the gay pri month and I lerally was attacked by people who don’t even know me.

” David Bh, 61, a real tate veloper, said, “There’s a terrible misnceptn that Christians hate gay people.

“Any law crimalizg homosexualy or imposg the ath penalty for ‘aggravated homosexualy’ is grotque & an abomatn.

”Cz did not reply to Asl’s tweet, which certaly seemed to suggt that the executn of gay people had a biblil blsg. ”But even on reful readg, most reasonable people would assume Asl was suggtg that Uganda’s anti-gay law is not trsilly “horrific and wrong.

A cril number of evangelils may follow the pastor as be ever more clear that Tmp is void of any prcipl at all, harborg ntempt for everyone and loyalty to noneBut some more morate voters uld be sred away by DeSantis’ associatn wh a pastor who at least appeared to tweet scriptural support for executg gays and who unequivolly equat abortn wh ntract you try tellg that to God, Tom?. But Haggard, who has been an outspoken opponent of gay marriage, nied havg sex wh him. famoly anti-gay yet gay pastor, Ted Haggard, had a relatnship wh an 18-year old.

The assertns received wispread news verage and sparked charg of hypocrisy, particularly bee Haggard had nmned homosexual sex. " Asked whether he nsirs himself bisexual or gay, Haggard said that different therapists have scribed him different ways. "The first said, 'You are a heterosexual wh homosexual attachments.

In the article, the pastor adms that he was sexually molted at age 7, ed to watch gay porn and was a pulsive masturbator.

He says a therapist has scribed his sexualy as "heterosexual wh homosexual attachments. " While he n't speak for others, Ted says he feels that while he's not gay, he also do not f to "the normal box" people e to fe sexualy.