Mega-church weathers gay sex sndal | Rters

Contents:

• HAGGARD FAC MORE GAY-SEX ACCATNS
• PASTOR TED HAGGARD FAC MORE GAY SEX ACCATNS
• TOP 5 ANTI-GAY MISTERS ACCED OF BEG HOMOSEXUAL
• PASTOR KICKED OUT OF CHURCH OVER GAY SEX AND DGS FAC H MISNDUCT ALLEGATNS
• PASTOR TED HAGGARD FAC NEW GAY SEX ALLEGATNS
• MEGA-CHURCH WEATHERS GAY SEX SNDAL
• FAMEWATCHER SEARCH PRIMARY MENU SKIP TO NTENT HOMECELEBRY HAIR TRANSPLANTCELEBRY PLASTIC SURGERYCELEBRY LEATHER JACKETBODY SHAPER SEARCH FOR: CELEBRY SNDALSTED HAGGARD SNDAL: REPUBLIN EVANGELIL PASTOR PAYS FOR GAY SEX

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.

PASTOR TED HAGGARD FAC MORE GAY SEX ACCATNS

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.

TOP 5 ANTI-GAY MISTERS ACCED OF BEG HOMOSEXUAL

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. He says a therapist has scribed his sexualy as "heterosexual wh homosexual attachments.

PASTOR KICKED OUT OF CHURCH OVER GAY SEX AND DGS FAC H MISNDUCT ALLEGATNS

" 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. " But Ted says was immediately after the sndal that he began to tell the tth fully, admtg everythg to his wife, Gayle. Gayle, Ted's wife of 30 years, heard about the accatns agast her hband the same way everyone else did—durg the terview Mike Jon gave on the rad November 2006.

Earlier their marriage, Gayle says Ted had told her that he stggled wh homosexual thoughts, but now—s to their marriage and five children later—she assumed he had those thoughts unr ntrol.

After the rad terview aired, Gayle and Ted went to their attorney's office, where Ted told her the unthkable. "He said, 'Gayle, part of this is te.

PASTOR TED HAGGARD FAC NEW GAY SEX ALLEGATNS

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In the days that followed, Ted says he me clean wh Gayle about his sexual immoraly and dg e. "I n't thk of anythg that would have been a greater shock to me, and, lerally, I felt as though the g had been pulled out om unr me, " Gayle says.

Through therapy, Gayle says she realized that her marriage wasn't a lie and that Ted's stggl were only one aspect of him and didn't take away om the life they had built together.

MEGA-CHURCH WEATHERS GAY SEX SNDAL

In a recent terview, Ted apologized to Mike and the gay muny for how he handled himself when the sndal broke. However, I nnot speak for the lns of proud gay men and women.

As a gay man who has fought for gay rights sce my early teens, ntually beg treated as a send-class cizen has never set well wh me. The announcement—and exile—hurt not jt Ted and Gayle. Ted says that while his actns may have been hypocril when he was a pastor, he did not engage hateful speech om the pulp agast homosexuals.

"Ted says he and Gayle, as church lears, ma their private liv more public than many others their posn.

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"See what happened wh Ted and Gayle after this terviewFd spiratn to start your spirual journey.

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 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.

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.

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... Bishop Eddie Long is not the first preacher who ranted agast homosexualy, who turn was acced of beg gay.

There have been several others, all who have been acced of rryg out homosexual affairs the bedroom, while ragg agast gays the pulp.

Here are 5 misters who preached agast homosexualy public yet were acced of dulgg homosexualy private. Gee Rekers is a baptist mister and one of the Christian Right’s most proment anti-gay activists. He was on the board for the Natnal Associatn for Rearch & Therapy of Homosexualy, which tri to fd ways to “cure” homosexualy and ttified as a state wns favor of Florida’s gay adoptn ban trial.