Thursday, November 02, 2006

Rev. Ted Haggard Resigns

This is amazing and really hard for me to comment on because I don't want to slander either man. Is this guy doing it to hurt Haggard's efforts or is Haggard attracted to men? I'm glad he resigned until the whole thing has been investigated:

The Rev. Ted Haggard resigned as president of the influential National Association of Evangelicals on Thursday after being accused of paying for sex with a man.

Haggard — who has been a leading opponent of the drive for same-sex marriage — also stepped aside as head of his 14,000-member New Life Church while a church panel investigates, saying he could "not continue to minister under the cloud created by the accusations."

The investigation came after a 49-year-old man told a Denver radio station that Haggard paid him to have sex nearly every month for three years.

Haggard, a married father of five, denied the allegations in an interview with KUSA-TV late Wednesday: "Never had a gay relationship with anybody, and I'm steady with my wife, I'm faithful to my wife."
Updated: More here.

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