Haggard Is “Cured”
After three weeks of intensive counseling by four ministers Ted Haggard is now ”completely heterosexual.”
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Haggard also said his sexual contact with men was limited to the former male prostitute who came forward with sexual allegations, the Rev. Tim Ralph of Larkspur told The Denver Post for a story in Tuesday’s edition.
”He is completely heterosexual,” Ralph said. ”That is something he discovered. It was the acting-out situations where things took place. It wasn’t a constant thing.”
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Ralph said the board spoke with people close to Haggard while investigating his claim that his only extramarital sexual contact happened with Mike Jones. The board found no evidence to the contrary.
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”If we’re going to be proved wrong, somebody else is going to come forward, and that usually happens really quickly,” he said. ”We’re into this thing over 90 days and it hasn’t happened.”
Haggard stepped down as president of the National Association of Evangelicals last year following allegations that he had sex with and used methamphetamine with Jones, a (former?) male prostitute (who recently visited Haggard’s former church, btw).
James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, commented late last year to Larry King that it could take four or five years to turn Haggard into an ex-gay. No wonder they used four ministers.
NOT!!
[…] The Rev. Ted Haggard reports that his rehabilitation toward heterosexuality has been successful. The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force responded: “Haggard should be seeking forgiveness for the way he used the Bible to bash gay people, the way he warped and damaged young people in his ‘Jesus Camps,’ the way he shamelessly mixed religion and politics for personal and partisan gain, and for defaming Mike Jones,” said Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. “Instead, he’s doing what all these preachers do when they get caught with their pants down — they make themselves the victims of a personal failing.” […]
[…] It looks like even the ex-gays are doubting Haggard’s “return to heterosexuality.” […]