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Ted Haggard found the New Life Church in 1984. Locals often refer to it as "6 Flags Over Jesus" due to its enormous size and bizarrely large number of flags out front. Attendance has been very down since Ted's fall from grace.  
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Ted Haggard founded the New Life Church in 1984. Locals often refer to it as "6 Flags Over Jesus" due to its enormous size and bizarrely large number of flags out front. Attendance has been very down since Ted's fall from grace.
  
 
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Revision as of 04:20, 21 January 2012

Evangelicals have the best sex life of any group.
—Ted Haggard
Sorry guys, he is definitely not gay.

Ted Haggard was the heterosexual head of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In 2007 Haggard was exposed as a methamphetamine user and a regular customer of Denver's male prostitutes, even though he's not gay. We must assume that money the faithful gave him was never used in this way. After a month of intensive "therapy", he was pronounced "100% heterosexual" and announced that he was going for a master's degree at the University of Phoenix. He is not gay.

The reason Ted Haggard chose the homosexual lifestyle (but he's not gay) is that Satan has a presence in the Church, which is why people can still have impure thoughts in church. Even though Satan can find his way into the Church, rest assured, there is no way that Satan found his way into the Bible long ago and twisted the whole book, because the Bible says so: (Prov.30:5) Every word of God is pure: He is a shield unto them that put their trust in Him. He is not gay.

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New Life Church

Ted Haggard founded the New Life Church in 1984. Locals often refer to it as "6 Flags Over Jesus" due to its enormous size and bizarrely large number of flags out front. Attendance has been very down since Ted's fall from grace.

Update

There is nothing at all gay about this image.

Rev. Haggard has apparently left the "restoration" process before it was complete, because he's totally not gay.[1] He has been advised to seek secular work and is studying to be a counsellor. We must pity his secular victims.[2] He's not gay.

In 2007 Haggard begged the gullible public for money to finance himself and his wife while studying online and moved with her into rehabilitation. He asked donations to be sent to a tax exempt organisation that was dissolved several months previously. His resources include:-

  1. $85,000 anniversary bonus given before the scandal,
  2. $115,000 for the 10 months he worked,
  3. $138,000 in severance,
  4. $700,000 for the hovel mansion where he lives,
  5. Unknown amount in royalties for the morally uplifting books he wrote.

Post-scandal career

After losing his credibility and all possibility of continuing his ministerial career, Haggard has had to build a new life for himself in the secular world, despite not being gay. The path he seems to have chosen, according to his personal website, is the shady world of life insurance sales.[3] His business model bears a scary resemblance to pyramid selling and other such get-rich-quick scams out there on the internet, proving once and for all that life in the church really does give you an education in parting the gullible from their cash. By the way, he's not gay.

Haggard is soon to appear on the new reality television series Celebrity Wife Swap[4]

Trivia

Ted Haggard attempting to molest Richard Dawkins.[5]

Scandals aside, there is good evidence that Mr. Haggard was an extremely bad, though non-gay, man. When meeting with a ten-year-old with aspirations of becoming a Christian preacher, Haggard mocked the child's speaking skills, informing the child that he could trade on his youth and enthusiasm until he gained some "real material".[6]

By sheer coincidence, Ted Haggard is also the lovely, heterosexual and slightly opinionated preacher that briefly appeared and was interviewed by Dawkins in the documentary The Root of All Evil,[7] which was filmed in early 2006 before the scandal. Also he's not gay.

He's not gay

Seriously, he's not.

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Footnotes

  1. Ted Haggard Quits New Life 'Restoration Team'
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Haggard#Since_leaving_the_church
  3. Haggard's website on his new career.
  4. Los Angeles Times
  5. He's not gay.
  6. In Jesus Camp, the documentary film, Haggard mocks the young Levi in this fashion.
  7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO-g8FsmvGA


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