Pastor In Gay Sex Scandal Pleads For Cash
by The Associated Press
Posted: August 25, 2007 - 11:00 am ET
(Colorado Springs, Colorado) The Rev. Ted Haggard, who left the megachurch he founded after admitting to "sexual immorality," has asked supporters for financial assistance while he and his wife pursue their studies.
The former New Life Church pastor plans to seek a master's degree in counseling at the University of Phoenix while his wife studies psychology, he said in an e-mail sent this week to KRDO-TV in Colorado Springs.
The couple and two of their sons planned to move Oct. 1 to the Phoenix Dream Center, a faith-based halfway house in Phoenix, where Haggard and his wife would provide counseling, the e-mail said.
"It looks as though it will take two years for us to have adequate earning power again, so we are looking for people who will help us monthly for two years," the e-mail said. "During that time we will continue as full-time students, and then, when I graduate, we won't need outside support any longer."
Haggard left the 10,000-member New Life Church late last year and resigned as head of the National Association of Evangelicals after a former male escort accused Haggard of paying him for sex.
Mike Ware, an overseer for New Life Church, told The Gazette of Colorado Springs on Friday that it was premature of Haggard to release the statement without first consulting the overseers.
A New Life spokesman did not immediately return a phone message left late Friday by The Associated Press.
Haggard received a salary of $115,000 for the 10 months he worked in 2006 and an $85,000 anniversary bonus before the scandal broke, The Gazette reported. Haggard's severance package included a year's salary of $138,000, and he collects royalties on his book titles, the newspaper reported.
El Paso County records show Haggard's home, which has been up for sale, has a market value of $715,051.
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Haggard Slapped By Church Overseers Over Cash Plea
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
Posted: August 30 2007 - 5:00 pm ET
(Denver, Colorado) Ted Haggard has been warned he has violated an agreement over his departure from the church he led after admitting he had an an affair and purchased drugs from a male prostitute.
Last week Haggard sent an email to KRDO-TV in Colorado Springs saying he would become a counselor at a faith-based halfway house in Phoenix and would need money while he and his wife pursue degrees. (story)
"It looks as though it will take two years for us to have adequate earning power again, so we are looking for people who will help us monthly for two years," the e-mail said. "During that time we will continue as full-time students, and then, when I graduate, we won't need outside support any longer."
When news of the email became public the overseers of the New Life Church arranged a meeting with Haggard on Wednesday.
New Life Church overseer Mike Ware in a statement following the meting in Denver said that Haggard was told "his plan and his communications about it were unacceptable."
The statement said that the overseers warned Haggard he had violated the terms of his departure as minister of the church. Specifically the agreement said that in return for a year's salary and continued support from the church he would leave the ministry and refrain fro publicly speaking about the hustler scandal.
The overseers' statement also disputed Haggard's claim he would provide counseling at the Dream Center.
"It was never the intention of the Dream Center that Mr. Haggard would provide any counsel or other ministry," the statement said.
Above censuring Haggard the statement from the overseers did not say if Haggard was punished further.
An outspoken critic of homosexuality Haggard was outed last year by former hustler Mike Jones in the days leading up to vote in Colorado to amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
The story broke when Jones brought tapes of conversations with Haggard to Denver TV station KUSA. Jones told the station that he had a long term pay for ex relationship with Haggard and had helped the pastor buy crystal meth.
After first denying the affair and drug purchase Haggard admitted both.
He was subsequently fired by the church and forced to resign as president of the National Association of Evangelicals, a position which had given him unbridled access to the White House. (story)
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I want some footage of inside "The Dream Center".
I bet it is a real train wreck of humanity. Ick.
Some of us are getting a little older. Some of us. I will try in the future to share "Comfort Secrets of the almost old and nearly infermed". Some of us are younger but just beaten down by the strain of the day. Do not be alarmed. It gets worse. I would like to now share a secret I have for feeling younger. It gets pretty hot so it won't be for everybody. If you choose to read ahead it will be of your own free will.
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I really use this. It doesn't smell bad. I actually enjoy it. I roll it down my neck and across my back. I outline my neck and Adam's Apple (if you have one ). I roll across my pectoral muscles and outline my collar bone and rub a few quick vertical rolls along my hairline in the back and down my neck. It may dribble a little but I just rub it in and wash my hands. Next I sit down. I rub the outline of my feet and then roll up the front of my legs. I try to stay vertical with the rolls but follow curves as I meet them. I dab the top of my feet. I then roll the sole of my foot and put on a fresh white sock. Then the other foot. I take two Tylenol, A Benadryl, drink a tall glass of sweet tea. Are you with me? Okay, as time passes you feel better and better and you want to stretch lightly and that feels outstanding. Great to do the feet before your morning shower. You will definately start the day off good. Oh, an have a Scotch at each step along the way. You feel like a kid again.The Benadryl with the Scotch are what really feels good. This stuff, well, it's okay.
Happy second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. I'm not seeing a whole lot of people who think the job is going well. We need to save our resources to rebuild that other place that we have obliterated. I am still hearing people on the news saying it wasn't their fault. Nagin, Blanco, Bush, Chertoff, Brownie. You guys are so right. You did not cause the storm. You just caused the resulting deaths of all the people abandoned, left for dead, and now screwed by the insurance industry. I would like to see Dubyah down there with a shovel, hammer, and swiffer. Get ya ass movin' boy. Time is a wastin". I'm not really sure why I expected more. You are by far more damaging than any storm. It's not so much your stupidity as it is the "bullshit surge" that has welled up 20 feet above tolerable level. Get your snorkels out. The President is about to speak. Don't forget to roll your sleeves up Dub. It looks more like you're working that way. Of course it's all smoke, and mirrors, and a big old fashioned clusterfuck. Just another little piece of history brought to us by the WORST, DUMBEST, MEGALOMANIACAL President of all time.
Now you have blood on your hands and mud on your hands. I am sure Mr. Photo - op will spend the day glad-handing the victims. Let's hope he remembers where he is. If he mentions Osama or Al Quaeda while he's doing his bit for the cameras I think I will puke. "When Osama brought this terrible devastation God came to me and said This is all Hillary's fault". Activist Judges have brought this devastation to Norleans. Hey "W", I am adding you to my list I like to call "THE AXIS OF WEASEL".
I painted this painting 18 years ago in Beverly Hills, California of my cat Donovan. I had Dexter and Donovan and they simply loved each other. His other daddy and I at some point soon thereafter lost that love for one another and to punish me and to rip Dexter's heart out he took Donovan and left. That was many years ago and I had little idea of Donovan's fate other than that I knew that "other daddy" loved him dearly and I just resigned myself to the fact that he needed the kitty to help get over our dissolved relationship.
I received a "forward" from a mutual friend the other day and shortly thereafter I got a response. He must have hit "reply all" instead of reply and it linked me to his blog. In his photo gallery I found on the opening page this following picture of my dear, little, old man cat Donovan. Dexter died almost six years ago at the ripe old age of 20. Donovan was only 4 or 5 years younger than Dexter so he is about Dex's age when he died. For whatever reason I was so happy to see him alive and well and a little bit old and craggy looking. He has had a good life and to replace Dexter's loss I got him Gulliver, Tater, Millie and Lolo. Here is my Donovan. I wonder if he would recognise me because I have had this painting on my wall since the last time I saw him. I took a quick snap of the painting and it came out bad but I assure you it looks exactly like him and the markings are a match. This is him and he's alive. I am happy just knowing that.
It's not quite like identical twin sisters being reunited after the Holocost, but it may be about as close to I get to that kind of emotional reunion...of sorts.
Another GOP Lawmaker Busted In Washroom
by The Associated Press
Posted: August 27, 2007 - 6:30 pm ET
(Minneapolis, Minnesota) US Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) pleaded guilty this month to misdemeanor disorderly conduct after being arrested at the Minneapolis airport.
A Hennepin County court docket showed Craig pleading guilty to the disorderly conduct charge Aug. 8, with the court dismissing a charge of gross misdemeanor interference to privacy.
The court docket said the Republican senator was fined $1,000, plus $575 in fees. He was put on unsupervised probation for a year. A sentence of 10 days in the county workhouse was stayed.
Craig, a social conservative, supported both attempts to advance a proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and opposes adding sexuality to the groups covered under hate crime laws and to a bill protecting LGBT workers.
Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper, which first reported the case, said on its Web site Monday that Craig was arrested June 11 by a plainclothes officer investigating complaints of lewd conduct in a men's restroom at the airport.
Craig said in a statement issued by his office that he was not involved in any inappropriate conduct.
"At the time of this incident, I complained to the police that they were misconstruing my actions," he said. "I should have had the advice of counsel in resolving this matter. In hindsight, I should not have pled guilty. I was trying to handle this matter myself quickly and expeditiously."
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These Republicans should just have a big "White Party" fundraiser for their party. It is like a Big Gay Rave with Gay men all dressed in white underpants gyrating to techno music and probably doing "E". It sounds like those conservatives are more worried about what we are doing than what THEY are doing. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!!!! BAM!
Another one bites the......dust? He pled guilty and now wants to change his plea. Fat chance you liar. You got caught with your hand down the cookie jar. If he loses his seat we'll have to see who his replacement is. Maybe RuPaul. Now he's denying it. Mitt Romney took him off his website as an endorser. Looks like this closet queen is having a coming out party. I guess the $500.00 fine and the ten day sentence don't mean anything Mr. Craig. You've lied your whole life. What's one more big fat lie. You should register as a sex offender for the rest of your life now. Move in with Ted Haggard and you two can diddle each other while your wives run the prayer circle.
Check with your local stations for updates!
Little gay boys don't fish. Especially with a Yarmulka and church shoes. Mom wouldn't approve. That outfit looks like Carson Kresley picked it out. Cuffed, bell bottomed overalls and a body wave. Hellooooo people! Gay!
Thank God it was "live" this year. Last year when they dragged the dead one around the stage all the little kids started crying. Pandemonium ensued and there was a stampede of Ladies and their pony-tailed daughters.
Oh good God. I wouldn't even let gay kids read this it's so gay. Also, what ever happened to Bill mom? Was he my twin and he died and nobody told me? I hope a couple named Bill and Mike sees this because I will frame it and mail it to them. I had the scanner going so I had to finally post this. Those dogs look a little light in the heels as well.
These are from a bunch of old post card books my mom had. These are from 1904. There are thousands of them from every holiday and every occasion. The Valentines ones are the best. I will post some regular ones again sometime. The stamps are probably worth a little. The cards are collectable but I enjoy looking at them because they remind me of my childhood. Not from 1904,lol, just because they were my moms. All from Albany, New York back in the day. Don't be a Gooseberry!
