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Is it a weird news day or what?Haggard Pronounced ‘Completely Heterosexual’By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: February 6, 2007
Filed at 9:59 a.m. ETDENVER (AP) -- One of four ministers who oversaw three weeks of
intensive counseling for the Rev. Ted Haggard said the disgraced
minister emerged convinced that he is ''completely heterosexual.''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.''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.''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 resigned as president of the National Association of
Evangelicals last year after allegations of sexual misconduct
surfaced. He was also forced out from the 14,000 New Life Church
that he founded years ago in his basement after Jones alleged
Haggard paid him for sex and sometimes used methamphetamine
when they were together. Haggard, who is married, has publicly
admitted to ''sexual immorality.''Haggard said in an e-mail Sunday, his first communication in three
months to church members, that he and his wife, Gayle, plan to
pursue master's degrees in psychology. The e-mail said the family
hasn't decided where to move but that they were considering
Missouri and Iowa.Another oversight board member, the Rev. Mike Ware of
Westminster, said the group recommended the move out of town
and the Haggards agreed.''This is a good place for Ted,'' Ware said. ''It's hard to heal in
Colorado Springs right now. It's like an open wound. He needs to
get somewhere he can get the wound healed.''It was also the oversight board that strongly urged Haggard to go
into secular work.
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"It was done only for political reasons only anyway. "
"It was done only for political reasons only anyway. "
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Is it a weird news day or what?Haggard Pronounced ‘Completely Heterosexual’By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: February 6, 2007
Filed at 9:59 a.m. ETDENVER (AP) -- One of four ministers who oversaw three weeks of
intensive counseling for the Rev. Ted Haggard said the disgraced
minister emerged convinced that he is ''completely heterosexual.''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.''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.''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 resigned as president of the National Association of
Evangelicals last year after allegations of sexual misconduct
surfaced. He was also forced out from the 14,000 New Life Church
that he founded years ago in his basement after Jones alleged
Haggard paid him for sex and sometimes used methamphetamine
when they were together. Haggard, who is married, has publicly
admitted to ''sexual immorality.''Haggard said in an e-mail Sunday, his first communication in three
months to church members, that he and his wife, Gayle, plan to
pursue master's degrees in psychology. The e-mail said the family
hasn't decided where to move but that they were considering
Missouri and Iowa.Another oversight board member, the Rev. Mike Ware of
Westminster, said the group recommended the move out of town
and the Haggards agreed.''This is a good place for Ted,'' Ware said. ''It's hard to heal in
Colorado Springs right now. It's like an open wound. He needs to
get somewhere he can get the wound healed.''It was also the oversight board that strongly urged Haggard to go
into secular work.
–--
"It was done only for political reasons only anyway. "
"It was done only for political reasons only anyway. "
